Henry VII Foreign Policy

OCR History A Level The Early Tudors

Henry's 1 year truce with France

1485 - Henry agrees a temporary 1 year truce with France. It is late extended to 1486.

Navigation Acts

1485-6 - These allowed England to trade with Spanish ships and limit the power of the Hanseatic league.

Commercial treaty with Burgundy

1486 - Early in his reign to secure the cloth trade

Three year truce with Scotland

1486 - Keeping the peace with Scotland early in his reign

Agreement with the HRE

1487 - Early in his reign to give him some security.

Treaty of Redon

1489 - Treaty with Brittany, Henry agreed to send 3,000 troops. Paid for by Anne of Brittany.

Treaty of Medina Del Campo

1489 - Between England and Spain
mutual protection
marriage between Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

1491 Brittany

Anne of Brittany accepts defeat and is married to Charles VIII of France. Henry prepares an invasion fleet of 26,000 men

September 1492

Henry launches a French invasion while Charles is busy with Italy.

Treaty of Estaples

1492 - France agreed to give the French pension (50,000 crowns a year). They were to give no aid to English rebels, English soldiers had to leave France.

Trade embargo with Burgundy

1493 - Due to Warbeck gaining support from Margaret of Burgundy

1496

Warbeck arrived in Scotland. He gets a marriage to James' cousin, military support and shelter.

The Holy League

1496 - An anti-French Alliance which included the Pope, Ferdinand, Maximilian, Venice with the aim of driving France out of Italy.

Magnus Intercursus

Major and long-lasting commercial treaty signed in February 1496 by Henry VII of England and Philip IV, Duke of Burgundy.

Treaty of Ayton

1497 - A 7 year truce with Scotland

Warbeck captured

1497

Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon

1501 - Terms of an alliance with Spain and England

Treaty of Perpetual Peace

1502 Treaty between England and Scotland that agreed the marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV of Scotland and extended the Truce of Ayton indefinitely.

Isabella of Castile died

1504 - Ferdinand and Henry then conspired together to enable England to support Aragon in uniting Spain

Hanseatic League

1504 - Henry was forced into this and allowed hem to continue to have their privilege's as they thought they might support De la Pole.

Philip is ship wrecked

1506 - A shipwreck in 1506 left Philip stranded in England en route to claiming the Castilian inheritance of his wife, Joanna. Henry could negotiate the terms of a new agreement over Yorkist support.

Magnus Intercursus

April 1506 - A trade agreement between England and Burgundy that never happened. It helped get Warbeck back.

League of Cambrai

1506 - When Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I, Pope Julius II, and Louis XII formed an alliance that they said was against the Turks but actually attacked Venice. The alliance was unsuccessful.