Threat of Lamber Simnel
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- Created on: 30-12-20 15:22
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- Nature of the threat of Lambert Simnel 1487
- Events
- 1. Simnel pretended to be the Earl of Warwick
- trained by a Yorkist priest from Oxford: Richard Simons
- 2. Margaret Duchess of Burgundy sent 2,000 german mercenaries
- 3. Went to Ireland, where the Earl of Kildare proclaimed him King in Dublin
- 4. Landed in northwest of England with approx 8,000 men
- 5. worryingly, Henry Percy, the most powerful noble did nothing to prevent Simnel + remained neutral
- 1. Simnel pretended to be the Earl of Warwick
- Henry paraded the true Earl of Warwick who had been in the tower to show that Simnel was a pretender
- Very successful in ending the threat
- Simnel = captured + sent to work in the Royal kitchen
- (later promoted to King's Falconer) = earned favour in royal eyes
- 28 Acts of Attainder passed against traitors = reinforced wealth for the monarch
- but Yorkists claims still remained
- Simnel = captured + sent to work in the Royal kitchen
- Very successful in ending the threat
- Battle of Stoke
- Henry army = 12,000 Simnel army = 8,000
- Henry's army had superior armour
- 1/2 Yorkists killed
- 1/4 Lancastrians killed
- People killed: Earl of Lincoln + Lovell
- Simnel = captured + sent to work in the Royal kitchen
- (later promoted to King's Falconer) = earned favour in royal eyes
- Armies met at Stoke in Nottinghamshire
- Results
- People killed: Earl of Lincoln + Lovell
- 28 Acts of Attainder passed against traitors = reinforced wealth for the monarch
- Threat
- Warwick has greater claim than Henry
- Has foreign support from Burgundy and Ireland
- Henry Percy does not intervene = already confirms instability of crown
- Battle of Stoke is closeley won
- Not a threat
- Henry able to prove he is a pretneder
- Henry gives mercy to Simnel = not worries about him rebelling again
- Henry has greater army
- Events
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