Foreign Policy Flashcards
Main aims and objectives of Henry’s foreign policy
(5)
- Protect England from invasion
- Gain recognition from foreign powers
- Lead role in European affairs
- Improve trade
- Ensure england financially secure through diplomacy of foreign policy
Protect england from invasion successes
Crushed threat from Perkins/Warbeck
Success in cutting off support for burgundy’s policy to replace with a Yorker
Protected England from invasion by de la pole
Was not invaded by any foreign power
Defeated rebels
Protect england from invasion failures
Foreign powers such as Scotland, Ireland gave support and protection to usurpers
Brittany defeated so threat across channel from France = chose wrong alliance with Spain?
Ireland supported simnel in his rebellion = dangerous as Ireland a close neighbour
Gain recognition from foreign powers successes
Medina del campo
Treaty of Windsor
Treaty of Redon
Treaty of etaples
Intercursus magnus
Gain recognition from foreign powers failures
Medina del campo : Death of Arthur/phillip/isabella of Castile undermined his recognition and meant he had to keep negotiating = further shows he chose wrong alliance?
Didn’t take advantage of his own widower status to further cement a european relation
Lead role in european affairs successes
Used for support in Breton crisis against France
European countries sought his friendship or neutrality
Lead role in european affairs failures
England military weaknesses meant not a great player : england was a bystander whereas Spanish raised armies to conquer Granada, France and Spain both involved in italian wars
Rejection from league of cambrai 1508 = irrelevant in Europe?
Failed treaty of medina del campo
Improve trade successes
1509 england trade boosted with Low Countries and France
Intercursus malus 1506
Henry died solvent
France gave England £159k
Improve trade failures
Intercursus Magnus 1496 did restore trade BUT cost the country
^shows henrys prepared to put aside this aim to achieve political/diplomatic agenda
^Maximilian + Phillip offered warbeck hospitality which meant relations deteriorated
Henry gambled on putting an embargo on english burgundy trade
Ensure england financially secure successes
Treaty of etaples
Only had one war which ended well for henry
Medina del campo - Spanish alliance
1509 England on good terms with Europe
Ensure england financially secure failures
Breton crisis
Feared France by pursuing diplomacy with Low Countries and Spain - showed insecurities and wrong aim/alliance
Ferdinand - unreliable ally - issue of dowry of Catherine
Phillip died- leading alliance in tatters and upset Ferdinand
Treaty of etaples 1492
(Gain recognition from foreign powers)
Charles agreed to end his support for the Yorkist Pretender Perkin Warbeck, in return for being recognised as ruler of the Duchy of Brittany
£159k to UK troops from France to be removed from Brittany
Medina del campo
(Gain recognition from foreign powers)
Medina del Campo - secured with marriage alliance between Prince Arthur and
Catherine of Aragon
HOWEVER Henry was abandoned as spain focused on Grenada and marriage alliance failed with the death of Prince Arthur
Breton crisis
France wanted to annex Brittany but Henry was indebted to Brittany and had a claim to the French throne so a strong France wouldn’t be good for Henry
Treaty of etaples ended Breton crisis
French would keep Brittany, but in return they would end any support for Perkin Warbeck
Henry turned losing situation into a winning one by ensuring peace with France and dynastic and economic security
Intercursus Magnus
(Gain recognition from foreign powers)
Intercursus Magnus secured a trade embargo with burgundy, in which granted them
Edmund De la Pole
