Henry VII Consol of power

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  • Henry VII consolidation of power
    • Initial actions
      • Backdated reign
        • 21st August 1485
          • Saw those who fought against Henry as traitors
            • Acts of Attainders passed giving Henry land and decreasing size of nobility.
      • Marriage to Elizabeth of York
        • Jan 16th 1486
        • United the two houses to ease tensions
        • Papal Dispensation need as pair were distant cousins
        • Introduction of Tudor Rose
      • Coronation before first parliament.
        • Coronation - 30th Oct 1485
        • Parliament - 7th Nov 1485
      • Publicly rewards supporters
        • 11 knighthoods conferred
        • Earl of Oxford became a major landowner in East Anglea
        • Duke of Bedford given back his welsh estates
          • Both of these passed in first parliament.
            • Earl of Oxford became a major landowner in East Anglea
      • Dealing with Yorkists
        • Arrested Earl of Warwick as stronger claimant
          • Ensured no Yorkist figurehead
        • Earl of Surrey kept in prison until 1489 until Henry convinced of loyalty
        • Key Yorkist appointments to court
          • Earl of Westmorland
        • Bonds and Recognises
          • Viscount Beauchmont
      • Succession
        • Prince Arthur born Sept 1486
          • Ensured heir to throne and Tudor dynasty
    • Control of nobles
      • Bonds and Recognises
        • Legal aid to ensure good behaviour
          • 36/62 nobles families tied by bonds
          • Following Bosworth Northumberland had to pay £10,000 as guarantee of loyalty
      • Act of Attainders
        • Land owner guilty of rebellion: lost title and land
        • Declared against Richard and supporters like Roger Wake
          • In Henry's first two parliaments
            • Passed 138
      • Patronage
        • Thomas Stanley given land in Lancashire
        • Reginald Bray  accumulated land worth £10000
        • Oxford given lands in East Anglia
      • Fuedal dues
        • 1486  Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Buckingham, was fined around £7,000 for marrying without permission
        • Edward, Duke of Buckingham, was fined about £7,000 for entering his inheritance in 1498
      • Retaining
        • 1506 Lord Burgavenny £70,550 fine for retaining
        • 1504 Act had a penalty of £5 per month per illegal retainer
        • Oxford fined 15,000 marks for retaining in 1504
      • Order of the Garter
        • Granted 37 knighthoods
          • Bray and Oxford
    • Rebellions
      • Lovell and Stafford
        • 1486 - early in his reign
        • Tried to raise  army in heartland of Richard III
        • Significant as shows little enthusiasm for Yorkist
        • No foreign intervention
      • Lambert Simnel
        • 1487 posed as earl of Warwick
        • crowned King Edward in Ireland 1487
        • Put together by Lincoln and supported by Burgundy
          • resulted in the Battle of Stoke
            • 1487
            • Led by Earl of Oxford
            • resulted in death of Lincoln
            • Lambert Simnel
              • 1487 posed as earl of Warwick
              • crowned King Edward in Ireland 1487
              • Put together by Lincoln and supported by Burgundy
                • resulted in the Battle of Stoke
                  • 1487
                  • Led by Earl of Oxford
                  • resulted in death of Lincoln
      • Perkin Warbeck
        • 1490 - 1497
        • Richard duke of York
        • William Stanley
          • Lord Chamberlain
          • Serious threat
        • Margaret of Burgundy trained to be Yorkist prince
        • Attempted landing 1495 fails and flees to Scotland
    • Finances
      • Ordinary revenue
        • Crown Lands
        • Feudal dues
        • Custom duties
        • Legal dues
      • Extraordinary revenue
        • Bonds and Recognisances
        • Loans and Benevolences
        • Clerical taxes
    • International recognition
      • Scotland
        • 1502 Treaty of Perpetual peace
        • 1497 Truce at Ayton
      • France / Brittany
        • 1489 Treaty of Redon
        • France - powerful
        • 1492 Treaty of Etaples
      • Burgundy
        • Important trade
        • 1496 Intercursus Magnus
        • 1506 Treaty of Windsor
      • Spain
        • 1489 - Treaty of Medina del Campo
          • Marriage agreement
        • 1506 Treaty of Winsor
      • Ireland
        • Yorkist sympathiser crowns pretenders
        • Earl of Kildare

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