Editing Perkin Warbeck (section)

==Early life==
Perkin Warbeck's personal history is fraught with many unreliable and varying statements.<ref>Gairdner, James, p. 263</ref> Warbeck said that he was [[Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York|Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York]], the younger son of King Edward IV, who had [[Princes in the Tower|disappeared mysteriously]] along with his brother [[Edward V]] after [[Richard III of England|Richard, Duke of Gloucester]], succeeded to the throne as King Richard III following the death of King Edward IV, his eldest brother, in 1483. After Warbeck was captured and interrogated in 1497 under the eye of King Henry VII, another version of his life was published, based on his confession. This confession is considered by many historians to be possibly only partially true as it was procured under duress.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} 

According to the confession, Warbeck was born to a woman called Katherine de Faro, wife of John Osbeck (also known as Jehan de Werbecque).<ref>Gairdner, James, p. 266</ref> Osbeck was Flemish and held the occupation of [[comptroller]] to the city of [[Tournai]], in present-day [[Belgium]].<ref name="Ure, Peter, ed., p. lxxxviii">Ure, Peter, ed., p. lxxxviii</ref> 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.<ref name="Gairdner, James, p. 267">Gairdner, James, p. 267</ref> Around the age of ten, he was taken to [[Antwerp]] by his mother to learn [[Dutch language|Dutch]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} From there, he was undertaken by several masters around Antwerp and [[Middelburg, Zeeland|Middelburg]] before being employed by a local English merchant named John Strewe for a few months <ref name="Gairdner, James, p. 267"/> where he traded cloth.<ref>Tillbrook, Michael. ''The Tudors: England 1485–1603''. Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 6 {{ISBN?}}</ref>

After his time in the Netherlands, Warbeck yearned to visit other countries and was hired by a [[Bretons|Breton]] merchant.<ref name="Ure, Peter, ed., p. lxxxviii"/> This merchant eventually brought Warbeck to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Kingdom of Desmond|Ireland]], in 1491 when he was about 17, and there he learned to speak English.<ref name="Ure, Peter, ed., p. lxxxviii"/> Warbeck then claims that upon seeing him dressed in silk clothes, some of the citizens of Cork who were [[Yorkists]] demanded to do "him the honour as a member of the Royal House of York."<ref name="Gairdner, James, p. 267"/> He said they did this because they were resolved on gaining revenge on the King of England; they decided that he would claim to be the younger son of the late King Edward IV.<ref name="Gairdner, James, p. 267"/>