Rel W Foreign Powers

Question 1

How was the state of war Somerset inherited?

Answer 1

Bad. Both Scot and France in alliance threatened security and succession

Question 2

What did Somerset do with foreign threat?

Answer 2

• Somerset hoped to unite Eng and Scot by marrying ed to Scottish Mary queen of Scot’s
• Somersets army defeated Scot’s – battle of pinkie 1547
• But it proved too expensive to garrison border forts and he failed to prevent french from relieving Edinburgh
• Fr took Mary to France in 1548, to marry the heir to the french throne
• Somersets military strategy proved costly and unpopular
• By 1549 – eng threatened w fr invasion

Question 3

How was England humiliated by foreign powers?

Answer 3

Northumberland negotiated peace, abandoning English garrisons in Scotland, and returning boulogne to France. Ended wars but at humiliating climb down