The Tudors made no substantial changes in their foreign policy from either Lancaster or York , whether the alliance was with Aragon or Cleves , the chief foreign enemies continuing as the Auld Alliance , but the Tudors resurrected old ecclesiastic arguments once pursued by Henry II of England and his son John of England . Yorkists were tied so much to the old order that Catholic rebellions ( such as the Pilgrimage of Grace ) and aspirations ( exemplified by William Allen ) were seen as continuing in their reactionary footsteps , when in opposition to the Tudors ' reformation policies , although the Tudors were not uniformly Protestant according to Continental definition — instead were true to their Lancastrian Beaufort allegiance , in the appointment of Reginald Pole
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
House of Tudor