Henry VII Foreign policy
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- After 1485, Henry VII was so well established that he was never in serious danger of losing the throne
- Establishing the Tudor dynasty
- Changed the start of his reign to the day before the Battle of Bosworth
- Therefore he could not be accused of regicide or usurping the throne
- Could accuse all of those who stood with Richard III of treason, a way of getting rid of his enemies
- Marriage to Elizabeth of York
- United the two rival houses of the War of the Roses (Lancaster and York)
- Tudor Rose
- Birth of Prince Arthur - securing the succession
- After Arthur's death, his younger brother Henry became next in line
- Changed the start of his reign to the day before the Battle of Bosworth
- National Security
- Spain
- Treaty of Medina Del Campo
- Securing trade with Spain and marriage alliance
- promised not to harbour any yorkist prtenders
- Treaty of Medina Del Campo
- France
- Breton crisis
- campaign failed as Duchess Anne married Charles VIII of France
- Success in the Treaty of Etaples
- Pension paid to England
- Peace treaty
- promised not to harbour any yorksit pretenders
- Breton crisis
- Scotland
- War with Scotland
- threat of invasion
- Treaty of Perpetual Peace 1502
- Marriage alliance made between Princess Margaret and James IV of Scotland
- Spain
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- Rebellions
- Lovell and Stafford Rebellion, 1486
- Francis Lovell and the Stafford Brothers
- The aim of the rebellion was to replace Henry with Yorkist pretender, Lambert Simnel
- Rebellion ended with the Battle of Stoke - the battle that ended the war of the roses
- Rebellion was a failure as Henry had the real Earl of Warwick locked away in the tower of London
- Yorkshire Rebellion, 1489
- Henry increased taxes in order to fund Brittany campaign
- £100,000 needed
- Yorkshire did not agree with the taxation as it had nothing to do with them
- marched to York in defiance against the crown
- Earl of Northumberland murdered
- Army, under control of the Earl of Surrey sent up to the Yorkshire to dissolve the rebellion
- Henry later strengthened presence in the north to avoid another rebellion
- Henry increased taxes in order to fund Brittany campaign
- Cornish Rebellion, 1497
- In response to governments increased taxation to fund the war with Scotland
- Cornwall too far away from Scotland, refused to pay tax for war, as it wouldn't effect them
- Cornwall considered a land apart form the rest of England, had their own language and identity
- marched form Cornwall to Blackheath without anybody stopping them
- defeated by the army, around 1.000 killed at Battle of Blackheath
- Lovell and Stafford Rebellion, 1486
- Pretenders
- Lambert Simnel
- He pretended to be the Earl of Warwick, cousin to the princes in the tower
- named King Edward VI in Ireland
- proved to be a fraud after Henry VII revealed the real Earl of Warwick to the public
- he was a prisoner in the Tower of London
- not a significant threat
- executed in 1499
- Perkin Warbeck
- pretended to be Richard of York, one of the princes in the tower
- had international support
- Margaret of Burgandy, Maximilian I, King James of Scotland, French King etc
- Several countries including Burgandy, France and Scotland harboured Warbeck
- Henry had no proof that Warbeck was an imposter like he had with Simnel as the bodies of the princes were never found until centuries later
- Imprisoned by Henry VII in 1477 and executed 2 years later in 1499
- Lambert Simnel
- Establishing the Tudor dynasty
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