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HVIII FINAL YEARS - Coggle Diagram
HVIII FINAL YEARS
FACTIONALISM
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As HVIII grew older, his ministers and courtiers began to gain influence over his court
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FOREIGN RELATIONS
SCOTLAND
Marie de Guise refusal to marry Edward VI and MQOS led HVIII to adopt 'rough wooing' policy of brutally attacking over 800 Scottish villages and various churches
failed to persuade her to marry, led to French enmity
Battle of Solway Moss - 1542 - Scotland defeated, James V died soon after
FRANCE
EVENTS
HVIII campaign in 1544 with CV BUT Francis II makes peace with CV, HVIII abandoned
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RESULTS
Cost 2m, paid for with dissolution money, The Great Debasement (1544-51) and taxes
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CONCLUSION
HVIII's reign ended in a desperate attempt to realise his imperialist dreams, at the expense of the English economy - the divisions and instability provoked by the Dissolution accentuated this strife, leading to a rebellious population that caused many issues in the reign of Edward VI