Crown and Nobility

Question 1

Percy estates forfeited to crown

Answer 1

1403 (Shrewsbury)
-recovered most of their lands and titles over next few decades

Question 2

rise of Nevilles

Answer 2

-Earl of Salisbury = member of King’s council 1440’s
-his son married into Beauchamp family, gaining wealth and title earl of Warwick)

Question 3

Wressle Castle (Percy Neville dispute)

Answer 3

-Thomas Neville and Maud Stanhope marry (1453)
-Neville family gain inheritance to Wressle Castle (former Percy property)
-Egremont attempts to kill Salisbury at wedding party

Question 4

Paston dispute

Answer 4

-John Paston = Norfolk knight (Falstof’s) main benificiary in oral will
-Duke of Norfolk (other heir) seized Caister castle in 1461 (when Henry VI deposed)

Question 5

Caister castle changing hands

Answer 5

-EIV upheld Paston rights
-Norfolk reoccupies in rebellions (1469-71)
-Paston goes to e of Oxford and he ejects Norfolk
-Oxford defeated at Barnet and Norfolk reoccupies 3rd time
-Paston rights restoed in 1476

Question 6

Bonville - Courtenay dispute

Answer 6

-fight over Taunton castle (1451)
-Bonville grandson marries Warwick sister
-Courtenay murdered senior member of Bonville’s retinue (1455)
-Bonville captured and killed at 2 St Albans

Question 7

Bonville revived under EIV

Answer 7

-Cecily Bonville married EIV’s step son (marquis of Dorset)

Question 8

EIV regional magnate system

Answer 8

-Gloucester = council in North
-Rivers = Wales council
-Hastings = midlands
-after C, Marquis of Dorset = South West

Question 9

EIV untrusted magnates

Answer 9

Stanley, Northumberland (Percy), Buckingham

Question 10

Henry VII magnate system

Answer 10

-uncle (J.Tudor) = d o Bedford
-T.Stanley = e o Derby
-W.Stanley = e o Oxford
-Courtenay = earl of Devon