The Tudor Conquest


I. Medieval Ireland redux

Ireland in 1300

Ireland in 1450

II. Tudor conquest

kingdom or colony?

War of the Roses (1455-1485): Yorkists vs. Lancastrians
    Thomas Fitzgerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (Old English earl of Leinster)

A. the Tudor revolution in government

early modern state formation

uniformity of rule

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B. Tudor policy toward Ireland

House of Kildare

Gerald Fitzgerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1456-1513)   – governor of Ireland but sympathetic to Yorkists

Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487-1534) – imprisoned by Henry VIII; died in the Tower of London

Thomas Fitzgerald (Silken Thomas) – son of 9th Earl; led a rebellion and was executed in Tyburn

Henry VII (r. 1485-1509)

Gerald Fitzgerald, 8th Earl of Kildare

Sir Edward Poynings > Poyning's Law (1495)

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Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)

Ireland's geopolitical significance

House of Kildare

Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

rebellion # 1: Kildare Rebellion of 1534-5

Thomas Fitzgerald, Lord Offaly (aka Silken Thomas)

Sir William Skeffington, Lord Deputy  

 

silken
Silken Thomas attacks Dublin Castle

 

Kingship Act (1541)

surrender and regrant (1540s) -- tenurial imperialism?
            ex. the O'Neill clan: Con Bacach > Earl of Tyrone

 

C. Tudor revolution in religion
           Church of England (1534): established church, Anglican, non-conformist (dissenter)
           Church of Ireland (1537)



D. the New English

service elite

1600s-1630s: 258 new Irish knighthoods