1.1 Threats to Henry VII's rule

Question 1

When was the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 1

22nd of August 1485

Question 2

How did Henry convict all who were against him on the day of the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 2

He stipulated by an Act of Parliament that his reign started on the 21st of August 1485.

Question 3

Which pretender impersonated the Earl of Warwick?

Answer 3

Lambert Simnel

Question 4

Which pretender impersonated Richard Duke of York?

Answer 4

Perkin Warbeck

Question 5

Who did Warbeck impersonate?

Answer 5

Richard Duke of York

Question 6

Who did Simnel impersonate?

Answer 6

The Earl of Warwick

Question 7

What year was Simnel defeated?

Answer 7

1487

Question 8

Where was Simnel defeated?

Answer 8

Defeated after landing in Lancashire

Question 9

Who engineered the Simnel - Warwick trick?

Answer 9

Oxford priest Richard Symonds

Question 9

How many troops did Simnel have when he was defeated? How many did Henry’s army have?

Answer 9

8000 Simnel
12000 Henry VII

Question 10

When and where did Warbeck declare he was the Duke of York?

Answer 10

1491, in Ireland

Question 11

Where was Warbeck harboured in 1492?

Answer 11

The French court

Question 12

What event drove Warbeck out of the French court?

Answer 12

The Treaty of Etaples

Question 13

When was the Treaty of Etaples?

Answer 13

November 1492

Question 14

What was the Treaty of Etaples?

Answer 14

Peace between France and England, as long as Charles of France ended his support for Warbeck.

Question 15

Where did Warbeck flee after the Treaty of Etaples?

Answer 15

He went to Flanders.

Question 16

How did Henry VII react to Flanders harbouring Warbeck?

Answer 16

He cut trade ties with Flanders.

Significant because England’s largest export was cloth, which was primarily sold to Flanders.

Question 17

What year does Henry VII impose and embargo on Flanders?

Answer 17

1493

Question 18

When is Warbeck recognised as Richard IV by Maximilian?

Answer 18

1494

Question 19

What does Warbeck do in 1495? (three things)

Answer 19

• Failed landing at Deal in Kent.
• Fled to Scotland
• Married Lady Catherine Gordon, James IV’s cousin.

Question 20

How many troops does Scotland give Warbeck and when?

Answer 20

James IV gives 1500 troops to Warbeck to invade via the north but he fails. This was in 1496

Question 21

When is Warbeck captured?

Answer 21

He is captured in November 1497, after attempting to rise among the Cornish rebellion.

Question 22

What happens to Warbeck when he is captured?

Answer 22

He is allowed to stay at Henry VII’s court.

Question 23

When is Warbeck put in the Tower?

Answer 23

1498 (he tries to flee)

Question 24

When is Warbeck executed?

Answer 24

1499, along with the real Earl of Warwick.

Question 25

When does the Earl of Suffolk flee England?

Answer 25

1501

Question 26

Where does the Earl of Suffolk flee to?

Answer 26

Maximilian

Question 27

What is the Earl of Suffolk also known as?

Answer 27

Edmund de la Pole

Question 28

When did Henry's sons die?

Answer 28

Edmund died in infancy (1500) Arthur died in 1502 | This made Edmund de la Pole's claim stronger as he was next in line, after Henry VIII.

Question 29

When is Philip of Burgundy blown ashore to England?

Answer 29

1506

Question 30

How is Edmund de la Pole retrieved to England?

Answer 30

Philip of Burgundy hands him over, as the resolution of his stay in England.

Question 31

When was Edmund de la Pole executed?

Answer 31

In 1513, under Henry VIII.

Question 32

What was Edmund de la Pole's claim to the throne?

Answer 32

He was nephew to both Edward IV and Richard III.

Question 33

When was the rebellion in the Midlands and north?

Answer 33

1486

Question 34

How did Henry VII deal with the rebellion in the Midlands and north?

Answer 34

He progressed. He offered pardon or death to the rebels. They fled

Question 35

Who were the rebels behind the rebellion in the Midlands and north?

Answer 35

Lord Francis Lovell, Stafford brothers (Thomas and Humphrey)

Question 36

Who did Henry send to deal with the rebellion in Wales?

Answer 36

Rhys ap Thomas

Question 37

When was the rebellion in Wales?

Answer 37

1486

Question 38

When was the Yorkshire rebellion?

Answer 38

1489

Question 39

Why did the Yorkshire rising happen?

Answer 39

They were unhappy with the tax raised for the Brittany war.

Question 40

How much tax had to be raised for the Brittany war?

Answer 40

£100,000

Question 41

When was the Cornish rebellion?

Answer 41

1497

Question 42

Why did the Cornish rebellion happen?

Answer 42

Tax was raised to fund a northern campaign against Warbeck.

Question 43

How many rebels gathered at Blackheath (outside London when the rebels marched all the way from Cornwall)?

Answer 43

15,000

Question 44

Henry's tactic was to put down rebels with force to stop them rising again next time. What evidence can support this?

Answer 44

In the Cornish rebellion, the number of rebels dropped as they arrived on London, which suggests many knew they would be treated mercilessly by Henry's army.

Question 45

What was the battle at which Lambert Simnel et al. were put down?

Answer 45

Battle of Stoke

Question 46

What year was the Battle of Stoke?

Answer 46

1487 (June)