Henry VII: Foreign Policy

• 1485: Navigation Act: English Merchants couldn't load goods onto foreign ships unless no English ships available

  English ships must have at least 50% King's subjects in crew
• 1486: French Commerce Treaty - restrictions on Anglo-French trade removed
• 1486: Anglo-Breton Commerce Treaty
• 1487: Treaty with HRE
• 1489: Treaty of Redon: 6,000 troops under Daubeney sent to defend Breton independence.

  1491: Failed, Anne married Charles VIII of France and Brittany annexed
• 1489: Treaty of Dordrecht: 3,000 English troops sent to aid Maximilian of HRE in return for support in Brittany - this never came
• 1489: Medina del Campo:

  Fernando y Isabel recognised Henry, ended trade restrictions and agreed War with France.
• 1489: Commercial alliance with Portugal
• 1490: Treaty with Florence: English wool to be imported to Pisa
• 1492: Treaty of Etaples:

  12,000 English troops led to Brittany, agreed to remove all troops from Brittany in return for pension
• 1493 - Nine year truce between England and Scotland
• 1495 - Holy League set up to deal with France
• 1496 - Intercursus Magnus - Free trade deal with Burgundy except Flanders

  English cloth exports made up over half the total by 1509

  Cloth production rose 60%
• 1497 - Treaty of Ayton - Scotland to stop supporting Warbeck, full peace treaty after his death
• 1502 - Treaty of Perpetual Peace - James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor in 1503
• 1505 - Treaty of Blois - Ferdinand of Aragon married Louis XII of France's niece, Germaine de Foix, after Isabella's death
• 1506 - Intercursus Malus

  Earl of Suffolk returned
• Marriage alliances formed with Austria and Burgundy
• 1508: League of Cambrai - England isolated from European affairs by France and Spain