Ireland

How did H7 respond to the Kildare Rebellion 1534-39?

H7 sought direct control instead of ran by Irish lords

What was Henry declared 1541?

King of Ireland by the Irish Parliament

What was ending papal feudal authority over Ireland part of?

H8 reformation strategy

What was the policy of ‘surrender and regrant’?

Irish and Anglo-Irish lords invited to surrender their lands to the king and have the lord regranted with English titles under English law 

When was the policy of surrender and regrant?

Early 1540s

What was the goal of H8 in 1540s?

Integrate Irish nobility into English peerage and weaken clan-based Gaelic power

How successful was the policy of surrender and regrant?

Not successful- limited 

How did H8 extend English Reformation into Ireland?

Dissolution of monasteries

Attempt to replace Catholicism with Anglicanism

How was the reformation in Ireland limited?

Limited impact outside of the Pale'

Gaelic Irish and most Anglo-Irish remained Catholic

Protestantism seen as foreign and a political imposition

Short term consequence of foreign policy in Ireland

• Suppressed a major rebellion

• Asserted royal control with a new title'

• Began centralisation of administration and justice

Long term consequences of foreign policy in Ireland

Blueprint for later Tudor intervention

Policies sowed seeds of future resistance and rebellion

Religious changes fail, deepening the Catholic-Protestant divide

Set stage for militarised English involvement in Ireland