Northen Revolt

Question 1

What were the 3 main reasons for the Northern revolt

Answer 1

Mary QS arrival in England 1568
Elizabeths religious policy
Northern Lords decreasing influence and power
England future

Question 2

Who were the 3 Lords

Answer 2

Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk
(MQS)

Question 3

Why did Percy revolt

Answer 3

• He had held an important position at court under Mary I, but lost a lot of his influence under Elizabeth as she favoured new, Protestant gentry.
• lost the rights to a valuable, newly discovered copper mine on his lands in 1567
  mine found on his lands to the queen in 1567.

Question 4

Why did Neville revolt

Answer 4

• was from an important Catholic family in the north of England.
• He was also the Duke of Norfolk’s brother-in-law. Was persuaded by his Wife Jane Neville

Question 5

Why did Howard revolt

Answer 5

• was one of England’s most senior nobles and a Protestant, although he had close links to old, northern Catholic families, too.
• Coming from an ancient noble family, he disliked the newcomers, such as William Cecil and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
• A central part of the revolt was a plot to marry the Duke of Norfolk to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Question 6

Why did many favour the revolt

Answer 6

MQS was to Mary Norfolk who was Protestant, which assumed that his children would be too, so even if Elizabeth died the monarch would still be prodestant

Question 7

What was the plan

Answer 7

1. The earls of Northumberland and Westmorland will raise rebel forces and take control of Durham.
2. The rebels wil then march south towards London to join with the Duke of Norfolk.
3. Several thousand Spanish troops wil land in Hartlepool to
   support the rebel forces.
4. The Duke of Norfolk and the rebel forces wil seize control of
   the government in London and overthrow Elizabeth 1.
5. Any resistance will be overthrown by the Spanish troops.
6. Meanwhile, Mary, Queen of Scots, is to be freed, ready to marry the Duke of Norfolk and take the English throne.

Question 8

How did the revolt fail

Answer 8

Robert Dudly Earl of Leicester informed Elizabeth and and attested Norfolk and sent him to the tower of London in 1569.

The other Lords (with the persuasion of their wife’s) still went on and captured Durham, destroying evidence of protestantism and celebrating mass

They marched south but were met with 14,000 men raised by Elizabeth, Spanish reinforcements never arrived

Question 9

What happened to the Lords

Answer 9

Westmorland - escaped
Northumberland - captured and executed 1572
Norfolk x prisoned and released
Mary - remained in captivity for 14 years