Henry VIIs Foreign Policy

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Henry VIIs Foreign Policy
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Implores them to get the person who calles
himself the son of Edward (the pretender Perkin
Warbeck) into their power. That is the most
important point that is the whole
thing. Extract from a despatch from Dr De
Puebla, the Spanish ambassador to London to the
King and Queen of Spain, 1496
It was indeed a great ambition of Henrys to be
in friendship and peace with neighbouring
monarchs, and specially with King James so that
his English subjects, knowing there was no refuge
or place of safety for rebels in neighbouring
lands would the more readily be kept in
obedience. Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia,
written before 1513
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Success or Failure?

• What were Henrys successes?
• What were Henrys failures?
• What were his motivations regarding foreign
  policy?
• Did he achieve what he set out to do?

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High and Low Points of Henrys Foreign Policy
1509
1501
1493
1485
success
failure