edward + mary

Question 1

name of the act that confirmed edward as successor

Answer 1

third succession act

Question 2

examples of reformists and catholics in edward’s regency council

Answer 2

reformists- seymour

catholics- gardiner

Question 3

first lord protector

Answer 3

edward seymour, duke of somerset

Question 4

number in the regency council

Answer 4

16

Question 5

people in the anti-somerset faction

Answer 5

dudley, paget, wriothesley

Question 6

second lord protector

Answer 6

john dudley, duke of northumberland/earl of warwick/lord lisle

Question 7

how did somserset contribute to kett’s rebellion?

Answer 7

tried to pass anti-enclosure bills 3 times, blocked by the commons- angered the peasants

Question 8

kett’s rebellion dates/location

Answer 8

july-august 1549 in norfolk

Question 9

western rebellion dates/location

Answer 9

june-august 1549 in cornwall

Question 10

kett’s motivation

Answer 10

enclosures, rising food prices, increasing power of landlords

Question 11

western motivation

Answer 11

new book of common prayer- in english- people didn’t like this in cornwall especially as they were very catholic and didn’t understand english anyway, latin was at least familiar

Question 12

event that solidified the fall of somerset

Answer 12

october 1549- took edward to windsor castle, edward accused him of taking him prisoner so he was arrested

Question 13

why was somerset executed?

Answer 13

he was let back into the council but was accused of plotting against the rest of the council to try and regain power

Question 14

how did northumberland solidify power?

Answer 14

gained control of administration of the royal household in feb 1550, removed conservative anti-somerset faction members to ally with religious radicals

Question 15

attempts at reconciliation between the 2 lord protectors

Answer 15

northumberland’s son married to somerset’s daughter, allowed his release from prison

Question 16

when was somerset executed?

Answer 16

jan 1552

Question 17

northumberland’s reformed council

Answer 17

33 men chosen for loyalty and military experience, had a smaller council for everyday business

Question 18

when did edward originally fall ill?

Answer 18

jan 1553

Question 19

when was it agreed that edward would not recover?

Answer 19

june 1553

Question 20

when did edward die?

Answer 20

july 6 1553

Question 21

when did edward change the devise for the succession?

Answer 21

april 1553

Question 22

when did jane get married and who to?

Answer 22

guildford dudley- son of northumberland- in may 1553

Question 23

ways northumberland didn’t help his cause

Answer 23

not launching a propaganda campaign off the new devise and the fact the acts declaring mary and elizabeth illegitimate had never been repealed

Question 24

failure of northumberland over the course of the rebellion

Answer 24

not bringing an army with him, expecting to pick up supporters

Question 25

when was northumberland executed?

Answer 25

august 1553

Question 26

objections to mary as queen for gender reasons

Answer 26

knox- first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women- 'insulting to god'

Question 27

examples of privy councillors who supported marriage to each suitor

Answer 27

gardiner supported edward courtenay as suitor | paget supported philip

Question 28

why was philip a good suitor?

Answer 28

would have improved england's standing in europe- philip was a habsburg

Question 29

when did mary announce her marriage?

Answer 29

october 1553

Question 30

when was the marriage treaty passed?

Answer 30

april 1554

Question 31

when was mary's marriage?

Answer 31

august 1554

Question 32

what was the plan for wyatt's rebellion?

Answer 32

4-prong rising

Question 33

how many troops were gathered for wyatt's?

Answer 33

3000

Question 34

when was wyatt's?

Answer 34

jan-feb 1554

Question 35

executions following wyatt's

Answer 35

lady jane grey and her husband, wyatt- croft was imprisoned and let off and carew fled to france

Question 36

no of councillors mary had

Answer 36

50- which was a lot, elizabeth only had 20 max

Question 37

how did mary improve how her council was set up?

Answer 37

started to exclude more casual councillors, rarely met with them all, set up an 'inner council' in 1555

Question 38

example of a dispute mary had with her council

Answer 38

over the revival of heresy laws

Question 39

problems with mary's council

Answer 39

inefficient at the start- lack of formal meeting about philip

Question 40

why did faction stop being a problem under mary?

Answer 40

gardiner died and philip left in 1555- so paget could dominate

Question 41

when were the phantom pregnancies?

Answer 41

1554, 1557

Question 42

succession following mary's death

Answer 42

no problems- mary had accepted elizabeth as heir

Question 43

what did paget do to try and stop gardiner gaining control over the council?

Answer 43

set up the committee system in 1554

Question 44

faction's influence on the restoration of heresy laws

Answer 44

paget urged the lords to reject gardiner's proposal in 1554 to restore them, and the law was blocked

Question 45

how 1555 impacted marian faction

Answer 45

gardiner was dead and philip, who was also fighting for dominance, had left so paget could dominate

Question 46

faction that helped mary to the throne

Answer 46

kenninghall faction