Second Cornish uprising of 1497

Second Cornish uprising

Date	4 October 1497
Location	Whitesand Bay
Result	Royal victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of England

Cornish gentry and Yorkists

Commanders and leaders

Henry VII

Giles, Lord Daubeny

Perkin Warbeck

as 'Richard IV'

Strength

6,000

The Second Cornish uprising occurred in September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships.

Warbeck had seen the potential of the Cornish unrest in the First Cornish rebellion of 1497 even though the Cornish had been defeated at the Battle of Deptford Bridge on 17 June 1497. Warbeck proclaimed that he would put a stop to extortionate taxes levied to help fight a war against Scotland and was warmly welcomed in Cornwall. His wife, Lady Catharine, was left in the safety of St Michael's Mount and when he decided to attack Exeter his supporters declared him ‘Richard IV’ on Bodmin Moor.^[1] Most of the Cornish gentry supported Warbeck's cause after their setback previously in June of that year and on 17 September a Cornish army some 6,000 strong entered Exeter, where the walls were badly damaged, before advancing on Taunton.^[2]

Henry VII sent his chief general, Giles, Lord Daubeney, to attack the Cornish and when Warbeck heard that the King's scouts were at Glastonbury he panicked and deserted his army. Warbeck was captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire, where he surrendered. Henry VII reached Taunton on 4 October 1497, where he received the surrender of the remaining Cornish army. The ringleaders were executed and others fined an enormous total of £13,000. 'King Richard' was imprisoned, first, at Taunton, then in London, where he was ‘paraded through the streets on horseback amid much hooting and derision of the citizens’.^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

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References

^ Cornwall timeline 1497 Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ Cornwall, Philip Payton (1996), Fowey: Alexander Associates
^ Channel 4 - Perkin Warbeck
^ Perkin Warbeck Archived 2007-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ Bodmin - Centre of three Cornish uprisings

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Key figures

Monarchs	Henry VI Edward IV Edward V Richard III Henry VII
Lancaster Tudor	Margaret of Anjou , Queen of England Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick³ James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford Thomas Ros, 9th Baron Ros John Neville, Baron Neville² John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu³ Thomas Neville, Bastard of Fauconberg³ Andrew Trollope Owen Tudor Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford⁵ Jasper Tudor , Earl of Pembroke⁵ Elizabeth Woodville , Queen of England⁴ Lady Margaret Beaufort Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham⁴ George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange William Stanley Edward Woodville, Lord Scales
York	Anne Neville , Queen of England Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence¹ Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury William Neville, Earl of Kent Thomas Neville John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings William Stanley Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy

Battles

v t e Cornish nationalism
Politics	Nationalism Devolution Constitutional status
Political parties	Mebyon Kernow Cornish Nationalist Party
Political establishments	Cornish Assembly Cornish Stannary Parliament revived
History	1497 Uprising 1497 Second Uprising 1549 Rebellion Constitutional status Michael An Gof Thomas Flamank Devolution
Other organisations	An Gof Cornish Constitutional Convention Cornish National Liberation Army Cornish Solidarity Cornwall 2000
Figures	John Angarrack Cecil Beer Loveday Carlyon Helena Charles Dick Cole Loveday Jenkin Richard Jenkin Philip Payton Pedyr Prior James Whetter
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