topic 6

Question 1

month and year henry was crowned king

Answer 1

october 1485

Question 2

month and year henry married elizabeth of york

Answer 2

january 1486

Question 3

why did henry have to ask for a papal dispensation to marry
Elizabeth of York?

Answer 3

she was a distant cousin

Question 4

Why did Henry marry elizabeth of york after he was crowned?

Answer 4

So that it could not be claimed he owed the crown to his wife

Question 5

Give the month and year of the Lovell and Stafford conspiracy.

Answer 5

July 1486

Question 6

Where did the unrest come from and where was the rebellion?
(lovell and staffford)

Answer 6

Dissatisfied Yorkists who had supported Richard rebelled in the
Midlands and north

Question 7

give the month and year Prince Arthur was born.

Answer 7

september 1486

Question 8

Give the month and year of Simnel’s Rebellion.

Answer 8

June 1487

Question 9

Who sent a force of 2.000 mercenaries and money to support the simnel rebellion?

Answer 9

Margaret of Burgundy

Question 10

What was the major battle of Simnel’s Rebellion?

Answer 10

the battle of stoke

Question 11

Why are there similarities drawn from the battle of stoke to the Battle of
Bosworth?

Answer 11

A weak claimant to the throne had been able to attract widespread
support and bring the king to battle. Just like at Bosworth many of
henry’s men held back from fighting until the outcome became
apparent and at first it was not clear who would win - victory took
3 hours

Question 12

Give the month and year of the Yorkshire Rebellion.

Answer 12

April 1489

Question 13

What war did the Yorkshire men not want to pay for?

Answer 13

War in France

Question 14

Who was murdered when he went to collect the tax?

Answer 14

The Earl of Northumberland

Question 15

Month and year of cornish rebellion

Answer 15

May 1497

Question 16

What war did the Cornish men not want to pay for?

Answer 16

War in Scotland

Question 17

Which impoverished noble supported cornish rebellion?

Answer 17

lord audley

Question 18

Give the years that Warbeck was active in his campaign to take
the throne as a pretender’,

Answer 18

1491-1499

Question 19

The signing of what treaty between England and France forced
Warbeck to move to Flanders?

Answer 19

Treaty of Etaples

Question 20

James IV of Scotland turned his back on Warbeck eventually
and offered a marriage between himself and who else?

Answer 20

Henry’s daughter Margaret

Question 21

Give the month and year that Warbeck surrenders.

Answer 21

October 1497

Question 22

What happened to Warbeck in November 1499?

Answer 22

He was hung

Question 23

Give the month and year Prince Arthur died.

Answer 23

April 1502, his wife died in 1503

Question 24

Why did arthur’s death have an impact on Edmund de la Pole and his
Yorkist plot?

Answer 24

Because the future dynasty now rested on 10 year old Prince Henry

Question 25

Where did Edmund de la Pole flee to in 1499?

Answer 25

france

Question 26

Whose family and familial connections did Henry pass 51 Acts
of Attainder against in 1504?

Answer 26

Suffolk family - Henry had refused to make Edmund de la Pole the
Duke of Suffolk

Question 27

Give the month and year Edmund de la Pole was imprisoned in
the Tower.

Answer 27

April 1506

Question 28

How many Knights of the Garter did Henry create?

Answer 28

37

Question 29

What was the fine for having illegal retainers?

Answer 29

£5 per month for each illegal retainer

Question 30

How many councillors were there during Henry’s reign?

Answer 30

200

Question 31

Give two men that were part of Henry’s inner group.

Answer 31

Morton (Lord Chancellor). Fox (Lord Privy Seal), Dynham (Lord
Treasurer)

Question 32

Give the 3 smaller committees Henry VI established.

Answer 32

Court of Requests, Court of General Surveyors, Council Learned in
the Law

Question 33

For local justice, what position did Henry develop?

Answer 33

JPS

Question 34

What did income from crown lands rise to by 1509?

Answer 34

£29.000 to £42.000

Question 35

how much money did feudal aid of prince arthur’s knighting bring?

Answer 35

£30,000