Why did Richard III lose the throne?
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- Created on: 16-02-18 11:46
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- Why did Richard III lose the throne?
- The Buckingham Rebellion of 1483
- D of Buckingham defects against Richard, to support Henry Tudor
- Lack of Noble support
- His behaviour would not have in sighted any influx of new noble support - only his loyalists who he'd rewarded continued to support
- D of Buckingham supported Henry Tudor and chose to defect against Richard - potentially motivated by the possibility of higher position
- After failing to gain funds, he had to obtain forced loans from his nobles
- Richard's behaviour
- His usurpation of the throne, and actions to declare his mother to have had affairs making her children illegitimate would have greatly dettered any new noble support.
- The rumours and suspicion he killed the princes in the tower was much alive at this time - people saw him as heartless and ruthless
- His actions against his loyal nobles; Rivers, Grey and Vaughan having them killed and put up for treason made people see him as ruthless and led to his unpopularity
- The Battle of Bosworth Field
- The Earl of Northumberland didn't become involved and/or support Richard - seeing so the Stanley's chose to back the more favoured Tudor
- The Buckingham Rebellion of 1483
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