Henry 7: Consolidation

Question 1

What battle did Henry 7 win?

Answer 1

Battle of Bosworth

Question 2

When was Bosworth?

Answer 2

22nd August 1485

Question 3

Who did Henry defeat at Bosworth?

Answer 3

Richard III

Question 4

Which houses fought for the crown in the Wars Of The Roses?

Answer 4

House Of York (white rose)
House Of Lancaster (red rose)

Question 5

Was henry 7s claim to the throne strong or weak? Why?

Answer 5

Weak.
Descended from the illegitimate line of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.

Question 6

Who were the Yorkist claimants?

Answer 6

Elizabeth if York (Richards sister)
Edward, Earl of Warwick
John De La Pole

Question 7

Who was Richard III supposed to rule on behalf of?

Answer 7

Edward IV ‘s sons (the Princes in the Tower)

Question 8

Which house was Henry from?

Answer 8

Lancaster

Question 9

Which house was Richard III from?

Answer 9

York

Question 10

Where had Henry been in exile since he was 14 and why?

Answer 10

Brittany (France)
His mother knew he was a claimant so sent him to France to escape the Yorkist king

Question 11

Why was Richard hated?

Answer 11

Was suspected to have killed his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and took their throne after his brothers death. As well as other crimes.

Question 12

Who was William Stanley to Henry?

Answer 12

Step uncle, later the lord Chamberlain and traitor to Henry.
Executed in 1495

Question 13

What was the significance of the Stanley’s at Bosworth?

Answer 13

Provided an army at Bosworth to fight on behalf of Henry. William aided Henry when he was confronted on the battlefield by Richard III. Helping him kill Richard and become king.

Question 14

Henry’s character?

Answer 14

Not brought up to rule
He was shrewd, calculating and obsessed with increasing finance

Question 15

Why did Henry predates his reign?

Answer 15

So that he could say that all those who fought against him at Bosworth were traitors and could be punished for it.

Question 16

Why did Henry marry Elizabeth of York?

Answer 16

Would officially unite the Lancastarians and the Yorkists and help end the Wars of the Roses

Question 17

Why was henry crowned king in October 1846? A week before parliament met?

Answer 17

So it could never be said that Parliament had made Henry King. That he ruled in his own right and not his wife’s.

Question 18

Why did Henry begin a progress throughout the country?

Answer 18

To secure his position and to gain admiration in more doubtful parts of the kingdom (like the North)

Question 19

Why did Henry want the backing of the Pope?

Answer 19

To gain religious stability as Henry didn’t want to challenge the church’s authority.

Question 20

What did many Yorkists see Henry’s ride to power as?

Answer 20

Usurption

Question 21

What was Edward, Earl of Warwick’s claim to the throne?

Answer 21

Son of Edward IV’s brother, the Duke of Clarence.

Question 22

What did Henry do with the Earl of Warwick at first? (1485)

Answer 22

Had him imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1485.

Question 23

What did Henry do with Edward Earl of Warwick in 1499?

Answer 23

He was beheaded for conspiring with Perkin Warbeck

Question 24

What was John De La Pole, Earl of Lincoln’s claim to the throne?

Answer 24

Nephew of Edward IV and Richard III

Question 25

What happened to John De La Pole?

Answer 25

Worked with Henry until 1485 when he fled to Bergundy. Helped Lambert Simnel’s cause.

Question 26

What battle did Lincoln die at?

Answer 26

Stoke

Question 27

Why was Lincoln (Yorkist claimant) part of the simnel rebellion and plan?

Answer 27

He knew that simnel was a pretender, he’d probably kill simnel and take the crown for either himself or Warwick.

Question 28

Who was Margaret of Bergundy?

Answer 28

Sister of Edward IV and Richard III
House of York
Mother-in-law to the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian

Question 29

Name some of the threats to Henry’s Position:

Answer 29

Lovell and the staffords
Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck
Earl of Warwick and Earl of Lincoln
‘The White Rose’ (Edmund (Suffolk) and Richard De La Pole

Question 30

When was the Lovell and Stafford rebellion?

Answer 30

1486

Question 31

Why did Lovell ans Stafford rebel?

Answer 31

Lovell (Richard lover) and Stafford thought Henry wouldent give them any local power and was bitter about Richards usurption.

Question 32

Which one of Lovell and Stafford had been attained?

Answer 32

Lovell
So he could be executed without trial and had his title, money and estates taken away from him.

Question 33

What did lovell and Stafford try to do?

Answer 33

Raise support in Yorkshire and the Midlands.
Raise forces against Henry

Question 34

Lovell and Stafford were in sanctuary. what does this mean?

Answer 34

A sacred place where, under medieval law, fugitive were immune from arrest

Question 35

What happened to Lovell and Stafford?

Answer 35

Lovell: managed to escape to Flanders

Stafford: captured and executed. Although his younger brother and accomplice Thomas Stafford was pardoned as an act of clemency

Question 36

Why was the Lovell and Stafford rebellion a flop? But important?

Answer 36

Self interested motives meant that a lack of support and no foreign aid.

It showed the possibility of disorder and rebellion in England

Question 37

Who did Sminel claim to be?

Answer 37

(Originally Richard Duke of york: youngest prince in the Tower)

The Earl of Warwick

Question 38

What was Henry’s response to simnel impersonating Warwick?

Answer 38

He displayed the real Warwick (who he had locked in the Tower) publicly

Question 39

Who supported Lambert Simnel?

Answer 39

The Irish: he was crowned Edward IV, given soldiers.

Scotland: given an army and was pursuaded to march towards England.

Margaret of Bergundy: gave him an army (gave 2000 mercenaries to invade England)

Question 40

Who fought at the battle of stoke?

Why was the battle significant?

Answer 40

Lambert vs Henry

It showed that there was unrest and brought about the end of the wars of the Roses. Started off Henry’s paranoia