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Henry VIII (Religion (Dissolution of the monasteries (causes) (Increase…
Henry VIII
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Government
Parliament
Wolsey used infrequently, only to grant taxation
Cromwell: heavy handed use of parliament to cope w/ BwR, legislative changes etc. acts of supremacy, succession, annates, treason acts
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Privy Chamber: extended, Wolsey couldn't control it
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Privy Council
Cromwell: end of 'personal monarchy' bureaucratic reform so no one man could dominate, reduced in size, still reflected needs of the monarch, separate departments e.g. finance
1540s: factionalism, reform faction dominant in last years so strengthened power of regency council
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Social and Economic
Economy
Depression: bad harvests 1520s; debasement of coinage = long term inflation; price rises 1520s; real wages increased; urban poverty
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Trade: growth in cloth exports; markets for raw wool declined; 1520s FP disrupted trade; improved w/ intercursus magnus
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Society
Elites: nobles benefited from monastic land, economic and political power
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Commoners: gentry class increased, benefited from monastic land
Foreign policy
Ireland
Kildare: Pale, Lord Deputy, dismissed 1534
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Relations w/ France
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First War 1512-14
Battle of Spurs: 1513, England won
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Wolsey's diplomacy
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Treaty of Bruges: 1521, H8 sided w/ France against HRE so was isolated when France and HRE became peaceable again
Treaty of London: 1518, non-aggression pact between England, France, HRE, Spain
Relations with Scotland
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Second War 1540s
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1542 Battle of Solway Moss: James V refused to BwR, scots defeated, MQS as heir