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Summary Historian Quotes: Henry VII
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List of historian quotes for Henry VII's reign. Excellent for additional marks in essays.
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1Tudor Historian Quotes and Wider Reading
Tom Penn:
• “Hunger for Power”
• “became paranoid”
• “manipulative, magnificent and terrifying”
• “Man who never met a moments peace”
• Henry VII at Milford before Bosworth “Judge me my Lord and favour my cause”
• “He knew what happened to Richard III could happen to him”
• cemented union with Elizabeth of York by putting the Beaufort sign and Tudor
Rose everywhere.
• “Arthur was the Tudor rose incarnate”
• Genealogical scroll of the De La Poles said that Henry was the descendant of
Owen Tudor, a chamber servant and therefore had no claim to the throne.
• “Most dear to his heart-money”
• Gold coin show Henry’s full length on the throne and on the back was the Tudor
rose and English coat of arms- used to convince foreign powers
• “Henry was obsessed with control especially with money”
• At the death of Arthur, the Herald said that Henry “ He had a hard heart but wept
not”
• After the death of Elizabeth of York 11th February 1503 “foundations of reign
were shaken”
• “if subjects did not love him they would be forced to fear him”
• “betraying the king was not only unthinkable but unaffordable”
• Council Learned - “process that struck fear”
• Edmund Dudley (lawyer) inflicted long forgotten laws and stretched it to its limits
to financially cripple people
CN Trueman:
• “The image that Henry being a financial ‘genius’ came from the writings of Francis
Bacon”
M.J.Tucker:
• “dour sombre-hued character”
• “Henry enjoyed the traditional aristocratic recreations”
Polydore Vergil:
• “Not devoid of scholarship”
• “rather feared than loved because of his greed, high taxes and oppressive gov-
ernment”
Giovanni de Bebulcho wrote in 1496:
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