Henry VII: Rebellions

Viscount Lovel rebellion 1486

• Led by Francis, Viscount Lovell and Humphrey Stafford. Lovell tried to raise a rebellion in Yorkshire whilst Stafford tried to raise forces against Henry in the Midlands.
• Lovell managed to escape the king’s forces but Stafford was captured and executed, though his younger brother and accomplice, Thomas, was pardoned
• It was easily suppressed as there was little enthusiasm for a Yorkist rising

2.2 Lambert Simnel 1486-1487.

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• Simnel impersonated the Earl of Warwick, the leading Yorkist claimant despite Henry having the real Warwick imprisoned in the tower. He travelled to Ireland, where he was crowned as King Edward VI I Dublin. The earl of Lincoln fled abroad to join the rebels, and the Duchess of Burgundy provided 2,000 mercenaries, because she was Edward IV’s sister, and would support any Yorkist claimant, regardless of the fact they were an imposter.
• Henry paraded the real Warwick around London and confined Elizabeth Woodville to a nunnery, where she could not conspire against the Tudors or support the imposter. Many Yorkists fled to exile to avoid being imprisoned or executed. 
• In 1486, Simnel and his 8000 men army landed in Lancashire and, marched through Cumbria and North Yorkshire, the following June the army met Henry’s 12,000 army.
• Simnel was captured and placed as a turnspit in the royal kitchens, whilst the Earl of Kildare was killed. 
• During the battle, Lincoln and Fitzgerald were killed, whilst Lovell and Broughton were assumed dead, although their bodies were never found. In November, 28 acts of attainder were passed against those involved, and the only major action against a landowner was Lincoln.

2.3 The Yorkshire Rebellion – 1489

• A rebellion broke out in April 1489 against the taxes needed to defend Brittany. The rebels murdered the Earl of Northumberland, and when an army was sent to hang the leaders, they elected another. Sir John Egremont was an illegitimate member of the Percy family and soon fled to Flanders for his life.

2.4 Perkin Warbeck – 1491-1499

• Warbeck began in Cork in 1491, claiming to…