Was Henry VII of England a good king?
>>18425772Yeah sure. He was responsible for building financial well being of England which helped in long run built it's empire
His mother had him at 13 'cos his father was a pedo. She nearly didn't survive the birth and probably sustained an internal injury of some kind as she didn't have any more children.
>>18425811elaborate
>>18425772Good. He restored the crown’s authority, restored peace for his own interests, and did very well financially. He got more tyrannical and secluded towards the end of his reign. There were a lot of miscarriages of justice towards the end of his reign via his officials. He used the legal system and financial penalties to force people into line and to increase crown revenues. Near the end, it became an extrajudicial system that bullied even the common people to make a few bucks, primarily being run ruthlessly by his closest officials. People were quite upset, but they held off doing anything because Henry VIII seemed very promising and Henry VIII came to power with promises of ending these abuses. But, I think these were necessary measures following a decades-long civil war that could easily flare up again. It just got a little out of hand.
He recognised the importance of marrying a daughter off to the Scots, to sate their rebelliousness by further Anglicising their ruling class.
>>18425772Probably the best monarch England ever had, when you think about it in retrospect.
>>18426517That was Cromwell.
>>18426518I said monarch
>>18426501>What then? Should anything of the kind happen - and God avert the omen - I foresee that our realm would suffer no harm, since England would not be absorbed by Scotland, but rather Scotland by England, being the noblest head of the entire island, since there is always glory and honour in the less being joined to that which is far the greater, just as Normandy once came under the rule and power of our ancestors the English
