Wyatt's rebellion

As in England, the plans of the English Queen Mary I to marry the Spaniard Philip II of Spain were known in 1554, it came to the so-called Wyatt conspiracy in London. This conspiracy was named after their leader Thomas Wyatt.

Philip II met with the British on large rejection. They feared a strong Spanish influence in England. Thomas Wyatt wanted the former Queen Jane Grey, who was imprisoned in the Tower at this time, reinsert or Henry VIII 's younger daughter Elizabeth with Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon marry in order to collect these in place Mary on the throne. Thomas Wyatt gathered a force of 3,000 men to fight against the Queen. The royal army defeated Wyatt's troops until the outskirts of London, and the rebellion was crushed. Through torture were brought Wyatt to testify against Mary's half-sister Elizabeth. In view of the death sentence against him recanted Thomas Wyatt on the scaffold any involvement in the plot of Elizabeth, and they had to be released from the Tower. Thomas Wyatt was beheaded on April 11, 1554 and expropriated his family.

When Elizabeth I became queen in 1558, she made the decisions of Mary undone, and Wyatt's descendants were given titles and land back.

  • History of England in the early modern period
  • Conspiracy
  • 1554
  • Elizabeth I
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