Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Perkin WARBECK
  • Sex: M
  • Death: 23 Nov 1499 in Tyburn d


    • Parents:

Family:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p[0-9]*].
  3. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP IV p[0-9]*].

Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: SP IV p530]
21 Nov 1499 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)],
place:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]
Sources with Information about marriage to Catherine GORDON
date:
[Ref: SP IV p530]
first marriage of Catherine [Ref: Burke Peerage p1056]
Research Notes:
claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the young princes who were said to be slain in the Tower [Ref: SP IV p530]

1491: surfaced in Ireland, where he claimed to be Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. Afterwards invited to France by King Charles VIII, and in 1492 went to Flanders, where Margaret, duchess dowager of Burgandy, received him as her nephew. [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

1494: Maximillian, King of the Romans, recognized him as King of England [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

Nov 1495: King James IV of Scotland received him at Stirling, and measures were planned for invading England [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

Jul 1497: rebels in Cornwall invited him to land there; was proclaimed King Richard IV, but was soon captured at Bealieu, Hampshire, by King Henry VII's forces [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

made a full confession of his imposture; he was released and kept in the king's court [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

Jun 1499: made an attempt to escape, but was quickly captured; in 1499 formed an absurd plot to seize the Tower; tried and condemmed [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]

hanged at Tyburn 21 Nov 1499 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p465(21)]



Pedigree of Perkin WARBECK
Perkin WARBECK



Descendants of Perkin WARBECK
1. Perkin WARBECK m. Catherine GORDON
m. Catherine GORDON father: Sir George GORDON, Earl Of Huntley mother: Elizabeth HAY