1456-59: Margaret’s Dominance Flashcards
When did York’s Second Protectorate end?
25th Feb 1456
What month did York’s final appointments get replaced in government? Who was replaced?
Oct 1456
Bourchiers
What 3 appointments did Margaret make in Autumn 1456?
24th Sept 1456 - appointed Lawrence Booth as Keeper of the Privy Seal
5th Oct 1456 - replaced Viscount Bourchier with Shrewsbury as Treasurer
11th Oct 1456 - replaced Thomas Bourchier with William Waynflete as Chancellor
Who did York deter from invading England, on behalf of Henry VI? When?
James II of Scotland
May 1456
When did Warwick actually take control of Calais?
July 1456
When did court move? Where to? On whose demand?
April 1456
Coventry
Queen Margaret
Which 2 of Margaret’s favourites became bishops? When?
Lawrence Booth, Bishop of Durham, 1457
John Hales (Marg’s Chamberlain since 1455), Bishop of Chichester, 1459
Why was York not trialed after the Second Protectorate?
sought reconciliation, not division
Who caused disruption and abused their power in S. Wales?
Gruffydd ap Nicolas
Which Yorkists marched to which S. Wales castle? With how many men? When? Who did they capture?
Sir William Herbert + Sir Walter Devereux
Carmarthen
2,000 men
Aug 1456
Edmund Tudor
What happened to Edmund Tudor after he was captured? Who was given 2 Welsh Castles? Which castles? When?
released, and died of unrelated illness on 1st Nov 1456
Jasper Tudor
Aberystwyth + Carmarthen
21st April 1457
When was the Prince’s Council set up? Who by/for? Who was part of the council? Where were the lands it controlled?
28th Jan 1457
by Margaret, for Edward of Wales
Lawrence Booth, Lord Dudley, Earl of Wiltshire
N. Wales + NW. England
Who was part of the Lancastrian coalition around 1457-58? Why?
Devon + Exeter, hot-headed
Wiltshire + Beaumont, long-standing courtiers
Pembroke + Shrewsbury, potential Yorkists
Somerset + Northumberland + Clifford, opposed York from St. Albans
When was the French raid on Sandwich? Who commanded it? What was the consequence of this?
28th Aug 1457
Pierre de Breze
King + nobles returned to London
When was Loveday? What were the original intentions of it?
25 Mar 1458
to unite nobility and reconcile after First Battle of St. Albans
Who hijacked Loveday? What happened because of this?
Margaret
attacked Yorkists:
- ignored motivations of Yorkists at St. Albans
- forced Yorkists to pay £5,000 to Beauforts
- forced Yorkists to pay £666 to Cliffords
- cancelled Percies paying £15,000 to Nevilles
- Nevilles forced to build Chantry at St. Albans for the dead
- forced Yorkists to hold hands with sons of those murdered at St. Albans
When was Warwick summoned to answer for his crimes? What were they? Why wasn’t he charged, and who protected him?
Nov 1458
Piracy against Italian + Flemish ships
brawl on 9th Nov and he escaped
protected from blame from Margaret by Henry VI
When was Warwick involved in a fight? How did it start? How/where did he escape? What did he believe this was?
9th Nov 1458
Warwick’s man struck a royal servant
by barge, then to Calais
an assassination attempt by Margaret
Which key marriage to isolate York was organised by Margaret? When?
Margaret Beaufort (niece of og Edmund Beaufort)
+
Henry Stafford (2nd son of Buckingham)
Jan 1458
