Henry Vii Consolidation Of Power

Question 1

What dates where Henry VII reigns?

Answer 1

1485-1509

Question 2

What earl was Henry VII previously before he became king?

Answer 2

Earl of Richmond

Question 3

What date was the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 3

22nd August 1485

Question 4

Who crowned Henry king in the Battle of Bosworth?

Answer 4

Lord Stanley

Question 5

What rule did Henry VII end becoming king?

Answer 5

Plantagenet rule

Question 6

Where did Henry VII get exiled to and why?

Answer 6

Brittany when he was 14. Edward IV was killing Lancastrian Claimants to the throne

Question 7

What date did Henry VII say his reign started and why?

Answer 7

21st August 1485, fray before Battle of Bosworth so that anyone who thought against him could be deemed a traitor

Question 8

How many knighthoods did he give out in his reign?

Answer 8

11

Question 9

Which two people did he imprison when first getting the crown?

Answer 9

Elizabeth of York (Ed IV daughter) and Earl of Warwick (Ed IV nephew) as they were greater claimants to the throne

Question 10

Who did her first appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy Lancaster?

Answer 10

Sir Reginald Bray

Question 11

Who did Henry first appoint as chamberlain of the household?

Answer 11

Sir William Stanley

Question 12

When was his coronation arranged and why?

Answer 12

30th October, before first Parliament meeting on 7th Nov, shows his kinship was based off hereditary right rather than parliament sanction

Question 13

What was Acts of Attainder?

Answer 13

When the king could take titles, lands and heads away from rebelling nobles. Their heirs would be disinherited. 136 passed, 48 reversed

Question 14

What is tonnage and poundage?

Answer 14

Right to raise revenue for whole reign imports and exports

Question 15

When did Henry VII marry Elizabeth of York?

Answer 15

Jan 1486, he waited a year to prevent assumptions that his crown was brought by his wife and united York and Lancaster. Tudor rose

Question 16

When was prince Arthur born?

Answer 16

Sep 1489

Question 17

What was Bonds and Recognises?

Answer 17

-Bonds: financial rewards
- recognizes: forgetting debts

Question 18

When was the Viscount Lovell and Stafford conspirators?

Answer 18

1486, the first conspiracy

Question 19

What did the Viscount Lovell and Stafford conspiracy miss to be successful?

Answer 19

Support from the heartlands, Margaret Burgandy financial support and a yorkist claimant

Question 20

WWWWWE Viscount Lovell and Staffords?

Answer 20

Who - Francis, Viscount Lovell and Humphrey Stafford
What - tried to raise rebellion in Richard 3rds heartlands and Yorkshire
Where - Yorkshire and Midlands
When - Easter 1486
Why - Richard 3rd supporters
Ending- didn’t raise much support, Lovell escaped, Stafford captured and educated

Question 21

Who was the earl of Lincoln?

Answer 21

John de la Pole

Question 22

When was the Lambert Simnel and Earl of Lincoln conspiracy?

Answer 22

1487

Question 23

Who did Lambert Simnel impersonate?

Answer 23

Initially Richard Duke of York, but then the Earl of Warwick (who Henry had locked up)

Question 24

Where and when was Lambert Simnel/Earl of Warwick crowned king?

Answer 24

Ireland May 1487

Question 25

What relation was John de la pole (Earl of Lincoln) to Richard iii?

Answer 25

Nephew

Question 26

What happened when Henry exhibited the real Earl of Warwick for everyone to see?

Answer 26

Lambert Simnel fled and joined failed plotter Lord Lovell and Margaret of Burgandy in Netherlands who trained him as a prince and paid for a force of Mercanaries to invade England

Question 27

Where did Lambert Simnel and his rebels land ending up to The battle of Stolk field

Answer 27

Cumberland (North-west) and crossed Penines to build support in Yorkshire, unsuccessful

Question 28

When and where was the battle of Stolkfield?

Answer 28

1487, at East Stolk (end of war of the roses)

Question 29

Who led Henry’s army in the battle of Stolkfield?

Answer 29

Earl of Oxford who slayed Earl of Lincoln

Question 30

How long was the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy?

Answer 30

8 years 1491-99

Question 31

Who was Perkin Warbeck impersonating?

Answer 31

Richard Duke of York

Question 32

How did the whole Perkin Warbeck conspiracy start?

Answer 32

Warbeck started impersonating in 1491 in Ireland and was trained by Margaret Burgandy as a Prince where he began to draw courtiers in to the conspiracy

Question 33

What happened in Perkin Warbeck’s first attempt to land in England?

Answer 33

1495, Henry knew due to Sir Robert Clifford. Warbeck fled to James IV in Scotland

Question 34

Who betrays Henry VII?

Answer 34

Sir William Stanley, lord chamberlain

Question 35

What happened in Perkin Warbeck’s second attempt to invade England?

Answer 35

1496, Scottish forces crossed the border but retreated. They had lost hope in Warbeck after James IV arranged to marry Henry’s daughter Margaret

Question 36

What happened in Warbeck’s third and final attempt to invade England?

Answer 36

He wanted to exploit uncertainties by the Cornish Rebellion in 1497 but surrendered. He was treated leniently but executed after trying to escape with the earl of Warwick in 1499

Question 37

Who were Edmund De la pole - Earl of Suffolk, and Richard de la pole (the white rose)?

Answer 37

Brothers of the earl of Lincoln (lambert Simnel conspiracy) and nephew of Rich iii

Question 38

What dates did Suffolk flee England and where to?

Answer 38

Fled to Flanders 1498, persuaded to return but fled again 1501 to refuge at the court of Maximilian

Question 39

What treaty restored the relationship of Henry VII and Margaret of Burgandy and what did this lead to?

Answer 39

Treaty of Windsor 1506 and resulted in Maximilian giving up Edmund de la pole (Earl of Suffolk) who was then imprisoned. He was later killed for treason by Henry viii 1513

Question 40

What happened to Richard De la pole?

Answer 40

‘The white rose’ was left at large but later died in battle 1525