Dick Whittington and His Cat
... that the English folkloric story Dick Whittington and His Cat is based on the real Richard Whittington, but there is no historical evidence that he ever had a cat?
... that the <a href="./English_folklore" id="mwDL4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="English folklore">English folkloric story</a> <i id="mwDL8"><b id="mwDMA"><a href="./Dick_Whittington_and_His_Cat" id="mwDME" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dick Whittington and His Cat">Dick Whittington and His Cat</a></b></i> is based on the real <a href="./Richard_Whittington" id="mwDMI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richard Whittington">Richard Whittington</a>, but there is no historical evidence that he ever had a cat?