10 Facts About Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel was pardoned because of his tender years, and was thereafter employed by the royal household as a scullion.

Lambert Simnel tutored the boy in courtly manners and contemporaries described the boy as handsome.

Lambert Simnel was taught the necessary etiquette and was well educated by Simon.

Lambert Simnel was merely a commonplace tool to be used for important ends, and the attempt to overthrow Henry VII would have taken place had Simnel never existed.

Lambert Simnel took Simnel to Ireland where there was still support for the Yorkist cause, and presented him to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, the Earl of Kildare.

Lambert Simnel was paraded through the streets, carried on the shoulders of "the tallest man of the time", an individual called D'Arcy of Platten.

Lambert Simnel fled to Burgundy, where Warwick's aunt Margaret of York, the Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, kept her court.

Lambert Simnel met Viscount Lovell, who had supported a failed Yorkist uprising in 1486.

King Henry pardoned young Lambert Simnel and put him to work in the royal kitchen as a spit-turner.

Lambert Simnel seems to have married, as he is probably the father of Richard Simnel, a canon of St Osyth's Priory in Essex during the reign of Henry VIII.