Early Tudors Timeline OCR ALevel History
Category: History
Updated: 3 months ago
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Created bygabriella houghton
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Mary Tudor Dieskey
important individuals - red
additional info - black
Henry VII:
national security - blue
secure the Tudor Dynasty - pink
financial stability - green
controlling the nobility -
government - purple
Henry VIII
foreign policy - blue
domestic policies -
religious changes up to 1529 -
factions in 1540 -
foreign policy post 1540 -
Mid Tudor Crisis
stability of monarchy
religious changes
unrestwar of the roses:
1455-1487
- ended with the Battle of Bosworth
to which Henry VII won
- he started his reign from the day before the battle
so that anyone who fought against him would be
seen as traitors and could seize their estates
-Elizabeth of York - Married to Henry
this united both house of Lancaster and York
- took place after henry was crowned king so she can't take the
throne
John De La Pole - Earl of Lincoln
- Richard III's nephew
- professed his loyalty to Henry and joined the king's council
Edmund De La Pole- Earl of Suffolk
- too young to be involved in the battle and his brothers' revolt
- loyal to the Tudors
- gained lands back but had to pay £5000 to henry in yearly instalments
Margaret of Burgundy- sister of RiLovel and Stafford Brothers 1486
- opposition from dissatisfied Yorkists
- planned a co-ordinated attack but henry found out about it
- sent armed forces to deal with it, offering a choice of pardon or
excommunication
- Lovel fled to Flanders, Humphry sought sanctuary later executed
and Thomas was pardonedYorkist Rebellion 1489
- result of the Breton Crisis and trying to raise
money for it
- caused taxes to increase, and the north were less concerned
about the issue so were enraged by the taxation
- parliament granted henry a subsidy of £100,000
- when Earl of Northumberland went to collect taxes he was murdered showing the
discontent
- though the rebellion did hold some threat it was more so against taxation then Henry
himself but put him in an uneasy position due to his poor financial situationCornish Rebellion 1497
- Henry needed money from Parliament again as there
was a threat from Scotland
- this was backed by Warbeck too
- Rebellion started in May in Bodmin and progressed to London
- however it lost for two reasons:
1- people were sick of the fighting
2- fear of what the king would do
- they gained 15,000 supporters against 25,000 of the kings
men
- main goal was still against taxation, and the people in charge of them
like Morton and BrayJohn Morton
- lord chancellor under henry VII
-known for his harsh taxation policies
Sir Reginald Bray
- appointed to Henry's council in 1492
- chief financial advisorLamber Simnel
- pretender of Earl of Warwick
- gained support from Margret of Burgundy, Oxford, and
Ireland
- supplied 2,000 mercenaries from Burgundy
- Henry was fearful he'd gain too much support and offered
a right of pardon
- also managed to parade the real Earl of Warwick around London
Defeated in the Battle Of Stoke 8,000 v 1,200Perkin Warbeck
- pretender of Richard Duke of York
- arrived in Ireland in 1491, gaining support form both French Court
and Margret of Burgundy
- Treaty of Etaples in 1492 put an end to French support so he fled to Flanders
- welcomed in Scotland and was married to James IV cousin and provided him with 1,500
troops
- imprisoned and then executed in 1499
- couldn't parade the real Duke of York
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