Problems Edwards faced, government and succession, faction

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Significant problems Edwards faced
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Why could he nit rule in his own right?
He was Only 9
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Why were court factions a problems a problem ?
Challenging each other for the reins of government
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What was at court and nationwide?
Religious differences
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How much debt did his father leave him in ?
£600,000
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Name 3 economic problems
coinage was debases, inflation rising, incomes falling
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Thus, What was there an increased risk of ?
Rebellions
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What source of income was lost?
Selling monastic land (henry sold most of it 2/3)
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Whats a 'mid Tudor Crisis' ?
Edward and Marys reign because of economic pressure, weak rulers, government in immediate danger and a series of rebellions and religious upheavals
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When did Edward contract measles and smallpox?
1552
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What did Edward die of ?
Tuberculosis/ a chronic chest infection
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Name 3 chacteristics of Edward?
Clever, series, wasn't sickly
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Government and succession
Problems with faction rivalry
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Whats the conservative factions main aim?
no further religious reforms/the return to traditional catholic worship
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Name 5 people within the Conservative faction?
Duke of Norfolk, Stephan Gardiner (Bishop of Winchester), Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Surrey (son of the duke of Norfolk) Mary Tudor
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What were the associated with passing in 1539?
The Act of 6 articles
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Who's fall were they associated with 1540?
Cromwell's
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Who's marriage were they involved in?
Catherine Howards 1540
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Who did they plot against 1543?
Thomas Cramner
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When did they plot against Catherine Parr?
1546
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What was the reforms faction main aim ?
Support further and more radical reforms to the church
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name 4 people in the reform faction ?
Edward Seymour (Earl of Hertford/Duke of Somerset), Archbishop Cramner, Antony Denny, Catherine Parr
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What foreign policy success success were the reform faction involved in?
Scotland 1542
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Whose fall were they involved in 1542?
Catherine Howard
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Whose marriage were they involved in ?
Marriage to Catherine Parr
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when did they plot against Gardiner?
1544
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Whose arrest were they involved in?
Norfolk 1546
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What was Catherine Howard beheaded for 1541?
Adultery
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What did this mean for the reform faction?
There influence was very much reduced
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When did Sir Anthony Denny become Cheif Gentleman of the Privy Chamber?
Oct 1546
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What could he thus decide?
Who visited the King
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Who was Denny's close ally?
Earl of Hertford, (somerset)
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Denny had control over the dry stamp, what did the dry stamp do?
Authorize Offical documents
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From 1546 onwards what happened to the Dry stamp?
there was increased use of the dry stamp and it allowed Denny to use it without the king's knowledge and approval
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Why did Henry alter his will in mid-December 1546?
To remove any rewards to the disgraced Howard family
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When did Henry amend his will to leave the line of succession as Edward, Mary and Elizabeth?
26th December 1546
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What did Henry plan to rule until Edward was 16?
for a balanced regency council of 16 members
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Why was Henry's death kept a secret for 2 days?
so the plans for regency could be decided
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What did the Dry stamp enable?
to sign a new version of the Kings will to strengthen the power given to Edwards regency council
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How many clauses did they add to the Will ?
2
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What did the first clause give the council?
Full power and authority
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What did the other cause do?
Gave the council the power to award 'gifts' but, had been unable to do so before Henry's death
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What did these changes to the will enable seymour to do ?
name himself lord protector and seize powers
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What title did Earl Hertford (Seymour) give himself?
Duke of Somerset
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Key advisers
1547-1553
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Edward Seymour
Earl of Hertford, Duke of Somerset, Lord protector, Edwards Uncle
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Why did he execute his brother Thoams Seymour?
Was plotting against him
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When did he become the leader of the reform faction?
In the 1540s under Henry VIII reign
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When was Somerset removed from power?
1549
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John Dudley (Duke of Northumberland)
Vicount lisle, Earl of Warwick,
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When Dudley become lord Great Chamberlain?
1547
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When did Northumberland become the president of the Regency Council?
1550
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Who was the son of?
Edmund Dudley ( Council learned in the La =e, executed 1509)
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Who did he serve as 1537-47?
Lord Admiral
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What was he apart of 1544?
The campaigns in Scotland and France
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When did he begin to close to Henry VIII?
At the end of his reign
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What faction was he originally a part of ?
Reformist
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Why and who did he plot with to remove reformers?
With the conservatives including Wriothesley
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Once in control of the regency council who and how did Northumberland betray?
The Conservatives did it by removing them from their positions
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Thomas Cramner
Archibishop of Canterbury 1533-1555
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what plot did he supprot?
The LJG plot
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When was he imprisoned by Mary ?
1555
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When was he executed?
1556
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William Paget
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What was Paget's religious views ?
Reformist
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What could Paget be considered as ?
A 'new man'
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Who did he work closely with despite disagreeing with his policies?
Somerset
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What happened to him after somerset's fall?
Lose government posts
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However, when was he pardoned?
1552
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When was he appointed to Mary's Privy Council?
1553
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Factionalism (a timeline that is on worksheet 5)
Rivery between Somerset and Northumberland
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When did Edward Seymour declare himself as Lord protector?
Jan 1547
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What was Somerset's style of rule ?
He ruled mostly by himself with support of the reform faction
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Who did he control the privy chamber through?
Michael Stanhope
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why did Somerset make many enemies?
His arrogant and dictatorial style of government
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What 2 individuals unsuccessfully plotted against Somerset showing his unpopularity?
Thomas Seymour and Earl of Southampton (Thomas Wriothesely)
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Who one was executed and which one was readmitted to the Privy Council?
Thomas Seymour was executed (March 1549), Wriothesey readmitted
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When was the Fall of Somerset?
Oct 1549
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What seriously weakened Somerset?
The popular rebellions in 1549
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What group plotted against Somerset?
Dudely, Wriothesley and conservative noblemen
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What happened to Somerset after this?
He Fled to London with Edward VI
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Why was Somerset forced to surrender in October 1549?
Edward made it clear he wouldn't support him
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Somerset was arrested, what happened to him after?
He was returned to the Council ( but no longer in charge)
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When was he returned to the Council?
April 1550
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Who was promoted to Lord President feb 1550?
John Dudley (Northumberland)
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Who did Northumberland remove form the council ?
Wriothelesy and other conservatives
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When was John Dudley awarded the title for the Duke of Northumberland?
1551
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Show ways in which Northumberland developed a close relationship with Edward?
Involving him more in government and inviting him to council meetings
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When was Somerset arrested again for accusing to polt to regain power?
October 1551
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When was Somerset executed?
Jan 1552
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Thus, who was firmly in control of governement?
Northumberland
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