Rebellions 1549-1571 Question
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- Created on: 04-05-18 10:06
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- Rebellions in the years 1549-1571 stemmed from a weakness in central government
- Elizabeth I
- Northern Rebellion, 1569
- Main causes
- Religious
- Political
- Economic
- Key people
- Duke of N
- Said he was rebelling for religious reasons
- Duke of Norfolk
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Robert Dudley, Leicester
- Duke of N
- Government response
- Rebels turned back north when they heard about the size of the army
- 450 rebels, executed, inclu Duke of N and Duke of Norfolk
- Untitled
- Information leaked too soon, so response was quick
- Rebels were devout catholic
- Aimed to replace Elizabeth with Mary Queen of Scots
- Duke of Norfolk would marry MQOS
- Northern families fearful of Cecil
- Felt that their powers and feudal system in decline
- Main causes
- Northern Rebellion, 1569
- Edward VI
- Kett's Rebellion, 1549
- Main causes
- Economic and Social
- Religious (to some extent)
- relating to the clergy
- Did not stem from a weakness in central government
- Against enclosures
- Somerset gave the people false hope (promised what he couldn't achieve)
- Leader - Robert Kett
- originally a target but later sympathised with protesters
- Offered to lead to rebels against Somersets government
- collapse of cloth trade led to unemployment
- Governments response
- response was initially peaceful - offered pardons
- Final response involved army of 12,000 led by Duke of N
- Kett and 49 others executed
- Main causes
- Western Rebellion, 1549
- Leader - Arundell and Welsh
- Main causes
- Economic
- Sheep taxes
- Taxation on food, result of bad harvest of 1548
- Religious
- Opposition to First Book of Common Prayer
- William Body, murdered by the rebels
- Angered by attempts to remove catholic symbols
- Wanted Latin mass restored
- Regional Identify
- Cornwall - land a part from rest of the country
- Own language in Cornwall
- Economic
- Government response
- Slow response - Somserset underestimate seriousness
- Cornwall far away
- troops needed elsewhere
- Rebellion crushed in August, by army led by Lord Russell
- Slow response - Somserset underestimate seriousness
- Kett's Rebellion, 1549
- Mary I
- Wyatt Rebellion, 1554
- Main causes
- Religious
- Leader - Thomas Wyatt
- Against Spanish marriage
- Intended to replace Mary with Edward Courtenay
- marry him to Princess Elizabeth
- originally supposed to be 4 uprising, but only Wyatt able to gain support
- Kent, Welsh border, Leicester shire, Devon
- Leicester shire (LJG father)
- Kent, Welsh border, Leicester shire, Devon
- marched into London, but not able to gain support
- Government response
- Quick- rebellion put down in a week
- showed support for Mary was strong
- Main causes
- Northumberland's coup, 1553
- Main causes
- Religious
- Political
- Duke of N feared catholic restoration, as did Edward VI
- The Devise
- changed the line of succession (exlcu Mary and Elizabeth)
- Named LJG and her male heirs as successor
- The coup
- LJG crowned queen after Edwards death
- Lasted 9 days
- However, many believed Mary was the rightful queen
- Outside of London, support for Mary was low
- LJG crowned queen after Edwards death
- Duke of N response/ failure
- Mary not captured, so able to gain support
- Later, Duke of N marched to Cambridge to arrest Mary, with 12,000
- Untitled
- Main causes
- Wyatt Rebellion, 1554
- Elizabeth I
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