Unit 3: Wyatt's Rebellion

Question 1

Year? Context

Answer 1

1554
Mary is Queen, Roman Catholic
planning on marrying Phillip of Spain

Question 2

Religious Causes:

Answer 2

• did not want a catholic restoration

Question 3

Social Causes:

Answer 3

• widespread xenophobia

- economic hardship makes people less tolerant of change and more likely to air grievances

Question 4

Economic Causes:

Answer 4

• decline in cloth industry

Question 5

Political Causes:

Answer 5

• did not want Mary to marry Phillip of Spain
• fear that the queen would be subordinated
• fear that government would be taken over by foreign interests
• local political instability
• younger gentry feared losing career opportunities to Phillips followers

Question 6

Serious?

Answer 6

• London
• Gentry / nobles involvement
• out to replace monarch?
• French involvement was meant to happen, but didnt
• some of the Duke of Nofolks men joined the rebels
• Cooling Castle
• Gravesend Castle
• Bridges burnt
• Co-ordinated risings (3/4 failed tho)
• Parliament advice ignored - told Mary to marry an Englishman

Question 7

Not Serious?

Answer 7

• lots of ‘ifs and buts’
• only co-ordinated rising that took place was Kent
• no French involvement
• took to long to get to London, they had time to prepare
• Spanish didn’t get involved
• Lack of numbers
• January - winter months
• Gardner found out in January about rebellion, and it was meant to take place in March

Question 8

Quote

Answer 8

Local gentry too wound up in their own affairs’ Bindoff

Question 9

Poor Leadership

Answer 9

• Cooling Castle
• Gravesend
• Co-ordinated risings didn’t happen yet they still rebelled

Question 10

Why it failed?

Answer 10

• Co-ordinated risings only occurred in Kent
• French didn’t get involved
• length of time to get to London- they had time to prepare
• lack of support
• January- winter months; days were short and cold
• Gardner found out about rebellion in January which was supposed to take in March