Rebellion leadership Flashcards
Who were the three leaders of Cornish rebellion 1497
Michael An Gof - the original leader of the rebellion and a blacksmith
Later it was Thomas Flamank (a gentleman from Bodmin) and Lord Audley (a discontented minor noble)
Who led Lovell and Stafford rebellion 1486? (two leaders)
Viscount Lovell
Sir Thomas and Humphrey Stafford
Who led Lambert Simnel rebellion 1486? (1 leader, 4 supporters)
Robert Symonds (oxfordshire priest)
Was supported by:
The Earl of Kildare,
The Earl of Lincoln
Viscount Lovell >:(
and Margaret of Burgandy
Who led Perkin Warbeck rebellion?
James IV of Scotland - wanted to get Berwick back from England
Emperor Maximillian - emperor of the holy roman empire
Who led Yorkshire rebellion 1489?
First: Robert Chamber (a gentleman of York)
Later: Sir John Agremont, bastard member of the Percy family
Who led Amicable Grant rebellion 1525?
Poverty - “you ask who is our captain… his name is poverty”
Who led the Pilgrimage of Grace 1536?
Lawyer Robert Aske in Yorkshire
Francis Bigod also in Yorkshire
Nicholas Melton in Lincolnshire
Support from Percy, Darcey and Hussey
Who led Silken Thomas Rebellion 1534?
Silken Thomas, son of the Earl of Kildare
Who led Kett’s rebellion 1549? (one person)
Robert Kett, a Norfolk Yeoman however the rebellion was a part of a much wider outbreak of disorder where leadership was low level and low born
Who led the Western Rebellion 1549? (two people)
Initially a commons rising, later led by Sir Humphrey Arundell
Articles of protest were written by Robert Welsh, a cornish vicar
What was the leadership like for Western Rebellion?
Poor - the rebellion moved slowly and allowed themselves to be bogged down in the siege of Exeter
Who led Northumberland’s rising 1553? (1 leader)
John Dudley (Earl of Northumberland)
Who led Wyatt’s rebellion 1554? (3 people)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Earl of Devon
Duke of Suffolk (Lady Jane Grey’s father)
