Fear of foreign Catholic invasion was therefore clearly strong. Mary was concerned enough to offer to negotiate — if the rebels returned home. Wyatt refused; this turned his rebellion into outright treason in the eyes of government.
London backed Mary. London Bridge was blocked, so Wyatt circled around and approached the capital from the west. With the element of surprise gone, he was intercepted by a larger royal force and surrendered. Wyatt was kept alive for a while in the hope he would indicate how much Elizabeth knew of the plot. When he refused to talk, he was executed along with the Duke of Suffolk. Like Like.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Mary was a fanatical Catholic and was determined to return England to the true Catholic faith. Elizabeth was in mortal danger - she was heir to the throne, a Protestant and her half-sister Queen Mary did not trust her. After attending Court for a short time Elizabeth retreated to Hatfield away from the intrigues of the court.
Elizabeth was the focus of all Protestants and in danger of being implicated in conspiracies to overthrow her Catholic half-sister Mary. It did not take long for a Protestant rebellion to erupt which was sparked by the news that Queen Mary intended to marry the fanatical Catholic King Philip II of Spain. Protestant Englishmen were terrified that the terrible Spanish Inquisition would come to England and that Mary and Philip would produce a Catholic heir to the throne.
John Dudley had been executed on 23 August The Catholics were in power. The news about the intended Catholic marriage between Mary and Philip leaked out in the autumn of Their prime objective was to replace Mary with Elizabeth. But their other objective was to arrange the marriage of Elizabeth to Edward Courtney. Elizabeth was again the centre of a plot by powerful men. The French Ambassador, De Noailles, had promised French support once the support of the people had been establish.
Wyatt was horrified at the prospect of Spanish rule. He was young, 33 years old, reckless and hot-heated. He readily agreed to lead the men of Kent in a country-wide rebellion.
The rising was fixed to start on 18 March But the numbers involved in the conspiracy grew and the 'secret' was out. Sir Thomas Wyatt met close friends at Allington Castle on 22nd January and decided that it would be too dangerous to wait until March. The date for the rebellion was brought forward to Thursday 25th January - coinciding with market day at Maidstone.
He raised men in Maidstone and marched on London. Key Facts And Information. This choice of a foreign marriage was unpopular among the English. When Edward died in , his half-sister, the Catholic Mary Tudor was the rightful heiress. However the former King, wanting to preserve the Protestant religious orientation, designated as his successor Lady Jane Grey.
Elizabeth I was also Protestant. Mary desired to remove her from the throne and establish Catholicism as the new religious orientation. On November 16, , a parliamentary delegation had formally asked the Queen to choose an English husband. Mary was replaced on the throne of England by her half-sister Elizabeth, who would have subsequently married Edward Courtenay.
Other conspirators, besides Courtenay, were involved, including Nicholas Throckmorton and the mathematician Leonard Digges. The French ambassador Antoine de Noailles could only be favourable to the movement knowing that the union of the crowns of Spain and England could not support the French interests.
On January 21, Edward Courtenay was arrested and confessed voluntarily. The next day, James Croft, realising that the circumstances were no longer favourable, abandoned the enterprise.
Henry Grey was more determined but could only reunite rebels. He was not able to take Coventry and spontaneously surrendered. Henry Grey was tried and beheaded, along with his daughter Jane Grey, and his son-in-law Guilford Dudley. Peter Carew tried to raise a rebellion in Exeter in Devon , but Protestant nobles were reluctant to take part, and the population was mostly Catholic.
A force led by the Duke of Norfolk was sent to deal with Wyatt but this collapsed when Wyatt was helped when government troops deserted to his cause.
Norfolk and what was left of his force retreated to London. There can be little doubt that there were those outside of noble circles who were gravely concerned by the thought of Mary marrying Philip and it was these people who joined Wyatt. However, Wyatt delayed his advance on London and gave the city time to organise its defences. His attempts to cross the River Thames near to the Tower were thwarted as the bridges had been deliberately damaged to stop this. Wyatt marched to the southwest of London and crossed the Thames there.
He marched his men to what is now Hyde Park Corner and made for the City. To get into the City, Wyatt had planned to get in via Ludgate. However, the gate was heavily fortified and to get to it, the rebels had to move up narrow streets via the Stand and Fleet Street. By using these narrow streets, Wyatt left his men open to being trapped by armed Londoners loyal to Mary.
This is what happened and he was defeated. Wyatt was sent to the Tower of London, as were the other noblemen who were caught. Their guilt was obvious.
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