Henry VII

• When was the Battle of Bosworth

  22 August 1485
• When did Henry VII date his reign

  21 August 1485
• When was Henry VII’s coronation

  30 October 1485
• When was Henry VII’s first parliament

  7 November 1485
• How many knighthoods did Henry VII give out

  11
• When did Henry VII marry

  1486
• Who did Henry VII marry

  Elizabeth of York
• When did Henry VII have an heir

  1489
• When did Perkin Warbeck first land in England

  1495
• When was the Viscount Lovell and the Stafford’s uprising

  1486
• How parliaments did Henry VII call

  7
• Henry VII - What did crown land income start at and end at

  Beginning of the reign - £12,000

  End of the reign - £42,000
• How much money did Henry VII leave for Henry VIII

  £10,000 in cash and £300,000 in plate and jewels
• How much extraordinary revenue did Henry VII collect over his reign

  £400,000
• When was the Treaty of Perpetual Peace - Scotland

  1502
• When was the Treaty of Medina Del Campo - Spain

  1489
• When was the Treaty of Windsor - Spain

  1506
• When was the Yorkshire rebellion

  1489
• When was the Cornish rebellion

  1497
• When was the Intercursus Magnus

  1496
• When was the Intercursus Malus

  1506
• When did Henry VII reign

  1485 to 1509
• What was parliaments functions

  • To grant taxation to the crown
  • to pass laws
• What did Henry’s first parliament do

  • Granted tonnage and poundage (customs revenue)
  • passed numerous acts of attainder
• What did Henry’s other parliaments do

  granted extraordinary revenue to enable the king to go to war

  e.g fifteenth and tenths
• Summarise Henry’s parliament

  • Parliament operated effectively
  • the parliament respected Henry’s decisions and did what he wanted except once in 1504 when they restricted his need for extraordinary revenue
  • little evidence that Henry tried to manage parliament through his ministers
  • there were a number of private acts passed in response to local demands
• Foreign policy aims?

  • national security
  • recognition of the Tudor dynasty
  • defence of English trading interests
• What did the treaty of medina del campo state

  • The two monarchs offered each other mutual protection in case of attack
  • they agreed not to harbour rebels or pretenders
  • Marriage alliance between Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon (1501)
• What were the limitations of the treaty of medina del campo

  • Arrangements for the marriage didn’t go smoothly
  • the monarchs argued over the size of Catherine’s dowry
  • Ferdinand was hesitant as Henry’s dynastic stability was threatened by perkin warbeck
  • the death of Arthur in 1502 brought further complications to the relationship