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Society and rebellion under Henry VIII - Coggle Diagram
Society and rebellion under Henry VIII
Piligrimage of Grace 1536-37
began in north led by Robert aske
around 40k participants at height
including nobles gentry clergy ordinary people
largest and most socially diverse rebellion of reign
Causes
religious
dissolution of monasteries, atachment to catholcism and fear of further religious change
economic
enclosure poor harvest taxation, resentment of statute of uses
political
cromwell resented low birth
Pontrefract articles
restoration of monasteries, return to papal obedience dismal of cromwell
coherent not just outbreak of disorder
Response
duke of norfolk sent to negotiate with rebeks
offered general pardon and free parliament at york
after renwewed rebellion hernry withdre around 200 executed incuding aske in 1537
Importance
LIMITS OF ROYAL AUTHORITY IUN NORTH HENRY USED DECEPTION NOT NEGOTIATION