EVI foreign policy Somerset

Question 1

Somerset FP aims

Answer 1

Wanted an agressive policy with Scotland
Enforce marriage alliance - Mary and Edward
Wanted to peruse France with hostility

Question 2

Somerset and alliance in Scotland

Answer 2

He used process of agressive wooing and agressive courting

Question 3

Somerset and Scotland

Answer 3

He wanted to restore Edward as the heir to the throne and marry him to Mary, queen of Scots

Question 4

Battle of pinkie 1547

Answer 4

September
Britain won this battle however the victory is short lived

Question 5

Somerset and funding campaign
(FP)

Answer 5

Somerset spent £580, 000 pounds on this campaign

Question 6

Key events in somnersets foreign policy

Answer 6

Invaded Scotland 1547
Battle of pinkie
French aided Scotland and took Mary to France - June 1548

Question 7

Somersets tactic

Answer 7

Somerset had attempted to create garrisons across the border however he lacked funding and military power

Question 8

Somerset and debased coin

Answer 8

£537 000 was raised this way between 1547 and 1551

Question 9

Somerset methods of funding the war

Answer 9

• Resources released by dissalussion of chanceries
• Parliment tax
• debasement

Question 10

Somerset FP success of failure

Answer 10

Somerset failed to achieve his aims in securing a marriage between Edward and Mary
However Mary was in France so the aim of taking Scotland is out of reach