Assess the Reasons for Edward Iv's Problems with His Nobility

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Assess the reasons for Edward IV’s problems with the nobility to 1470. Throughout his first reign, Edward developed a few problems with his nobility. The reasons for this were actually a chain of events. There were a few different things that eventually led to his problems with his nobility. The main issue was his fall out with one of his nobles, Warwick. This fall out started with the Woodville marriage in 1464, Warwick thought that any strong, respected King should have a wife. This fall out was due to the fact that Warwick was a huge fan of arranged marriages with foreign princess, especially with French princesses because it keeps the peace between England and France. It was important to keep the peace with France because Margaret of Anjou was over there and by keeping peace with France it was likely that the King would support Edward instead of Margaret because Margaret wanted to overthrow Edward. But Edward felt as though he was being dominated by Warwick and he wasn’t happy with this because he hated being dominated by anybody, he felt that to be a strong King he should be independent and make all decisions himself. Warwick went over to France to arrange a marriage for Edward but while he was overseas, Edward was acting promiscuously and the way in which he would get women into his bed was to claim that he would marry them and then when they woke in the morning he would deny saying any such thing. But this backfired on him one day when a woman called Elizabeth Woodville wouldn’t allow him to try and get out of marrying her. So, Edward and Elizabeth had a secret wedding whilst Warwick was away, but Warwick found out. Warwick felt humiliated because not only had Edward gone behind his back but Elizabeth was of low nobility. So he felt as if, now, the French were now laughing at him. Not only was Elizabeth not a noble but she was also a widow of a
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