*This is the title of a chapter from The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley. Without the aid of this invaluable book I would never have been able to write this post…
Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com
The Gelderland Document is a unique, tantalising and quite astonishing document that was discovered back in the 1950s in the Gelderland Archives situated in the Netherlands. It was sent by Mr P J Mey, The Master of the Charters, to Dutch historian Professor Diederick Enklaar at the University of Utrecht for his perusal and appraisal. Unfortunately the Professor appears to have given it scant interest, remarking ‘Is the case of the false York ‘Perkin Warbeck’ not already sufficiently known?” (1). Yikes! Perhaps he was busy with other things that day. Due to Professor Enklaar’s rather lacklustre response it appears Mr Mey became disheartened, with the result that this intriguing document was once again stored away, without any further appraisement and its existence forgotten about up until recently. Now thanks to a member of Philippa Langley’s Dutch Research team – Nathalie Nijman-Bliekendaal – it has now re-emerged once again and given the attention it deserves. Philippa, who spearheaded the search and recovery of the remains of Richard III, has given an in depth assessment of the document with researcher Nathalie in her book ‘The Princes in the Tower’ which I would recommend to anyone with an open mind who is willing to cast aside old outdated beliefs and who wants to delve further into the fates of the missing princes and explore the very real likelihood that they both survived the reign of their uncle Richard III. However back to the document which, fortunately being located in the Netherlands, was thus out of reach of Henry VII’s Human Shredders I give here just a brief résumé of its contents:
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