Henry VIII: Foreign Policy

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  • Henry VIII's Foreign Policy
    • 1510: Renewal of Treaty of Etaples
    • 1512: First invasion of France
      • Achieved nothing
      • Used by Ferdinand as a distraction (to invade Navarre)
    • 1513: Second invasion of France
      • Battle of the Spurs, Therouanne, Tournai
        • Nothing was really accomplished! (costly, spent inheritance, nearly a second tax rebellion in Yorkshire, renegotiated pension was lost)
          • Battle of Flodden
    • 1511: Holy League
    • 1513: War with Scotland
      • Battle of Flodden
    • 1514: Ferdinand & Maximilian made treaties with France
      • Wolsey recovered the French pension & secured a marriage alliance (Mary T & King Louis XII)
      • 1514: Had run out of money to continue war
        • Led to: 1. Being unable to exploit the death of James IV (could have become king) 2. Sought peace with France (short-lived marriage)
    • 1517: Treaty of Cambrai (HRE & France) & Duke of Albany
    • 1518: Treaty of London (Tournai was returned) (sold for less than spent on it)
    • 1521: Treaty of Bruges (England & HRE)
      • Henry's Reasons for Peace/Alliance with HRE/Charles: 1. Could improve papal relations 2. Believed he could gain more French land 3. Marriage alliance (Mary & Charles) 4. Run out of money
    • 1512: Field of the Cloth of Gold
    • 1525: Henry 'betrayed' by Charles at the Battle of Pavia
    • 1527: Anti-Imperial French treaty (Amiens) (had to, due to weak position)
      • 1527: Sack of Rome
    • 1529: Peace of Cambrai (France & HRE)
      • 1532: Defensive Alliance (France & England)
        • 1533: Begins the break with Rome
    • 1539: Fear of anti-English Crusades
  • Later Foreign Policy
    • 1542: Invasion of Scotland
      • 1543: Treaty of Greenwich
    • 1543: Anglo-Imperial Alliance
    • 1544: Invasions of Scotland and France
    • 1545: Battle of the Solent
    • 1546: Peace with France

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