Edward VI: Foreign policy under Northumberland

Question 1

Factors influencing Northumberland’s foreign policy

Answer 1

Northumberland was concerned with domestic financial problems - emphasised by ending the French/Scottish War. (Treaty of Bolougne 1550)

Question 2

French/Scotland

Answer 2

Northumberland withdrew from Boulogne under the Treaty of Boulogne in 1550

Scared the HRE, didnt want an anglo-french alliance directed against them

Anglo-French relations consolidated by the Betrothal of Edward VI and Henry II’s daughter (didnt take place)

Question 3

HRE

Answer 3

Alliance with the natural enemy and the HRE was isolated more and more