Assess the view that the most important reason for the downfall of Henry VI in 1461 was his personality. In order to assess this view we need to examine his personality throughout his reign and how it affected his judging and his reign. As the son of such a great king, Henry VI was expected to be as successful as his father however this was not the case. Henry’s failure as a king has a lot to do with the fact that he was overthrown, which was mainly due to his personality. He wasn’t suited to being a king at all mostly because of his primary interest lying within religion.
Although Henry’s wife, Catherine of Aragon did in fact give birth to some children between the years 1509 to 1514 none lived past the age of one. Although Henry did eventually get his Heir to crown it didn’t happen till’ Edward VI in 1537. This means that Henry’s biggest and most important aim was technically a failure during the early years of his reign. Another important goal that Henry VIII wanted to achieve in the early years of his Reign was to bring Honour and Glory to England and for him to be known as a true English warrior to the rest of Europe. Henry did somewhat achieve this goal with his wars with France and Scotland.
King Louis XIV (14) Biography: - reigned 1643-1715, longest ringing monarch in European history - family name: Bouons - born in 1638, considered a miracle because his parents (Louis XIII and Anne of Austria) were childless after a marriage of over twenty years - father Louis XIII dies when Louis is age 5, advisor Cardinal Mazarin and Anne of Austria continue to follow father's system of rule- centralized power for the king - leads to rebellions by nobility, Louis, Anne and Mazarin flee France to Austria leaving no head of state, eventually chaos erupts because all nobles want to be ruler, and Louis XIV is invited back to rule at age 9, has big distrust of nobility since they tried to assassinate him - distrusts nobility due to his
Charlemagne did for the good of Christian Europe, and to do that good, he and his family would have to make personal sacrifices, such as when he put his two youngest sons in separate kingdoms from each other and from the rest of the family. Another example. When the king was planning which one of his older sons would rule his empire after he died he decided it would be his son Carl because he did not want oldest son Pepin to rule because of his hunchback, another example. When Charlemagne went to go find the Saxons that had killed his best knights and when he found them he had to decide whether or not to execution them for their actions, but when he thought about it he decided to execution for their action because that was justice. Catholics who are descended from families of Europe must be grateful to Charlemagne.
Henry was aware that the current French king, Louis XII was dying and wished to avoid war at all costs, as he would not be able to guide his country in his old, weak age, Henry realised that this was the ideal situation in which for him to launch an attack, he also had the support of the nobility, who were raring to have a fight. However, Henry’s early military campaigns achieved very little in terms of land gained, for he only managed to capture two relatively small towns, Tounai and Therouanne. His campaigns also appeared to be more beneficial for his “allies” than himself. We know that his reasoning to campaign in Aquitaine was persuaded by Ferdinand, so that he could go on and recapture Navarre from France. Another example of this is when Ferdinand and Maximilian revealed how seriously they took England when they signed a separate treaty with France (Despite
However, when Peter died, he had no successors who knew how to carry on his policies, so he failed to lay the foundations of a stable state. On the other hand, Louis XIV made efforts to improve classic areas of the state, such as war, peace, religion, and the economy. Also, he got all of France’s nobles on his side. He effectively made France the most powerful superior European nation. He could afford to raise and maintain a powerful army, and could dominate Europe.
To what extent did Edward IV restore royal authority in the years 1471-83? Edward IV defeated Henry VI at the Battle of Tewkesbury making him the new heir to the throne. Henry VI was a particularly under-mighty king and did a poor job throughout his reign. When Edward IV came to the throne (for the second time) he did not have much of an act to follow, however, Henry had left him in a lot of debt and he needed to restore authority to the kingdom. There are many factors showing how Edward did to try and regain control, although it is hard to tell how many of them were effective!
The Lambert Simnel rebellion (1486-7) came about due to Henry VII weak claim to the throne; after all he was only descended from John of Gaunt, one of Edward III’s sons, and even then he was an illegitimate heir due to being descended from the product of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford illicit union. This left him open to dynastical challenges from members of the ousted House of York, such as the Earl of Warwick, who while believed dead, was not confirmed as such, this enabled Lambert Simnel to claim to be him, and allowed Perkin Warbeck to claim to be Richard Duke of York (one of the princes in the tower), with little challenge to their claim. If Henry had a stronger claim to the throne it would have been a lot harder for Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck to have rallied support for the Yorkist cause and attempt to overthrow him. Henrys dynastical weakness also caused him to be diplomatically weak, due to other countries, such as Scotland, France, Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire recognizing Warbeck (Richard Duke of York) as the legitimate King of England, Henry was forced to sign many treaties to expel Warbeck from their countries and eliminate their support for him, for example the Treaty of Ayton, whilst expelling Warbeck, also meant that Henrys daughter had to marry the Scottish king.
Most saw nothing for the Republican Party in Baucus’s proposals making them not want to be apart of this. Emanuel began a campaign to convince the president to change his goals. But, Obama made his own decision and wanted a full bill. During these times, there was a lot of protest from the people. After the lose of Grassely, they also lost Edward Moore Kennedy, who actually died.
Victor’s action to run away caused William’s death and made Justine look like the killer when the evidence was planted from the blood. I see it as Victor was never going to be truly happy because there was so much he really didn’t know and could not handle the whole situation. People during the Enlightenment tried to handle many things on their own but certain things should just not be touched or you will find out the hard way. It was like finding a million dollars in the street and keeping it thinking no one would ever trace back to finding you because it was something that huge. He paid his price and it was a great one, the role of God is not to be played