Edward 1st vs 2nd Reign

Question 1

Towton

Answer 1

Edward wins crown, March 1461

Question 2

Green

Answer 2

“New Monarchy” Edward is not this

Question 3

control quote Horrox

Answer 3

“very much the master of his own kingdom”

Question 4

Ross on Piquigny

Answer 4

“Golden opportunity missed” “he hoped to achieve something more glorious”

Question 5

Forgein Powers Margaret

Answer 5

500-600 French Mercanaries during invasion of the North in 1462

Question 6

Tudor French Support

Answer 6

Supported by French mercenaries in his escape from Harlech in 1468

Question 7

1469-71 Forgein involvement

Answer 7

Charles and Louis determine who will win the throne, engineering the alliance between Margaret and Warwick plus equiping Edward with 1200 men and 36 ships

Question 8

Contrast with 2nd reign in terms of forgein involvement

Answer 8

No forgein involvement and Edward actually got involved in other peoples affairs!

Question 9

Mariage to Elizabeth Woodville

Answer 9

“first major blunder of his political career”
embarasses warwick who was due to hold a conference at St Omer
Subsequent elevation of the 9 woodville children scuppering Warwicks mariage plan for Anne and Isabel with thre Duke of Buckingham

Question 10

Burgundy vs France

Answer 10

Sides with Burgundy, 1467 trade treaty doubles wool trade

Question 11

Dealings with Scotland

Answer 11

Treaty of York fails (June 1464) compared to Treaty of perpetual peace and supression of border raids by Lord Howard in the firth of forth sinking all but 8 of the scottish fleet

Question 12

Scottish expedition 1482

Answer 12

Partial success seizes Berwick but fails to put Albany on the throne

Question 13

French invasion of 1475

Answer 13

culminates in treaty of Picquigny August 1475, french pension of 10,000 per year and 10 year truce
‘national humiliation’

Question 14

Somersets and Percy rebellions

Answer 14

1463 failure of policy of conciliation Alnwick, Bamburg and Dunstanborough, pitched battles at Hegley Moor and Hexham (1465)
Contrasts with Tudors hidin in Brittany and Earl of Oxfords imprisonment at Hammes

Question 15

Reflection of support of nobility

Answer 15

every nobel contributes in 1475

Question 16

Warwick

Answer 16

instigates rebellions in the North by Robin of Redesdale and Lord FitzHugh “it was the north that brought Edward down” - Carpenter
Contrasts to control of Richard duke of Gloucester who made the North a safe haven through his presidency of the council of the North
Also contrasts with Clarences brief cambridge based uprising and the excecution of John Stacey and Claence himself in 1478

Question 17

Livery and Maintenance

Answer 17

‘legal retaining’ still allowed in 1468 statute

Question 18

The ‘new yorkists’

Answer 18

Hastings Lord Chamberlain
Herbert 1st Earl of Pembroke
had limited support and upset warwick

Question 19

Reigonal Magnates

Answer 19

Richard duke of Gloucester securing the North, Hastings in the Midlands and Thomas Grey in the South West

Question 20

Finances

Answer 20

Royal commisioners double income from Lancaster, ordinary income increased through professionalisation
Extra ordinary income - French Pension and benevolenes (22,000 in 1475)

Question 21

Local Government

Answer 21

Ross “made use of Talent where he found it, men like Tunsall and Morton
Sheriffs and JP’s
But Acrington Stanley feud continues, not perfect