Edward's consolidation: nobility
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- Created on: 27-02-17 17:29
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- Edward and the nobility: consolidation years
- policy of pardon and conciliation
- Part of "two general principles"
- "Employment, Patronage and reward for nobles of both factions"
- "Pardon and reconciliation for lancastrians"
- "Lancastrians were reluctant to accept his offers"
- "Edward did not have the financial or material resources"
- "Restored the castles to their Lancastrian lords" 1461 and 1462
- Part of "two general principles"
- Beneficiaries of Patronage
- "Earl of Warwick was appointed warden of both the eastern and Western Marches in July 1461"
- "Montagu was......made Earl of Northumberland in 1464"
- "Sir William hastings...given extensive estates in the midlands"
- "Sir William Herbert...was transformed into a prominent noble with an annual income of some £2,400"
- "George and Richard were created Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester... with lands to the value of some £3660"
- Lord Fauconberg- Earl of kent
- Lord Montagu- Earldom of northumberland
- George Neville appointed Archbishop of York
- Warwick became a viceroy in all but name in the north
- Richard Woodville became Earl Rivers
- Sir Hastings appointed as chamberlain
- "Herbert was adavnced to the peerage as Earl of Pembrooke. He was virtually given Wales"
- Exploitation of defeated Lancastrians
- Edward was "hard pressed to recompense his Yorkist supporters... turned to exploiting his defeated Lancastrian enemies"
- "redistribution of titles, offices and estates that he confiscated from at least thirteen Lancastrian peers"
- policy of pardon and conciliation
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