Essay: ‘How serious was the Yorkist threat to Henry VII?’

... 22/09/09 'How serious was the Yorkist threat to Henry VII?' Henry VII was the King of England between 1485 and 1509, and in that time faced many threats to his monarchy. The three main threats came from Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck and the de la Pole family; especially Edmund de la Pole. However, we need to know how serious the threat to Henry kingship was and how close he came to losing the crown. In this essay I will discuss each pretender and rebellion and come to a conclusion on how serious the threat from the Yorkists to Henry VII really was. The first notable threat to Henry was the Lovell conspiracy. Although a complete farce and fiasco, the Lovell conspiracy laid the foundations for future rebellions and pretenders. The conspiracy was planned in 1486 by Francis, Viscount Lovell and two important and powerful landowners in Worcestershire; Thomas and Humphrey Stafford. The motives

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