aims forgein policy

• Aims


  • Trade
  • Marriage alliance
  • National security
  • Securing succession/dynasty
• National security

  • gaining allies and avoiding war
  • England wasn't a major power in 1485 as he didn't have a standing army and lost the hundred years war with France
  • Needed to avoid war due to lack of money and him being a usurper
• Securing dynasty with marriage alliances

  • usurper with weak claim-needed recognition
  • wanted to marry his children to key families
  • organised marriages of Arthur to Catherine and Margaret to James VI
• Trade


  Treasury was empty and strong finances were important to look like a powerful monarch

  Most treaties had an element of trade