The Tudor Rebellions Flashcards
Amicable Grant 25 - Causes
- French army stricken at battle of Pavia, Charles V held Francis I captive, Henry sees opportunity to invade France
- Wolsey demands forced loan
Amicable Grant 25 - Events
- Suffolk and East Anglian, 10 000 men marched on Lavenham (cloth making town in East Anglia - high end rebellion)
- Duke of Norfolk in Tower, couldn’t negotiate
Amicable Grant 25
Ending
- Abandoned, leaders kneel before Henry with noose around neck
Pilgrimage of Grace 35
- Causes
- Dissolution of the lesser monasteries
- Socioeconomic reasons, bad harvests 1535/6
- Unpopular divorce
Pilgrimage of Grace 35
- Events
- 30 000 men under Robert Aske and support from nobility (lord Darcy) s army only 8000 strong
- Secured pontefract castle from Lord Darcy oct 21
- Sang ballads in favor of monasteries, swore oath contradicting the dissolution, and had a banner of the 5 wounds of Christ (religious grievances)
- Manifestos at York: remove evil councilors, restore old faith and protect the monasteries, free parliament in North
Pilgrimage of Grace 35
Ending
-Leaders did not want to overthrow Henry, only reform and thus they wanted to negotiate
-Henry told Norfolk to buy - asks for time and agree to their demands, - Aske believed they were in no position to deny them what they wanted
-December 1536, if the rebels dispersed….
(i) Pardon
(ii) Northern Parliament, until it was elected dissolution was suspended
(iii) Collection of 1534 subsidy would be ceased
—-> Apparent victory, but later rebellion in Cumberland gave Henry excuse to retaliate, rebels fail to take Carlisle
>Norfolk declared martial law in Carlisle, 74 hanged on spot
> Ringleaders from pilgrimage arrested/interrogated
>Aske/Lords Percy, Darcy, Hussey, all executed early 1537
Western Rebellion/Prayerbook Revolt 49
- Causes
- 1547, Edward VI comes to throne. Lord Seward Becomes Lord Protector
- 1549, New Prayer Book prohibiting Latin mass
- High inflation, wheat prices *4
Western Rebellion/Prayerbook Revolt 49
- Events
- 7000 march on Exeter
- July, 8000 troops respond
- August, 5500 killed
- We pray you consider vs we will have
- ‘kill all the gentlemen
Western Rebellion/Prayerbook Revolt 49
Ending
- 5500 killed
- Latin mass NOT reinstated
Kett’s Rebellion 49
- Causes
- Enclosure
- Inflation
Kett’s Rebellion 49
- Events
- R. Ket sees people taking down his faces, decides to protest with them
- Occupy
Norwich - Lord Somerset, Lord Protector, hesitates, as he doesn’t know what to do
- Duke of Norfolk in the Tower, Marquess of Hampton poor negotiator
- Demand end to enclosure
Kett’s Rebellion 49
Ending
- Warwick sends army of 14000 to put rebellion down
- 3000 killed
- Ket hanged
Wyatt’s rebellion 54 - Causes
- Mary’s marriage to Philip II
- Traditional historians have noted it as proof that Protestantism was popular
Wyatt’s rebellion 54
- Events
- Army of 3000 marched on London, didn’t get in
Wyatt’s rebellion 54
Ending
- Rebels went home
- Wyatt hung
