Upon becoming king, Henry had inherited a…
1396 CE to 1539 CE
The treasury was empty, having been drained by Edward IV's Woodville in-laws after his death.
Through a tight fiscal policy and sometimes ruthless tax collection and confiscations, Henry managed to refill the treasury by the time of his death.
He has also effectively rebuilt the machinery of government.
In 1501, the king's son Arthur, having married Catherine of Aragon, dies of an illness at the age of fifteen, leaving his younger son Henry, Duke of York, as his heir.
When the king himself dies in 1509, the position of the Tudors is secure at last, and his son succeeds him unopposed.
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