How did Henry VII deal with the problem of the nobility?
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- How did Henry VII deal with the problem of the nobility?
- Patronage
- buying loyalty eg. giving positions of power.
- eg. Earl of Oxford
- buying loyalty eg. giving positions of power.
- Order of the Garter
- Knights given the title sir but not any land to devote loyalty but not lose territory.
- Robert Willooughby
- Knights given the title sir but not any land to devote loyalty but not lose territory.
- Appointments to the King’s Council and the Great Council
- keep friends close eg. Morton and Bray
- Acts of Attainder
- law that takes land if disloyal and gives it back if good.
- 48 retainers reversed
- law that takes land if disloyal and gives it back if good.
- Bonds and recongisances
- financial contracts to ensure loyalty and payment required if broken.
- 36/42 noble families gave bonds and/or recognisances
- eg. Thomas greyl
- 36/42 noble families gave bonds and/or recognisances
- financial contracts to ensure loyalty and payment required if broken.
- Feudal Dues
- could demand money for relief, married and wardship. method to ensuring good behaviour
- Katherine Duchess of Buckingham fined £7000 for marrying without kings permission
- could demand money for relief, married and wardship. method to ensuring good behaviour
- Laws against retaining
- nobles fined if they had over the limit on soldiers
- limits capacity to fight Henry
- Lord Burgavenny fined £70,550
- limits capacity to fight Henry
- nobles fined if they had over the limit on soldiers
- Crown lands
- Henrys land that he avoided giving to nobles
- Earl of Warwicks lands given to the crown
- Henrys land that he avoided giving to nobles
- Patronage
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