Consolidation of power

• Battle of Bosworth

  21st Aug 1485
• Punished traitors

  1. Through Acts of Attainder (legislation that formally declared someone guilty- the nobility)

  2. Issued 138
• Coronation before his first Parliament

  30th Oct 1485
• First Parliament

  7th Nov 1485
• Power

  Came from monarchy not government
• Imprisoned Yorkist claimants to the throne

  1. Earl of Warwick 1485

  2. Earl of Lincoln is another potential claimant
• Pretenders were acting like Edward V and Richard, duke of York
• Married Elizabeth of York for politics


  Jan 1486
• Marriage between Lancaster and York binds both houses
• Heir born Prince Arthur


  Sept 1486
• Awarded supporters

  Issued 11 public knighthoods to nobility who supported him