Foreign Policy 1509-14

• Treaty of Etaples


  Negotiated in 1510 for the continuation of peace
• Henry's actions in 1513

  1. Fled a force to north eastern France

  2. Won the 'Battle of the Spurs'

  3. Captured the towns of Therouanne and Tournai
• The 'Battle of the Spurs' was in reality little more than a skirmish, but was claimed in propaganda to be a stunning victory
• Battle of Flodden

  September 1513
• James IV himself was killed, along with much of the Scottish nobility
• The Battle of Flodden left the throne of Scotland in the hands of the infant
• Henry VIII did little to build on the advantage which Flodden had given him
• Nothing was gained from Henry's military adventures of 1513
• There were rumblings about the taxation in Yorkshire, which only narrowly failed to turn into a full-scale revolt
• The renegotiated French pension was lost with Tournai being eventually sold back to the French for rather less than the English had paid to repair its defences after the siege