The War of the Roses

The idea that you don't actually need a real claimant to the throne at all just makes something up. Henry was very lucky in that his obvious competitor had died on Bosworth Field and had had no offspring. Lincoln was a possibility but someone more obvious would be much better. Lovell and Lincoln identified Oxford as a suitable place to look for a pretender. They'd turned up someone there to help them, a priest called William Simmons. All hiding out in the fells of North West England in Cumberland seems to have got words somehow to Simmons. Someone duly turned up there, a young lad about the right age and without a father called Lambert Simnall.