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The agreement established a defensive league based upon certain terms. The central tenet was that states with an active foreign policy needed to commit to a stance of non-aggression. As a corollary tenet, signatory states also needed to promise to make war collectively upon any state that broke the terms of the treaty.
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. ... foreign policy and religious changes) ...
A record of the list of participants survives in at least two places: in the Rutland Papers [3] and in the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of King Henry VIII, [14] catalogued as Letters indented specifying, in accordance with the treaty of 12 March 1519, the number and rank of the lords, ladies and gentlemen to attend the King and ...
But now the king had to find a replacement for the FitzGeralds to keep Ireland quiet. What was needed was a cost-effective new policy that protected the Pale and guaranteed the safety of England's vulnerable west flank from foreign invasion. With the assistance of Thomas Cromwell, the King implemented the policy of surrender and regrant.
Henry VIII finally married her to King Louis XII of France as part of a peace treaty in 1514; Louis died after three months and Henry demanded and got most of her dowry back. The other main diplomatic success of Henry VII was an alliance with Spain, sealed by the marriage in 1501 of his heir Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon ...
Centuries of intermittent warfare between England and Scotland had been formally brought to an end by the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which was signed in 1502. [7] However, relations were soon soured by repeated cross-border raids, rivalry at sea leading to the death of the Scottish privateer Andrew Barton and the capture of his ships in 1511, [8] and increasingly bellicose rhetoric by King ...
The reign of Henry VIII: politics, policy, and piety. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-12900-9. Pincombe, Mary; Shrank, Cathy (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-920588-4. Tittler, Robert; Jones, Norman Leslie (2004). A companion to Tudor Britain (Volume 15 of Blackwell companions to British history ...
WHERE by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles, it is manifestly declared and expressed, that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king, having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people, divided in terms, and by names ...