Leaders

Question 1

Lovel leadership

Answer 1

1486

Francis Viscount Lovel (former Lord Chamberlain)
Humphrey Stafford (Yorkist associate)
Sire Thomas Stafford (Yorkist associate)

Question 2

Simnel leadership

Answer 2

1487

Richard Symonds (Oxford priest)
Irish Earl of Kildare
Earl of Lincoln (John de la Pole)

Question 3

Cornish leadership

Answer 3

Thomas Flamank (lawyer)

Question 4

Amicable Grant leadership

Answer 4

Locals below gentry status.

No major leaders were identified because the king agreed pardons.

Protestors told Duke of Norfolk: “You ask who is our captain… his name is Poverty”

Question 5

Silken Thomas leadership

Answer 5

Silken Thomas (son of Earl of Kildare)

Question 6

POG leadership

Answer 6

Robert Aske (lawyer) - led 9 host armies

Nicholas Melton, captain of the Louth rebels (cobbler)

Question 7

Western leadership

Answer 7

Thomas Underhill, who appears to have started disturbances in Courtenay in Devon - tailor

Arundell - fought for Henry V8 in France, reduced to mere gentleman

Underhill and Segar yeomen

Mauder tradesman

9 captains comprised 3 from Devon, 3 Cornish and 3 commoners

Question 8

Kett leaders

Answer 8

Commons rebellion led by Robert Kett, a Norfolk yeoman,

part of a much wider outbreak of disorder across much of England where the leadership was low level and low born

Question 9

Wyatt leadership

Answer 9

Sir Robert Wyatt - had been military strategist to the king

Duke of Suffolk in Leicestershire

Carew in Devon

Croft didn’t try in Hertfordshire - only gathered maximum of 140 men

Question 10

Northumberland leadership

Answer 10

Earl of Northumberland

Question 11

Oxfordshire leadership

Answer 11

Bartholomew Steer - carpenter

Organised by local servants and tradesmen - millers, masons, weavers, bakers

Question 12

Essex leadership

Answer 12

Earl of Essex

Question 13

Warbeck leadership

Answer 13

Perkin Warbeck

tutored by John Taylor (yeoman) to impersonate Richard of York