Richard of Gloucester's coup and the consequences, 1483 Flashcards
What was set up, allegedly largely rejecting the will of Edward IV, and was dominated by the Woodvilles?
Minority council
What title was given to Richard of Gloucester after his brother’s death?
Protector
What were the Woodvilles anxious to organise as quickly as possible?
Edward V’s coronation
Whose dispute with Dorset led him to oppose the Woodvilles in the minority council?
Lord Hastings
Who arrested Anthony Woodville and Richard Grey the morning after dining with them at Stony Stratford?
Richard of Gloucester
On which day did Gloucester, Buckingham and Edward V enter London?
4 May 1483
What did the minority council refuse to agree that Rivers and Richard Grey had committed?
Treason
Which new and later date did the council set for Edward V’s coronation after Gloucester’s arrival?
22 June 1483
Who did Richard make Chief Justice and Chamberlain in Wales as well as controller of royal castles there?
Buckingham
What did Gloucester order to be sent to him from the north, especially York, in early June?
Military reinforcements
When did Gloucester arrest Hastings, Lord Stanley and John Morton, on charges of treason?
13 June 1483
Who, backed by armed men, persuaded the Queen to allow the Duke of York to leave sanctuary?
Archbishop Thomas Bourchier
Who preached the ‘rightful’ title of Gloucester to the crown at St Paul’s Cross on 22 June 1483?
Ralph Shaw
Who did Buckingham address on 24 June 1483 in support of Richard of Gloucester’s claim to the throne?
Mayor of London
Who was it alleged that Edward IV had been pre-contracted to marry before Elizabeth Woodville?
Lady Eleanor Butler
Who was excluded from the succession on the grounds of his father’s attainder for treason?
Edward of Warwick
Where were Rivers, Grey and Vaughan executed on 25 June 1483 on Gloucester’s orders?
Pontefract
When did Gloucester take the throne and was formally acknowledged as King Richard III?
26 June 1483
Which family is it argued that Gloucester was afraid of in 1483?
Woodvilles
Which powerful elder step-son of Edward IV was using the royal treasure to equip a fleet in 1483?
Thomas Grey
Who was put in charge of a fleet that was being assembled in 1483?
Edward Woodville
Whose death was alleged that the Woodville family had been heavily involved in?
George of Clarence
What might Gloucester have feared because the new king had been raised by the Woodvilles?
Edward V’s minority
What did Gloucester allege that the Woodvilles had attempted to do through an ambush on his journey to London?
Kill him
What has it been suggested that Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 out of fear of losing?
northern estates
Which son of Montagu was Richard’s ward and whose lands he held only as long as he lived?
George Neville
When did George Neville die without any children?
4 May 1483
Who coordinated rebellion against Richard III through secret messages to Elizabeth Woodville?
Margaret Beaufort
Where did Buckingham’s rebellion start ten days too early, alerting John Howard?
Kent
Which loyal supporter of Richard III was made Duke of Norfolk just two days after Richard became king?
John Howard
Which Earl of Lincoln and nephew of Richard III became a prominent supporter of the regime?
John de la Pole
Which 4th Earl of Northumberland was a prominent northerner that actively supported Richard III?
Henry Percy
Whose marriage to the mother of Henry Tudor meant that his loyalty was always questionable?
Lord Stanley
Which prisoner played a major role in persuading Buckingham to rebel in Autumn 1483?
John Morton
Who were the risings from late September 1483 initially intended to restore to the throne?
Edward V
When was an unsuccessful attempt made to free the royal princes from the Tower?
late July 1483
Who, according to Vergil and More, executed the murder of the princes in the Tower on Richard III’s orders?
James Tyrell
Which lieutenant of the Tower of London allegedly (Vergil) refused Richard III’s orders to kill the princes?
Robert Brackenbury
Which group regarded Richard III as a usurper and wanted revenge for Edward IV’s children?
Edward IV’s household
Who attempted to rescue the Princes from the Tower and Edward IV’s daughters from sanctuary?
Sir John Cheney
Which uprising in late 1483 was largely led by gentry from southern English counties and the Woodvilles?
Buckingham’s rebellion
Who joined and later became the focus of the rebellion of 1483 but failed to land in England?
Henry Tudor
What was one of the main reasons for the failure of Buckingham’s Rebellion in late 1483?
Poor co-ordination
What did Richard III have that warned him of the 1483 rebellion?
Spy network
Who had a distant claim to the throne through Thomas of Woodstock?
Buckingham
Where was Buckingham executed on 2 November 1483 after being captured in Wales?
Salisbury
What did 104 persons connected with Buckingham’s rebellion suffer in the parliament of 1484?
Attainder
What was the total value of the confiscated lands Richard granted to his loyal, mainly northern followers in 1484?
£12,000
Which prominent northern and servant of Richard III was granted southern lands to the value of £650 per annum?
Richard Ratcliffe
Where did Buckingham fail to gather sufficent support for the rebellion in October 1483?
Wales
