Edward
- Created by: cmarriott
- Created on: 03-03-17 10:44
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- How might Edward IV's style of kingship affect his chances of success as king after 1471?
- Concentrated power on Nobles
- nobles had previously asserted their own claims to power
- Edward tightened control over the unstable nobles
- the dynamic between him and his nobles contrasted greatlywith the ineffective management of Henry VI’s impotent reign,
- He and the nobles set up local counsels
- Strengthening and renewing the treasury and economic techniques
- Under Edward IV, England finally joined the general economic upturn of the rest of Europe
- Treaty of Picquigny,a 1475 treaty with France provided both immediate and long-term incomefor the English crown
- Edward’s use of taxes to fund a war he did not really fight led to the questioning of his ability to manage funds
- Standardising and expanding the justice system
- expansion and institutionalization of the administration of justice played a big part in Edwards Kingship
- he wanted it to expand to settle land disputes
- allowed for the extension of the crown’s authority
- Expansion of government bodies
- Historians see it as a new monarchy - he began ruling in a different way
- created a strong and active monarchy
- alliance formed through the marriageof his sister Margaret to Charles the Great of Burgundy and provided the necessary power base to compete with France
- Concentrated power on Nobles
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