Henry VII Internal Threats

Question 1

Lovell Conspiracy
(Yorkist Plot)

Answer 1

(1486)
- Yorkist Stafford and Lovell

• Fled to Flanders under Margaret of Burgundy protection
• Led rebellion in Worcester during Northern Progress

-Fled to Culham Abbey

• Reinforcements defeat them in 3 days
• Older brother executed
• Significant threat

Question 2

Yorkshire Rebellion

Answer 2

(1489)
- Sparked by Parliament authorised tax for Brittany military expedition

• Most northerly to pay, also need to fight Scots
• Bad harvests
• Earl of Surrey leads 8000 troops defeat rebels
• Rebels not punished, no more tax
• Armed insurrection
• Significant threat
  Numbers to overwhelm

Question 3

Lambert Simnel
(Pretender)

Answer 3

• Common birth
• Pretended to be Earl of Warwick, leading claimant
• Supported by Margaret of Burgundy
• Crowned as Warwick in Dublin cathdral - legitimacy
• Failed to get domestic support in Lancashire June 1487
• H7 parade real Warwick
• 8000 men easily defeated by H7 12,000
  Simnel forgiven, royal falconer

Question 4

Cornish Rebellion cause

Answer 4

Loan £120,000 through general taxation for military offensive against Scotland supporting Perkin Warbeck
1497

Question 5

Who led the Cornish Rebellion?

Answer 5

An Gof + Thomas Flamank

Question 6

Cornish Rebellion - - outline events

Answer 6

• 15,000 rebels march through Exeter, Saisbury, Winchester, Kent
  -City bolster defence, royal family move to ToL
• Rebels hesitate at Blackheath, X continute

Question 7

Cornish rebellion outcome

Answer 7

• Royal troops recalled from North
• Leaders hanged, drawn and quartered
• Heads boiled, tarred, bidies dismembered displayed in SW disloyal towns
• Substantial threat

Question 8

Perkin Warbeck

Answer 8

(1491-99)
- Impersoned Richard IV, dead

Support of Charles VIII French + HRE + harboured by Margaret

Question 9

Catching Perkin Warbeck

Answer 9

• 1493 trade ban w/ Burgundy (Antwerp!)
• Deafeated in 1495 without royal army need

Welcomed in Scotland 1500 troops lost support

• Failed to capitalise on CR
• Executed 1499

Question 9

Edmund de la Pole

Answer 9

• White Rose
• HRE + Burgundy
• Henry pays HRE £10,000, nothing
• Jan 1505 suspends Burgundy trade
• This threat is being exploited
• £158,000 for Suffolk from HRE son
• 1506 captured
• H8 executes him 1515

Question 10

What are the factors for a threats question?

Answer 10

• Yorkist plots
• Rebellions
• Pretenders

Question 11

What criterion can you use for measuring severity of threats?

Answer 11

• Severity of punishment/reaction
• Longevity of threat
• Support/Numbers (domestic and foreign)
• Resources
• Proximity to ascension
• Proximity to London