Consolidation Of Power Flashcards
(5 cards)
How did Henry consolidate power
-Dated his reign from 21 August 1485 day before battle of Bosworth ensuring all Yorkists would be traitors
-Publicly rewarded many of his supporters
-Arranged to detain Earl of Warwick who had a greater claim to the throne than himself
-Key appointments to council such as Reginad Bray as Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster and Sir William Stanley Chamberlin of the household
-Parliamentary Acts of Attainder against Yorkists
-January 1486 Henry married Elizabeth of York
-Birth to heir of throne September 1486
Viscount lovell and the staffords 1486
First rebellion Easter 1486
Led by Viscount Lovell and Humphrey Stafford.
Lovell tried to raise a rebellion in North Riding of Yorkshire
Stafford tried to raise forces in the Midlands
Lovell escaped from the Kings forces but Stafford was caught though his younger brother Thomas was pardoned
Lambert Simnel and rebllion of Earl of LIncon
Figure head of the rebellion was Lambert Simnel who was being passed as the Earl of Warwick and conspiracy put together by John de la Pole.
They persuaded Margaret of Burgundy to send mercenary forces.
Henry had plenty of notice about the rebellion and reinstated Duke of Northumberland to power in the North, but took risk as he was key under Richard III
Battle of Stoke field
- Earl of Lincoln killed as unable to add followers
- Significant as bought an end to the Wars of the Roses
- Began to use Bonds of good behaviour to ensure well-behaved landowners
Perkin Warbeck
- Cloth trader from Flanders and a persistent irritant to Henry VII
- Claimed to be Richard Duke of York
- 1491 began in Ireland then at Charles VIII court and then fled year after
- Fled to Margaret of Burgundy
- Warbeck fled to Scotland to James IV
- 1496 small Scottish force crossed the border on behalf of Warbeck
- Warbeck sacrificed after Henry’s offer to marry Margaret
- Attempted to influence the Cornish rebellion
