Evil councillors

what are evil councillors?

advisors to the monarch and were labelled as evil for giving bad advise to the monarch yet no evil councillor was ever removed

what rebellions had a cause due to evil councillors?

cornish - 1497

amicable grant - 1525

pilgrimage of grace - 1536-7

wyatt - 1554

northern earls - 1569

essex - 1601

What did all the rebellions that had evil councillors as a cause have in common?

they all had evil councillors as a minor cause

cornish rebellion - Henry VII

reginal broy and john morton were dubbed evil councillors

amicable grant - Henry VIII

complained about cordinal wolsey - who put the tax in place

Pilgrimage of grace - Henry VIII

cromwell, cranmer, audley and rich were targeted in ballads and manifestos (the pontefract articles)

wyatt rebellion - Mary I

‘we seek no harm to the queen but better counsel and councillors’

northern earls - Elizabeth I

they held william cecil responsible for the revolts

Essex rebellion - Elizabeth I

wanted to remove cecil as elizabeths principal adviser