Most old nursery rhymes is said to be based on fact,so what is the fact or origins of Humpty Dumpty ?.?

Question

Such as Ring Ring of Rose was
based on a outbrake of scarlet fever.

I say most.

Answer 1

It was based on a king that was averist and fat.. European... his empire had fallen because he was arogant ... and when his empire fell noone could put it back the way it had been and he had a nervous break down... Not sure what king it was.. but My grand mother told me at one time (she being from England and all she said it was in her history lessons).. she told me that this king would sit on the castle wall and look out apon the land very smugly and then when the people revolted and didnt pay the tax and then his children and even the queen and all others in the royal family turned against him he went mad and had a nervous break down and not one person could help him come back to his sences and the entire empire fell.

Wish I could remember the name of the king.. I do remember that it was in england... but dont remember anything other than that..

Answer 2

Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used by the Royalists during the English Civil War, It was mounted on top of Colchester Castle, and one of the larest Cannon of the day. Anyway when the Parlementarians captured Colchester Castle the Cannon was pushed from the roof and smashed so it could no longer be used.
Hence Humpty Dumpty (the Cannon) Sat on a Wall (Colchester Castle). Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall (The Cannon pushed off the Castle Wall). All The Kings Horses & All The Kings Men (Royalists) Could not put Humpty together again.

Answer 3

The fact that Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known

Answer 4

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

Who was Humpty Dumpty?
Humpty Dumpty was a colloquial term used in 15th century England to describe someone who was fat or obese - giving rise to lots of theories pertaining to the identity of Humpty Dumpty. However, in this case the question should be not Who was Humpty Dumpty but What was Humpty Dumpty? Humpty Dumpty was in fact an unusually large canon which was mounted on the protective wall of "St. Mary's Wall Church" in Colchester, England. It was intended to protect the Parliamentarian stronghold of Colchester which was in the temporarily in control of the Royalists during the period of English history, described as the English Civil War ( 1642 - 1649). A shot from a Parliamentary canon succeeded in damaging the wall underneath Humpty Dumpty causing the canon to fall to the ground. The Royalists 'all the King's men' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall but even with the help of ' all the King's horses' failed in their task and Colchester fell to the Parliamentarians after a siege lasting eleven weeks.

Answer 5

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.

Answer 6

I've always heard that Humpty Dumpty was a thinly-veiled insult to Richard III of England, to whom Shakespeare gave the disfiguration of a humped back (which apparently Richard did not have in reality).

Answer 7

Humpty was allegedly a massive Cannon used in the war with Napoleon, all the kings men couldnt repair him after it was damaged after falling from its position on a ledge......so Im told anyway......ring a ring a roses dates back to the great plague of the 17th century, people used to wear a posie about their faces as they believed that the plague was carried in the foul smells, by keeping their noses free of smelly things they mistakenly believed that they could ward off the plague!

Answer 8

Humpty dumpty was based on our monarchy when George went a bit mad!! All the kings horses and all the kings men could not put humpty back together again!

Answer 9

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.

Origins
Previous to the "short, clumsy person" meaning, "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale. There are also various theories of an original "Humpty Dumpty", who was not an egg. Most, if not all, of these must be classified as false etymologies.

According to an insert taken from the East Anglia Tourist Board in England, Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War. It was mounted on top of the St Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648. Although Colchester was a Royalist stronghold, it was besieged by the Roundheads for 11 weeks before finally falling. The church tower was hit by enemy cannon fire and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally all the King's horses and all the King's men (Royalist cavalry and infantry respectively) tried to mend "him" but in vain. Other reports have Humpty Dumpty referring to a sniper nicknamed One-Eyed Thompson, who occupied the same church tower.
Visitors to Colchester can see the reconstructed Church tower as they reach the top of Balkerne Hill on the left hand side of the road. An extended version of the rhyme gives additional verses, including the following:
In Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight
When England suffered the pains of state
The Roundheads lay siege to Colchester town
Where the King's men still fought for the crown
There One-Eyed Thompson stood on the wall
A gunner of deadliest aim
From St. Mary's Tower his cannon he fired
Humpty-Dumpty was its name...
In another theory, Humpty Dumpty referred to King Richard III of England, the hunchbacked monarch, the "Wall" being either the name of his horse (called "White Surrey" in Shakespeare's play), or a reference to the supporters who deserted him. During the battle of Bosworth Field, he fell off his steed and was said to have been "hacked into pieces". (However, although the play depicts Richard as a hunchback, other historical evidence suggests that he was not.)
Humpty Dumpty may also refer to a Roman war machine called a Testudo used to cross moats and climb over castle walls. Humpty Dumpty refers to the turtle-like look of the machine and the noise of the wheels.
The story of Cardinal Wolsey's downfall is depicted in the children's nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. At length Cawood castle (Cawood, a village in Yorkshire, seven miles southwest of York) passed to Cardinal Wolsey, who let it fall into disrepair in the early part of his career (1514 – 1530), due to his residence at the Court, devotion to temporal affairs and his neglect of his diocesan duties. King Henry VIII sent Wolsey back home in 1523 after he failed to obtain a divorce from the Pope – a huge mistake on Wolsey’s part. Wolsey returned to the castle and began to restore it to its former grandeur. However, he was arrested for high treason in November, 1530 and ordered to London for trial. He left on 6 November, but took ill at Leicester and died in the Abbey there on 29 November.

Answer 10

A gigantic egg in a suit and bow tie sitting on a brick wall.He loses his grip and goes splat.He obviously didn't know about the laws of gravity,or about how traumatic it was going to be for the millions of children forced to read this nursery rhyme.