Now, all of this is relevant to Humpty Dumpty is that Richard suffered from scoliosis and was a hunchback.Īdditionally, his horse was allegedly called ‘Wall’. Thereafter he usurped the throne, but he did not go unchallenged in this and Henry Tudor, a Welsh upstart, overthrew him in 1485 by defeating Richard in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The assumption is Richard had his two young nephews killed. Richard can hardly be said to have honored his brother’s faith in him and very quickly placed young Edward and his younger brother Richard in the Tower of London, from whence they never reappeared. Richard briefly reigned as King of England between 14 after his brother, King Edward IV, died.Įdward was to be succeeded by his son and namesake, Edward V, but as the young Edward was a minor in 1483, Richard was chosen to serve as regent while he was still a child. It can be traced back to at least the late fifteenth century and is an allusion to King Richard III. Was Richard III the inspiration?īut the Humpty Dumpty rhyme has a much older provenance. Slight evolutions occurred after that throughout the nineteenth century until the twentieth-century version was arrived at. This ran:Ĭould not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.” Humpty Dumpty has been around for centuries, but the modern, standardized version of the rhyme is largely derived from the version published by an English publisher and organist by the name of Samuel Arnold in 1797. Artist Rendition of Humpty Dumpty The Modern Origins of Humpty Dumpty This is the story of the strange historical origins of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme. But, there is a much wider story to how this nursery rhyme came into existence and how it developed across a period of five or six hundred years. This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows: Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty.
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