Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Henry's Foreign Policy A1
- Aims
- create an alliance with Spain
- marriage with Catherine of Aragon
- King Ferdinand of Spain
- Take back France
- Henry V had taken it over but died before he could inherit the throne
- Battle of the Spurs, 1513
- Towns of Therouanne and Tournai were taken over
- Used as Propaganda
- King Louis agreed to marry Henry's sister Mary
- Battle of Flodden, 1513
- Scotland threatened England
- James IV, raised an army of 30,000 men
- Largest army in Scottish history
- Earl of Surrey met them in Northumberland
- James died along with 10,000 men in his army
- Treaty of London, 1518
- Established by Cardinal Wolsey
- pope Leo X called upon the european powers to
unite and join and crusade against the Ottoman
Turks
- Committed powers to live in peace
- Any country that broke the Treaty
could be invaded from the other
signature countries
- Each country
made an
individual Treaty
- Henry was placed
at the center of
European Politics as
the Arbiter of Peace
- The Field of the Cloth of Gold
- Constant conflict between France
and Spain, even after the Treaty of
London
- Wolsey organised a
meeting between Henry and
Francis I at the Field of the
Cloth of Gold
- Done to impress the King of
France/make Henry look good