Michael to Gof

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Memorial plaque in Cornish and English for Michael Joseph An Gof and Thomas Flamank on the north side of Blackheath-Angers, southeast of London, near the south entrance to Greenwich Park.

Michael An Gof ( Cornish : Mighal Josep an Gov; also: Michael Joseph; An Gof or An Gov means "the blacksmith") (* unknown; † June 24, 1497 in Tyburn ) led the Cornish uprising of 1497 together with Thomas Flamank on.

The insurgents marched to London to protest the tax Henry VII was levying to finance the punitive expedition against Scotland that he planned to undertake because of the Scottish support of Perkin Warbeck .

According to English law at the time, the leaders of the uprising were hanged, gutted and quartered as traitors .

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SURNAME Michael to Gof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English rebel leader
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1497
Place of death Tyburn