An 'Aha' moment

​In studying the Wars of the Roses, I have come to realize that some of the Newburghs may have left Dorset by the time Henry VII took the throne.  There is a fantastic video that discusses research about the Princes in the Tower by Phillipa Langley.  She originally discovered Richard III was buried under a modern car park, that had been the cemetery of a convent when he died.  Phillipa has researched European archives seeking clues to the possibility that the Princes actually survived and were secreted away for the Tower of London and continued to live - as opposed to what current British history claims - that Richard III had his nephews killed. 

When Henry VII took the throne he took pains to have a lot of documents destroyed. As the old saying goes, the victors write the history but he couldn’t touch those written in outside of England and filed in various archives across Europe.  Phillipa has done her due diligence and proven they continued to live, and that Richard (son of Edward IV) was actually the man Henry VII called Perkin Warbeck.

 So much political strife occurred between 1485 and 1495, much of which was unrecorded in England to protect the Tudors.  One fact that I was reminded of was that many Yorkists fled to Ireland where they were welcomed and supported.  Many of the 15th century Newburghs died between 1485 and 1495.  John Jr.’s sons died 1485 and 1491, but there are no death documents for them.  Was it because of their Yorkist sympathies?  Many Yorkists fled to Ireland and were on hand when Richard aka Perkin Warbeck began his quest to win back the throne of England.  His aunt Margaret of Burgundy and the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian, were amassing armies and a navy to help him. 

One other thought, is this why in Devon, the name of the Newburgh family seems to have morphed becoming Newbery and why they are so hard to track? I still need to get a copy of the Roy Rolls, which I believe will help to tell the truth.  Original records are always preferable to those published in history books.