Tudors: Intro
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- Created on: 18-05-21 12:03
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- Henry VII
- Pretenders and Resistors
- Yorkist loyalists want the Lancastrians off the throne
- Henry seized power on the battlefield which could be seen as invalid
- His claim to the throne was weak compared with the Earl of Warwick and others
- Others just wanted power/the throne for themselves
- Battle of Bosworth
- When?
- August 1485
- Richard III killed in battle
- End of Plantagenet rule
- Henry Tudor claimed the throne
- Beginning of Tudor rule
- When?
- Potential problems
- Claim to the throne
- Descended through the female line via his mother (Lady Margaret Beaufort)
- Henry was the Lancastrian claimant as no one else could fulfil the role
- Victorious battle brought him the throne
- Yorkist Loyalists
- Richard III did not receive a formal burial in Leicester- potentially angered supporters
- Claim to the throne
- Consolidation of power
- Dated his reign to the day before Bosworth
- Yorkist fighters labelled as traitors
- Publicly rewarded supporters
- Had Elizabeth of York and the Earl of Warwick detained due to claim to the throne
- Coronation took place week before first parliament
- Solidified claim
- Acts of Attainder
- Yorkist fighters' property forfeiting to the crown
- Parliament granted Henry the customs revenue of tonnage and poundage for life
- Made key appointments to council and household
- Sir Reginald Bray=Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Sir William Stanley=Chamberlain of the Household
- Dated his reign to the day before Bosworth
- Unification of Lancaster and York
- Tudor Rose
- Pretenders and Resistors
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