Cornish Rising

1497

Cornish tax protesters marched on London to protest Henry VII's wartime levies. They were defeated at Blackheath, their leaders hanged. The rising exposed the Tudor monarchy's fragile base among non-southern English populations and the persistence of regional grievance beneath dynastic stability. The rebels marched over three hundred miles to Blackheath, demonstrating provincial resentment and the difficulty of sustaining a peasant army far from home.