Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of Wyatt's rebellion, 1554
- Political
- Opposition to
Mary's marriage to
Philip of Spain
- Wyatt appealed to patriotism and
Spanish xenophobia which was a better
way of gaining support than religion
- Wyatt's rebels couldn't attend
court because they were
Protestant and so had to rebel
- Religious
- All the leaders had
Protestant credentials
- Carew was a devout Protestant
- Wyatt didn't want to use
religion to gain support
- Said it would "withdraw us
form the hearts of many"
- Difficult to distinguish between
religious and political motivations
- Ever since the Reformation, the
religious views of the monarch
influenced court politics
- John Ponet, recently deprived
Bishop of Winchester, was among
Wyatt's advisers during the rebellion