Foreign powers

• Henry VII's foreign policy aims

  Securing relations with Scotland
• Reasons why relations with Scotland were important


  • Scotland was the most vulnerable border as the closest land border to England
  • Scotland had an alliance with France, which could coordinate an attack with England in the middle
• King of Scotland (James IV) offered support to Perkin Warbeck


  This made the prospect of war with Scotland more imminent
• Henry VII did very little to negotiate with Scotland, and was lucky that James IV lost faith in Perkin Warbeck by 1497
• James IV of Scotland decided to create a peace treaty with Henry VII


  1497
• The full Treaty of Ayton was signed and agreed between Henry VII and James IV


  1502
• In 1503


  Henry VII negotiated for his daughter Princess Margaret to marry James IV of Scotland, strengthening Anglo-Scottish relations
• This marriage between the royal families became very important after the death of Elizabeth I, when the Scottish monarchy combined the two dynasties