Tudors!?!?!?

Foreign Policy

Relationships with other countries:

• Friendship with Spain- counterbalance of French power
• owed the Duke of Brittany-sheltered him from yorkists
• France and England traditional rivals
• HRE and Burgundy major trading partners
• Italy divided and competing for power.

Aims:

• Focused on tarde, dynastic expansion and his succession.
• Created truces between potentially dangerous neighbours
• long term alliance with Spain- deepened by Catherine and Arthurs marriage

France:

• Moved to absorb Brittany- weakened Eng millitary…