Why is it surprising that Henry VII got to the throne?
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- Created on: 06-04-17 16:07
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- Why is it surprising that Henry VII got to the throne?
- Good Luck
- relied on and was saved by a lot of luck
- could have been killed several times
- Stanley family joined him not Richard III at Bosworth
- Family
- had no siblings or powerful cousins to support him and help him to the throne
- only his uncle Jasper Tudor - loyal, but childless
- no heirs of his own yet, and unmarried - possible succession problems
- Youth spent in Exile
- had been a ward of the Yorkist king
- had lived far from court in Wales then Brittany
- did not know his nobles
- had been under the control of the Duke of Brittany - almost traded
- penniless - relied on the Duke
- also reliant on the French king as his sponsor for money, fleet, army
- Weak claim to the throne
- had a weak, even illegitimate claim
- many rivals with stronger claims who could challenge him
- came from a line which had been declared illegitimate
- as a usurper, he could easily be repaced by another usurper
- multiple rivals with better claims
- Edward,Earl of Warwick
- John and Edmund De la Pole
- Revolts
- risk from his enemies, such as the Yorkists
- others with claims to the throne
- pretenders - large number of dead people they could impersonate
- Lambert Simenl
- Perkin Warbeck
- foreign courts would also support pretenders, trying to destabilise England
- Good Luck
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