Henry VII: Rebellions

• Lovell Rebellion:

  1486 - Viscount Lovell tried to raise an army in North Yorkshire, Thomas and Humphrey Stafford did the same in the Midlands.

  Rules of Sanctuary changed so that they could not reclaim it and was not applicable in cases of treason.

  Staffords executed, Lovell fled to Flanders.
• Lambert Simnel:

  Resembled Earl of Warwick, a Prince in the Tower

  Support from Margaret of Burgundy

  Landed in Ireland in 1487 with 2,000 Swiss/German Mercenaries and Commander Schwarz

  Earl of Kildare crowned Simnel Edward VI in Dublin

  Battle of Stoke: June 1487

  Henry: 12,000 men under Earl of Oxford

  John de la Pole: 8,000, 50% casualties

  JDLP killed, Simnel sent to work in kitchens
• Yorkshire Rebellion

  1489

  £100,000 tax demanded for war with Brittany, only £27,000 received.

  Earl of Northumberland murdered by John Egremont's rebels

  Earl of Surrey put rebellion down

  No more rebellion but tax quota never collected
• Perkin Warbeck

  Impersonated Richard, other Prince in the Tower.

  Welcomed by Charles VIII of France but expelled following Treaty of Etaples in 1492

  Welcomed in Burgundy by Margaret

  1495 - Landed in Kent, never disembarked after 150 killed

  Welcomed by James IV in 1495 - marries King's cousin

  1496 - Small Scottish force crosses border, retreats

  1497 - Treaty of Ayton forces Warbeck out of Scotland

  Lands in Ireland, rejected as Kildare now loyal to Henry

  Lands in Cornwall attempting to exploit rebellion, surrenders in Exeter.

  1499 - Hanged after conspiring to escape with Warwick
• Cornish Rebellion

  1497

  £120,000 voted in taxes for War with James IV and Warbeck

  15,000 men marched to Exeter.

  1,000 killed in battle of Blackheath in September.

  Leaders an Gof and Flamank beheaded
• White Rose

  1499-1513

  1499 - Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, flees to Calais - 51 acts of attainder placed on relations

  1501 - Flees to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian

  1505 - Suffolk handed over in return for £158,000

  1513 - Executed by Henry VIII after imprisonment