Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did The
Duke of York
return from
Ireland in 1450?
- Take the throne
- Some people saw the Duke
of York as a replacement for
the king
- The Cade rebels wanted
the King to take advise
from him
Anmerkungen:
- The King at the time was Henry VI
- They didn't want York to be the king
- Clear his name
- Cade used the name "Mortimer"
- This was Yorks'
mother's maiden
name
- Some people thought
that York was part of
this.
- Local rumours
- Others thought
that York wanted to
overthrow the KIng
Anmerkungen:
- Wanted his lrepayment
- The King owned him money
- Due to the king bankcurrtping the country,
the King sold the crown jewels and
borrowed money from Richard
- The goverment didn't repay him for the
money which he lent to Henry VI
- Owned £26,000 (About over £10 million today)
- Protect his position
- Thought that he should be chief adviser
- He was furious since Somerset became chief adviser
- Feared that he might be charged with treason
- Feared that Somerset
would be reconised as
the heir to the throne
- Fear of being attainted
- Remove Somerset
- York blamed Somerset for
the lost of land in France
- Somerset replaced York in France and York was sent to Ireland
- Thought that he should be the chief adviser
- He thought that Somerset was to blame
- Bring justice and end corruptions
- Took himself as the mantel of Champion of justice
- Anti-corruption
- York claim to be attacking so called "Evil Men"
- At the end of September 1450, York stated to call all tratiors to be brought to justice