Edward's Foreign Policy
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- Created on: 09-11-20 19:06
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- Edward's foreign policy
- Northumber-land
- reduced foreign policy expenditure
- ended the wars with Scotland and France
- returned Boulogne to France
- was humiliating but brought security
- Boulogne was very expensive to maintain
- the French did pay £133,333 to recover the port
- abandoned the garrisons in Scotland, the financial benefit outweighed fears
- Somerset
- 1547 inherited a ruinous foreign policy from Henry
- aggressive approach towards Scotland
- reassert ancient claim of Edward I to the Scottish throne
- reinforce the marriage of Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots and unite Scotland and England
- in this situation Henry = France but Somerset= Scotland
- build and garrison a number of forts south of scot and force into submission
- defeated the scots at the battle of pinkie
- but forts were expensive to garrison
- could not get big parts like Dunbar and Edinborough
- underestimated French involvement failed to block Firth of Forth so the French could relieve Edinborough
- gained young Mary and in 1548 was to marry Dauphin, heir to the French the French throne
- dangerous consequences as he engaged in military strategies that were unaffordable
- failed to secure the marriage
- deteriorating relationship with France proposed a threat of war in 1549 when England was very vulnerable
- Northumber-land
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