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 House of Tudor
| Wife Number Five was cousin to another of Henry's wives. Which wife was #5's cousin? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Anne Boleyn . They were both beheaded. So were various of their other relatives. There was just something about that Boleyn and Howard clan . . .
| Who was the last king in the House of York? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Richard III. Richard III, Head of the House of York, was killed in battle at Bosworth Field thus making Henry Tudor the King Henry VII. Richard I died in France. Richard II died of stavation.
| Who is the wife of Henry VII? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward IV and sister to Edward V and Richard (The Princes In The Tower). Caroline of Brunswick was the estranged wife of George IV which resulted in one child Charlotte who died in childbirth. Mary Queen of Scots married first Francis Dauphin of France, Henry Lord Darnley and James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell. Victoria of Kent-Hanover is known in history as Queen Victoria wife of Prince Albert.
| Who is the wife of Arthur Prince of Wales? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
Catherine of Aragon. Lady Jane Grey was married to Guilford Dudley who were both executed by Mary I. Lady Mary Tudor became Queen Mary I (a.k.a. "Bloody Mary"). Elizabeth Howard married Thomas Boylen mother to Anne Boylen grandmother to Queen Elizabeth I.
| Who is the husband of Lady Jane Grey? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
Guilford Dudley. Robert Dudley was her brother-in-law and great love of Queen Elizabeth I. Edward VI almost married Jane Grey had not Thomas Seymour not been caught in the act of sneaking into the King's Bedchamber (by a barking dog). Charles Brandon is her grandfather.
| Who is the first husband of Mary Tudor (Henry VIII's sister)? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
King Louis XII of France. Charles Brandon was her second husband. Mary's granddaughter Jane Grey was daughter-in-law to John Dudley. Philip II was Queen Mary I's husband.
| Who helped to bring down Queen Anne Boleyn and later urged Henry to marry Queen Anne of Cleves? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell was one of the men who brought down Anne Boleyn by accusing her of adultery and incest. He of course helped to choose Anne of Cleves.
| Which uncle did Edward VI have executed in 1549? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Thomas Seymour. His uncle (Henry VIII's brother) Arthur died in 1502, 35 years before Edward was even thought of. Thomas Seymour was charged with trying to abduct Edward and marry him off to Lady Jane Grey. It was also alleged that he himself planned to marry Elizabeth (Edward's sister).
| Which of Henry VIII's children was imprisoned in The Tower of London? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
Elizabeth. Mary imprisoned Elizabeth for allegedly plotting with Sir Thomas Wyatt. Edward probably had Elizabeth as his favorite sister. Henry Fitzroy died shortly after Anne Boylen's execution leaving a widow Katherine who married the widower Charles of Suffolk.
| Which of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York's children married James IV of Scotland? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
Margaret. James was the first of three husbands for Margaret. Mary married twice (Louis XII of France & Charles of Suffolk). Henrietta was the daughter of Charles I.
| Which cousin of Elizabeth I did Robert Dudley marry? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Lettice Knollys. Catherine died when Elizabeth was eight. Mary married three times (none to Dudley). Lady Jane Grey was executed with Guilford Dudley, Robert's brother.
| When she died childless in 1603, Elizabeth I left her throne to James of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots. Thus, the crown of England passed from the Tudor dynasty to what other dynasty? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Stuart. The Bourbons ruled France. The Hanovers ruled England in the 18th century, and the Windsors (formerly Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) rule England now.
| When Mary died, she was succeeded by her sister Elizabeth I, otherwise known as Good Queen Bess and other titles inappropriate for this family website. What Crown colony, now a U.S. state, was named for her -- or, more accurately, for an aspect of her character? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Virginia. She was the Virgin Queen - hence, Virginia.
| When Henry's son died, there was a brief plot by Lord Northumberland to lock both of Henry's daughters out of the succession by placing a cousin on the throne. What was the name of this girl, who reigned for nine days and was then imprisoned and beheaded by Mary? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Lady Jane Grey. Northumberland was executed too.
| What year did the Spanish Armada set sail against England? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
1588. Elizabeth I began her reign in 1558. In 1570 Pope Pius V issued a bull declaring Elizabeth deposed! In 1600 she issued a charter to the East India Company [of London].
| What year did Elizabeth I die? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
1603. Elizabeth was born in 1533 and died in 1603, just shy of her 70th birthday. However, no previous English sovereign had reached this age.
