2 - trade agreements

Question 1

When was the trade embargo with Burgundy?

Answer 1

1493-96

Question 2

Why was there a trade embargo with Burgundy?

Answer 2

their support for Warbeck concerned Henry

Question 3

When did Philip seek shelter in England & sign the Malus Intercursus?

Answer 3

1506

Question 4

Navigation Acts (1485-86)

Answer 4

limited foreign control of English trade (Spain retaliated by forbidding export of goods from Spain on foreign ships), resolved by Treaty of Medina del Campo (same rights & low duties rate)

Question 5

When were the Navigation Acts imposed?

Answer 5

1485-86

Question 6

How did Spain retaliate to the Navigation Acts?

Answer 6

forbade export of goods from Spain on foreign ships

Question 7

agreement with Portugal

Answer 7

earlier trade treaty renewed (Portugal = England’s oldest ally, first treaty in 14th century)

Question 8

agreement with Brittany

Answer 8

1486, commercial treaty

Question 9

agreement with Florence

Answer 9

1490, trade agreement, English staple established in Pisa

Question 10

relationship with the Hanseatic League

Answer 10

• dominated trade in the Baltic
• Henry attempted to limit their privileges through Navigation Acts (failed)
• Henry tried to improve position of English merchants there by signing treaties with Denmark & Norway (1489 & 1490), & Riga (1499)
• failed again
• Henry restored their favourable position (worried they’d support Yorkist claimants)