Warbeck was proclaimed King Richard IV in Bodmin but Henry had little difficulty crushing the uprising.

A more serious menace was Perkin Warbeck, a Flemish youth who posed as Edward IV's son Richard.

Perkin Warbeck ( circa 1474 – 23 November 1499 ) was a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England.

By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the Princes in the Tower, Warbeck was a significant threat to the newly established Tudor Dynasty, and gained support outside England.

According to the confession, Warbeck was born to a man called John Osbeck ( also known as Jehan de Werbecque ).

These family ties are backed up by several municipal archives of Tournai which mention most of the people whom Warbeck declared he was related to.

After his time in the Netherlands, Warbeck yearned to visit other countries and was hired by a Breton merchant.

This merchant eventually brought Warbeck to Cork, Ireland in 1491 when he was about seventeen, and it was here that he learnt to speak English.

Henry complained to Philip of Habsburg, Duke of Burgundy, about the harbouring of Warbeck, and, since he was ignored, imposed a trade embargo on Burgundy, cutting off important Burgundian trade-links with England.

Warbeck's small army was routed and 150 of the pretender ’ s troops were killed without Warbeck even disembarking.

Warbeck was well received by James IV of Scotland who realised that his presence gave him international leverage.

Warbeck was permitted to marry James's distant cousin, Lady Catherine Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly.

A red, gold and silver banner was made for Warbeck as the Duke of York ; James's armour was gilded and painted ; and the royal artillery was prepared.

Warbeck proclaimed that he would put a stop to extortionate taxes levied to help fight a war against Scotland and was warmly welcomed.

Warbeck was captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire where he surrendered.

Warbeck was imprisoned, first at Taunton, then at the Tower of London, where he was " paraded through the streets on horseback amid much hooting and derision of the citizens ".

Warbeck was held in the Tower alongside Edward, Earl of Warwick.

Captured once again, on 23 November 1499, Warbeck was drawn on a hurdle from the Tower to Tyburn, London, where he read out a confession and was hanged.

Warbeck also promised that if he died before becoming king, his claim would fall to Maximilian.

Clothes were also made for her companion, Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of Perkin Warbeck.

During 1936-37 he also played Mr Horner in The Country Wife, Orlando in As You Like It, Warbeck in The Witch of Edmonton and Laertes to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet.

* Davey Warbeck, Emily's husband, a distinguished writer and critic, and also a hypochondriac who undergoes unusual remedies for the sake of his health

The term " pretender " applies not only to claimants with arguably genuine rights to the throne ( as the various pretenders of the Wars of the Roses ) who regarded the de facto monarch as a usurper, but also to impostors with wholly fabricated claims ( as pretenders to Henry VII's throne Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck ).

The film also features a small role by future cult actor David Warbeck.

* David Warbeck as Nolan, John's best friend, also an Irish nationalist ; appears only in flashbacks.

In 1493 Poynings was acting as deputy or governor of Calais ; in July he was sent with Warham on a mission to Archduke Philip to gain Perkin Warbeck's expulsion from Burgundy, where he had been welcomed by the dowager duchess Margaret ; the envoys obtained from Philip a promise that he would abstain not aid Warbeck, but the duke asserted that he could not control the actions of the duchess, who was the real ruler of the country.

On 3 July 1495, funded by Margaret of Burgundy, Warbeck landed at Deal in Kent, hoping for a show of popular support.

Warbeck's story subsequently attracted writers — most notably by the dramatist John Ford, who dramatized the story in his play Perkin Warbeck, first performed in the 1630s.

Directed by Justin Hardy, it starred Mark Umbers as Warbeck.

* Warbeck was portrayed by British actor Richard Warwick in the 1972 BBC television series The Shadow of the Tower.

* Warbeck and his wife are characters in the novel The Crimson Crown by Edith Layton ( 1990 ).

* Warbeck is mentioned by Jennifer, the heroine of Judith McNaught's 1989 novel A Kingdom of Dreams.

It was directed by Justin Hardy and starred Sally Edwards as Lady Margaret, opposite Paul Hilton as Henry VII, Mark Umbers as Warbeck, and Nadia Cameron Blakey as Elizabeth of York.

Warbeck was probably an imposter, and would be locked up in the Tower of London and subsequently executed by Henry VII.

Ferdinand was especially aware that Tudor rule was threatened by various pretenders, most notably Perkin Warbeck, and sent Pedro de Ayala as ambassador in Scotland, where Warbeck had found support.

Illustrated by Cheryl Ives, it was written by Kent historian Dr Robert Hume, who had previously authored books about Christopher Columbus and Perkin Warbeck.

The castle was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.

The music score for the first five series was done by Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, who was nominated for a BAFTA for " Prime Suspect " series one.

In the 1490s, Perkin Warbeck, a Pretender for the English crown, claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, but he is generally considered to have been an impostor, and was labeled thus by the Tudor regime.

In 1496, the pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck was married to Catherine Gordon at Huntly Castle, an act witnessed by King James IV of Scotland.

This evokes in John memories of a similar betrayal by Nolan ( David Warbeck ), his best friend, whom John kills for informing.

Another hit album was the score from Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Stephen Warbeck.

The castle was said to have been badly damaged during the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 when Perkin Warbeck and 6, 000 Cornishmen entered the city, and by 1600 it was said to display " gaping chinks and an aged countenance.