HENRY VII - REBELLIONS

Question 1

How many rebellions were there under Henry VII?

Answer 1

Five
Stafford & Lovell 1486, Stoke Field/Lambert Simnel 1486, Yorkshire 1489, Perkin Warbeck 1497 and Cornwall 1497

Question 2

What was the Yorkshire Rebellion?

Answer 2

-1489
-Response to the “Great Tax” levied to fund the campaign on Brittany
-Rebellion broke out in April, leading to the murder of Northumberland.
-Earl of Surrey defeated the rebels.
-Henry was less lenient with further rebellions.

Question 3

What was the Stafford and Lovell rebellion?

Answer 3

-1486
-Dynastic rebellion led by Humphrey and Thomas stafford and Viscount Lovell
-Brewing discontent against Tudor house proving allegiance to the Yorkist cause still evident in North and midlands, strongholds of Yorkist sentiment.
-No significant loss for Henry.

Question 4

What was the Lambert Simnel/Battle of Stoke Field rebellion?

Answer 4

1486
-Simnel promoted as Earl of Warwick
-Gained support of English and Irish nobles such as John de la Pole and the Earl of Kildare, who was instrumental in Henry’s control of Ireland.
-Revealed dynastic instability
-8,000 vs. 12,000

Question 5

What was the Perkin Warbeck rebellion?

Answer 5

-Attempted siege of Exeter with a small peasant army in 1497
-Failure and was put down easily, leading to Warbeck’s arrest and execution in 1499.
-Warbeck enjoyed considerable foreign support from Maximilian I, James IV and Margaret of Burgundy
-Truce of Ayton in 1497 prevented Scottish support of Warbeck, and would later become the Treaty of Perpetual Peace in 1503

Question 6

What was the Cornish Rebellion?

Answer 6

1497
-A rebellion led by Thomas Flamank and An Gof against H7’s levy of a doubled fifteenths and tenths tax against the county of Cornwall to fund a campaign in the Northern Marches.
-Army of 15,000vs 250000