To what extent was Edward IV responsible for the loss and regaining of his throne?
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- To what extent was Edward IV responsible for the loss and regaining of his throne?
- Regaining
- Edward is an excellent military leader
- Barnet - Moving soldiers at night to avoid Warwick's artillery
- Tewkesbury Campaign 1471 skilfully executed- death of Prince Edward, Lancs fled
- Skilful strategy when returned
- Pretends he does not want his lands back
- Not stopped by Northumberland
- Lancastrian splits - Warwick distrusted
- Margaret would not trust him with Prince Edward
- Somerset believed they were better off without him
- Warwick losing support
- Committed to an unpopular war with Burgundy
- Burgundy now actively support Edward
- Charles of Burgundy
- Without aid, Edward would have remained in exile
- £20,000 and 36 ships
- Not a big invasion but it was a start
- Charles of Burgundy
- Burgundy now actively support Edward
- Tax increases
- Committed to an unpopular war with Burgundy
- Burgundy now actively support Edward
- Charles of Burgundy
- Without aid, Edward would have remained in exile
- £20,000 and 36 ships
- Not a big invasion but it was a start
- Charles of Burgundy
- Burgundy now actively support Edward
- Committed to an unpopular war with Burgundy
- Committed to an unpopular war with Burgundy
- Defection of Clarence
- Tips the power balance
- Fed up with Warwick as he is not King yet. "Suspected and despised by all" - Arrival
- London
- Attack on London by the ******* of Fauconberge came too late
- Allowed Edward in - control centre
- Allows control of Henry VI - brutally murdered
- Edward is an excellent military leader
- Losing
- Antagonising Warwick
- Marriage with Elizabeth Woodville
- Warkworth pinpoints this as the moment Warwick started plotting against Edward
- Snubbing of the French Ambassadors
- "minimum of gifts" - Carpenter
- Waurin
- Lack of popular support
- 1469 and 1470 resentment against taxation (Carpenter)
- Failure of law and order
- Edward only really mastered finance
- Woodvilles unpopular
- Lord Rivers had estates in Kent trashed
- Antagonism of France
- Threatened invasion of France 1468
- "His Majesty supplies him with men and ships, nothing being omitted to render him victorious" - Milanese Ambassador
- Louis XI backs Warwick
- Would have remained exile
- Antagonism of Montagu
- took away Earldom of Northumberland
- replaced with "magpie's nest" - Warkworth
- Warwick unreasonable
- "excessively greedy"
- Still politically important - decision to seize hanseatic ships
- Master of Varlet
- Manipulation of Clarence
- Louis XI
- "nothing being omitted to render him victorious" Milanese Ambassador
- Montagu treacherous
- Antagonising Warwick
- Regaining
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