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The Cornish rebels were also concerned with the use of the English language in the new prayer book. The language-map of Cornwall at this time is quite complicated, but philological studies have suggested that the Cornish language had been in territorial retreat throughout the Middle Ages. [ 16 ]
William's unusual generosity of terms at Exeter may have been due to the need to bring the West Country under his control. [8] Antiquary William Hals speculated that Condor, the pre-Conquest Earl of Cornwall who had sworn fealty to William for his earldom, may have supported the rebels at Exeter, and was deprived of his earldom for this. [21]
The name of Cornwall's rugby league team, the Cornish Rebels, was inspired by the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. In 2017 Peabody Trust/Family Mosaic unveiled a memorial sundial bench to commemorate the battle in Deptford. The memorial was designed and made by London mosaic artist Gary Drostle.
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. [ 1 ] 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 ...
Humphrey Arundell (c. 1513 – 27 January 1550) of Helland in Cornwall, was the leader of Cornish forces in the Prayer Book Rebellion early in the reign of King Edward VI. He was executed at Tyburn, London after the rebellion had been defeated.
Once again, the battle might have been won for the Cornish and West Devonians had they possessed any cavalry. [1] Contemporary Exeter historian John Hooker wrote that the rebel army would not surrender until most of their number had been slain or captured. Lord John Russell was quoted that his army had killed between five and six hundred enemy ...
The Cornish rebels were defeated by the King's forces at the Battle of Deptford Bridge on 17 June 1497 on a site adjacent to the River Ravensbourne. Michael fled to Greenwich after the battle, but was captured and sent to the Tower of London. As one of the leaders, Michael An Gof was executed with Flamank on 27 June 1497.
William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120, says that in about 927, King Æthelstan of England expelled the Cornish from Exeter and fixed Cornwall's eastern boundary at the River Tamar. T. M. Charles-Edwards dismisses William's account as an "improbable story" on the ground that Cornwall was by then firmly under English control. [35]