Henry VII

Question 1

Names of the two warring houses during the Wars of the Roses

Answer 1

Yorkists and Lancastrians

Question 2

When was the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 2

22nd August 1485

Question 3

Why was Henry’s claim to the throne weak?

Answer 3

• illegitimate strain
• distant
• from his mothers side

Question 4

Who proclaimed Henry as king?

Answer 4

Lord Stanley

Question 5

What aspects of Richard III’s rule were unpopular?

Answer 5

• usurper
• rumours he murdered princes and poisoned wife
• didn’t rely on nobles
• continued war in Scotland

Question 6

What was Henry’s main goal?

Answer 6

Ending the political instability caused by the War of Roses.

Question 7

Describe Henry’s character

Answer 7

• respected
• intelligent
• greedy
• untrusting
• not popular
• shrewd
• miserly

Question 8

Name some people Henry trusted

Answer 8

• Margaret Beaufort
• Jasper Tudor
• John Morton
• Elizabeth of York

Question 9

Henry’s main aims

Answer 9

• control of the nobility
• producing an heir
• stabilising England
• increasing finances
• halting war and conflict
• establish his right to the throne

Question 10

What did Henry do to establish the Tudor dynasty?

Answer 10

• marriage to Elizabeth of York
• coronation
• called parliament
• predated his reign

Question 11

How did Henry legitimise his reign?

Answer 11

Dated it to the 21st August, 1485 so that Yorkists could be declared as traitors and tried for treason. The crown could then take Yorkist property.

Question 12

When was Henry’s coronation?

Answer 12

30th October, 1485

Question 13

What happened in Henry’s coronation?

Answer 13

• anointed by God’s grace
• England’s nobles taking a public oath of loyalty

Question 14

When did Henry first convene parliament?

Answer 14

7th November, 1485 (strategic as he had already been crowned and so he was no dependent upon a parliamentary sanction)

Question 15

When was henry’s marriage?

Answer 15

18 January, 1486 (strategically King before marriage so that his authority was not linked to Yorkists)

Question 16

Who did Lambert Simnel pretend to be?

Answer 16

Edward, Earl of Warwick

Question 17

Who welcomed Simnel and where?

Answer 17

Earl of Kildare, Ireland

Question 18

What did the Earl of Kildare do for Simnel?

Answer 18

Crowned him King of England

Question 19

Who led the first challenge to Henry?

Answer 19

Francis, Viscount Lovell and Humphrey and Thomas Stafford

Question 20

When was the Lovell rebellion?

Answer 20

Easter 1486

Question 21

What was the motivation behind the Lovell rebellion?

Answer 21

The three men had fought for Richard III and prospered under his rule.

Question 22

What happened to the three men in Lovell rebellion?

Answer 22

Lovell - fled to Flanders
Humphrey - arrested and executed
Thomas - pardoned

Question 23

What did the Lovell rebellion lead Henry to realise about security?

Answer 23

• he was in a weak position internationally -> feared power of France and other countries that might profit from Yorkist rule

Question 24

What did the failure of the Lovell rebellion teach Yorkists?

Answer 24

They needed a Yorkist prince to contend Henry’s rule

Question 25

When did Henry know about Lambert Simnel?

Answer 25

Nov 1486

Question 26

What did Henry do to evade the threat of Simnel?

Answer 26

Paraded the real earl of Warwick through the streets of London.

Question 27

Which two main countries supported Simnel?

Answer 27

Ireland and Burgundy