Nobility

What did the trad nobles or greater gentry represent?

A social elite which wielded considerable political and economic influence

What increased during H8 reign?

Size of peerage

How many more peers were they at the end of reign over beginning?

9

How had the creation of new peers been balanced?

Natural wastage and number of attainders

What’s natural wastage?

Nobles dying without heirs or titles becoming extinct naturally

How had most of the new peers achieved their ranks?

Successful royal service as courtiers or soldiers

Example of new peers been chosen bc of close family relation

The kings brother-in-law Edward Seymour was elevated to earldom of Hertford

Who was the only Duke when H8 came to the throne?

Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham

How many non-royal ducal title did he promote and who to?

Two- Norfolk and Suffolk

What’s the difference between the two promotions? (Suffolk and Norfolk)

Norfolk had been restored to the title his father had

Suffolk was promoted on account on closeness of personal relation with the king W

Why did H8 sometimes bestow property on nobles?

Enable them to exert royal authority in particular areas

Why was Suffolk endowed with property in 1536?

Got property in Lincolnshire after the rebellion in 1536

Why was Baron Russel raised to peerage and endowed with land in Devon?

To bolster royal authority in the South following the execution of the Marquess of Exeter

What were nobles expected to do and have?

Have great households and offer hospitality to their affinity and neighbours

What could make a noble an object of suspect?

Offering hospitality to openly

What did noble households remain critical to?

Maintenance of local influence and the recruitment of royal armies

How many men did the Earl of Shrewsbury raise for invasion of France in 1513?

Over 4000

Had bastard feudalism died out?

Not completely

What were the nobility gradually being brought under the control of?

Monarch

What happened to Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre of the South?

1541- tried for murder of neighbour’s servant and was convicted and hanged like a common criminal

Which nobles fell victim to H8?

Duke of Buckingham- executed for treason on vaguest charges 1521

Henry Pole Baron Montague and Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter- accused of treasonable conspiracy and executed in 1538

Montagues mother- Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury- attained of treason, held in tower by 2 years before eventually executed

Lord Darcey and Hussey- executed for roles in rebellion of 1536