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Since Edward V was born November 4, 1470 and the Battle of Stoke Field was on June 16, 1487, it seems highly unlikely that Lambert Simnel was born in either 1476 or 1477 as no one is going to take a ten- or eleven-year-old boy for a teen of sixteen. |
Since Edward V was born November 4, 1470 and the Battle of Stoke Field was on June 16, 1487, it seems highly unlikely that Lambert Simnel was born in either 1476 or 1477 as no one is going to take a ten- or eleven-year-old boy for a teen of sixteen. |
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Likewise, I find it difficult to believe that a ten-year-old kid was on the battlefield at Stoke as even the nominal leader of the rebellion against royal authority. All in all, I think the evidence indicates that Simnel had been at the very least fourteen at the time of Stoke and thus had been born no later than 1473 and perhaps as early as 1470. |
Likewise, I find it difficult to believe that a ten-year-old kid was on the battlefield at Stoke as even the nominal leader of the rebellion against royal authority. All in all, I think the evidence indicates that Simnel had been at the very least fourteen at the time of Stoke and thus had been born no later than 1473 and perhaps as early as 1470. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:HistoryBuff14|HistoryBuff14]] ([[User talk:HistoryBuff14|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/HistoryBuff14|contribs]]) 22:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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Birth and Death Dates
Contrary to the wiki article, Michael J. Bennett's entry for Simnel in the Oxford DNB says he was born 1476/7, and died after 1534 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25569?_fromAuth=1). Cited as evidence is Vergil, who reports that Simnel was still alive at the time of writing, 1534 --131.111.247.135 (talk) 18:49, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
--The article states that:
“In 1996 an article was published claiming that Simnel was really King Edward V, the older of the Princes in the Tower. This is highly unlikely, although it did put forward some significant evidence that this was really the identity claimed by Simnel, not the identity of the Earl of Warwick.'
Since Edward V was born November 4, 1470 and the Battle of Stoke Field was on June 16, 1487, it seems highly unlikely that Lambert Simnel was born in either 1476 or 1477 as no one is going to take a ten- or eleven-year-old boy for a teen of sixteen.
Likewise, I find it difficult to believe that a ten-year-old kid was on the battlefield at Stoke as even the nominal leader of the rebellion against royal authority. All in all, I think the evidence indicates that Simnel had been at the very least fourteen at the time of Stoke and thus had been born no later than 1473 and perhaps as early as 1470. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryBuff14 (talk • contribs) 22:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)