| What relation is Lady Jane Grey to Henry VII? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
great-grand daughter. Jane's mother is Frances Grey. Frances' mother is Mary Duchess of Suffolk. Mary is the daughter of Henry VII.
| Under which sovereign was Elizabeth (as Princess) sent to the Tower of London? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Mary I. Edward loved Elizabeth too much to imprison her. Henry VII died in 1509, some twenty-four years before Elizabeth was born. Henry VIII claimed to love his daughters and did not imprison them.
| Think back to the old rhyme, still used by schoolchildren to remember Henry VIII's wives: 'Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.' Who was his fifth wife, the second to be beheaded? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Katherine Howard. She had apparently neglected to inform her husband the King that she was actually also the common-law wife of one of his courtiers. A slight matter of adultery, that she was probably actually guilty of -- unlike another of Henry's wives.
| The closest Elizabeth I ever got to marriage was with a French duke, brother of the King and son of Catherine de'Medici, with whom she actually contracted a marriage before things fell apart. What was he duke of? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Anjou and Alencon. His name was Francois, and he died about a year after the marriage fell through. Otherwise he would have succeeded to the throne of France.
| One of the very few lasting achievements of Henry's son's reign was a prayerbook for the Anglican Church. What was the name of this prayerbook? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Book of Common Prayer. The Psalter was a product of the Plymouth Bay Colony. The Book of Kells was an illuminated Roman Catholic manuscript, hidden for centuries in people's attics from royal soldiers who would have burned it. (Aren't religious wars a wonderful thing?) Another achievement of Edward's reign was the establishment of a number of grammar schools throughout England.
| One of the most terrible failures of Mary's reign was the loss of what French city, the last English foothold in France? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Calais. Mary mourned for Calais the rest of her life.
| Of Henry VIII's wives who was NOT a lady-in-waiting to a previous wife? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
Anne of Cleves. Anne Boylen was a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon. Jane Seymour was a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boylen. Catherine Howard was a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves.
| Mary I caused quite a stir not only because she was Catholic, but also because she married a man who would in a few months' time become Philip II of what nation, the on-again, off-again enemy of England? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Spain . This is the same Philip II who later sent the Great Armada against Mary's sister Elizabeth. At the time of his marriage to Mary (in 1555), he was king of Naples and of Sicily; he became king of Spain in January 1556 when his father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, abdicated. Many thanks to deanovc, who kindly pointed out that Philip was not yet king of Spain at the time of his marriage to Mary.
| In what year did Henry VII die? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
1509. Henry VIII died in 1547. Elizabeth I died in 1603. Mary I died in 1558.
| In a stirring speech to her soldiers before the Spanish Armada was to land - and before the English had word the Armada had been defeated at sea -, Elizabeth I urged them to fight for their country to the last man. Said she, 'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a _______________'? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
king. This was before the age of female empowerment, but she did a good enough job, don't you think?
| How many of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York's six children got married? | House of Tudor : 1 (valjoedg) |
4. Arthur married once but died soon after. Margaret married three times once to the King of Scotland. Henry VIII married 6 times. Mary married twice once to the King of France. Two children died young.
| How many grandchildren did Henry VIII have? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
None. Out of his three legitimate children and one illegitimate child only two married. Mary I and Henry Fitzroy. Mary I had a phantom pregnancy on two different occassions.
| How many children did Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I have combined? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
None. Mary and Philip II of Spain were husband and wife but never had children. Mary did have what could be described as "phantom pregnancies". Elizabeth never married nor had a child.
| How many children did Lady Jane Grey have? | House of Tudor : 2 (valjoedg) |
None. Jane and her husband did not like each other and only consumated their marriage once. To put it bluntly they hated each other.
| Henry VIII's final wife (Number Six) survived him, despite frequent arguments on religion. After Henry's death she married a courtier, Thomas Seymour (later beheaded for conspiring against King Edward VI) and died giving birth to his daughter. Who was this Dowager Queen? | The Tudors of England (CellarDoor) |
Katherine Parr. There's a story that at one point Henry actually made out a death warrant for Katherine Parr, but that a sympathetic Palace guard informed her of the plan and she was able to talk her way out of it. The daughter she bore Thomas Seymour -- first child for both of them -- survived the birth, but is lost to history.
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