Rebellion of Lambert Simnel

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Who was Lambert Simnel?
10 year old the son of an organ maker
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Who was Richard Symonds?
a 28 year old priest from Oxford (Yorkist stronghold) and teacher of Lambert Simnel
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What was the original plan? What did it change to?
Symonds decided to pass Simnel off as the younger boy, Richard of York. However, in the light of fresh rumours about the Earl of Warwick, he seems to have changed his mind and to have decided that Simnel would now impersonate Warwick.
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When did the rebellion begin?
Winter of 1486
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Where did they travel to and why?
Symonds took his protégé to Ireland, a centre of Yorkist support ever since Richard, Duke of York had been Lord Lieutenant there in the 1450s. Henry was also unpopular there given his failure to confirm the Earl of Kildare as Lord Deputy of Ireland
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Who else gave Simnel support?
Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy; she sent a force of 2,000 German soldiers to Ireland
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Who headed the mercenaries?
Martin Schwarz
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When and where was Simnel crowned? What was his 'title'?
King Edward VI in Dublin in May 1487
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When did Henry hear about the rebellion?
New Year 1487
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How did he initially react?
February 1487 a few lesser nobles were declared traitors and Edward IV’s queen, Elizabeth Woodville the Marquess of Dorset, were put under house arrest and deprived of their lands. The real Earl of Warwick was paraded through London.
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What made the rebellion more serious?
The sudden flight of the John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln to join the elusive Lord Lovell in Flanders at the court of his aunt, Margaret of Burgundy
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How did Henry then react?
Henry showed his concern by offering a pardon to such long-standing rebels as Thomas Broughton
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When and where did Simnel and Lincoln land in England?
4th June 1487 at Furness in Lancashire
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Why did they fail to gather much support?
Because the English people distrusted the Irish soldiers and were tired of civil war
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Where and when did Lincoln and the royal forces meet?
Newark at East Stoke on 16th June 1487
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How many forces did each side have?
Lincoln’s forces numbered about 8,000 and Henry’s possibly totalled 12,000 but many held back even on the battlefield itself
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Who died in the battle?
Lincoln, Schwarz, Broughton and Thomas Geraldine, the Irish leader, all perished, along with nearly half their army. Lovell either disappeared or was killed
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What happened to Lambert Simnel and Richard Symonds?
were both captured. Symonds was sentenced to life imprisonment in a bishops prison. Simnel was made him a turnspit in the royal kitchen and later promoted to be the king's falconer
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When did Parliament meet and how many were attained?
November to December 1487 with 28 attained
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What was Henry's final response?
25th November 1487 he made his wife, Elizabeth of York, queen.
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