Threats facing Edward IV

Question 1

Bastard of Fauconberg

Answer 1

Thomas Neville attacked London from Kent following Tewkesbury
DEALT WITH:
Commission led by Bourchiers stamped out resistance quickly in July 1471
Fauconberg was captured in Southampton and executed

Question 2

John de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Answer 2

Escaped Battle of Barnet to Essex in May 1473 with support of Louis XI
Invaded Cornwall and stirred up a revolt managed to capture St Michael’s Mount and he was captured in 1474

Sent Bodrugan to deal with Oxford however he was sending supplies to Oxford
Replaced with Fortescue who engaged and negotiated
Oxford surrendered on 15th feb 1474

Question 3

Beauchamp Inheritance

Answer 3

Anne was married to Warwick, 2 daughters Anne and Isabel (Clarence wife)
Anne was ward of Clarence didn’t want her to marry to split inheritance
Clarence hid her and made her kitchen Maid, but failed married Gloucester in 1472

Inheritance should’ve been split 3 ways but Edward broke laws of inheritance
Pronounced Anne and legally dead