Humphrey Arundell

Humphrey Arundell

Sir Humphrey Arundell (b. c. 1513 - 27 January 1550) was executed at Tyburn, London, Middlesex, England. He was born at Helland, Bodmin in Cornwall and was an experienced soldier and the leader of the Cornish rebellion of 1549, which is also known as the Prayer Book Rebellion. His maternal grandfather had been involved in the Perkin Warbeck rising against Henry VII in 1497. On the death of his parents in 1536 he inherited large estates in both Devon and Cornwall. In 1549 Arundell became leader of the Cornish army which assembled first at Bodmin and was involved in the Prayer Book Rebellion against Edward VI. Previously he had been in charge of a small garrison on St Michaels Mount, which had defected to the rebels at the start of the campaign.

During the 1549 siege of Exeter Arundell and his troops had little artillery and had taken some small calibre guns from Plymouth and other forts of the King, including those on St Michael's Mount, St Mawes Castle, Pendennis Castle, and Trematon Castle. The Cornishmen outside the walls of Exeter made the statement "and so we Cornishmen, whereof certain of us understand no English, utterly refuse this new English".

At Sampford Courtenay Arundell led a large contingent of rebels from the rear throwing the Royal troops into confusion. The rebels were forced to make another stand at Okehampton, before falling back to Launceston, where he was finally overpowered and imprisoned in the castle. On 19 Aug he was transferred to Rougemont Castle dungeons, Exeter, before being taken with other rebels to the Tower of London in September. In November 1549 Arundell was taken to Westminster Hall where he was found guilty of high treason and condemned to be taken back to the Tower and later hung, drawn and quartered. Humphrey Arundell was executed on 27 Jan 1550 and the estates of the ringleaders were distributed to those who had served the King in the rising. Sir Gawen Carew received most of Humprey Arundell's lands.

Other Cornish leaders of the previous Cornish Rebellion of 1497, Thomas Flamank, Michael An Gof and James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley had also previously been executed at Tyburn, London in 1497.

ee also

*Prayer Book Rebellion

External links

* [http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Prayer.htm Prayer Book Rebellion]


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