What is now being said about the reign of Henry VII (see chapter 11 of C. Carpenter: The Wars of the Roses (1997). ... divergence from the norms of 15th century monarchy, and a dangerous narrowing of political power = 'new monarchy'/new administrative monarchy, i.e. Crown managerialism in place of noble consensus. read more
Henry VII completely changed England's fortunes and set the stage for it to become a great power. For the roughly 130 years before Henry VII, England had constantly been at war. One of those was the Hundred Years War (which actually lasted 115 years) where the kings of England and France fought over control of the French throne (to be fair, both had a claim). read more
Bacon’s History of Henry VII is intended to instruct the reader in statecraft through the study of a great practitioner of political cunning, cf. Machiavelli’s The Prince, or Justus Lipsius’s Six Books of Politics (1589). It is not a valid history of the reign of Henry VII. 2. read more
Henry VII Facts & Information Biography If Henry VII’s reign was to usher in ‘smooth-faced peace, with smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days’, few could have predicted it in 1485. The Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485 was the last armed confrontation between Lancastrians and Yorkists, those two factions that had fought for decades in The Wars of the Roses. read more