The Pretenders and Opposition to Henry VII
After his victory at Bosworth Field Henry VII immediately began to consolidate his position during a period of serious unrest. He was crowned on 30 October 1485 and on 7 November he opened his first parliament. On 18 January 1486 he finally made good his vow to marry Edward IV’s daughter, Elizabeth, thus uniting the two houses of York and Lancaster. Rumours, however, began that his wife’s young brothers, the Princes in the Tower, were still alive and that her cousin, Edward, Earl of Warwick, held in the Tower by Henry, was an impostor. The rumours culminated in two serious threats to Henry’s rule, the Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck conspiracies. Two young men who claimed to be respectively Edward, Earl of Warwick, and Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes, both posed enormous threats to the first Tudor king.
Later sections look at the careers of these two young men and their significance in early Tudor history.
|
4
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
4
|
|