King and Queen Mix Trivia

1. Which unforgettable king was responsible for separating the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church?

From Quiz The King is Gone But Not Forgot

Answer: Henry VIII

Henry VIII, the second Tudor king, reigned as King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death in 1547. His six marriages have been emblazoned on the pages of history. His separation from the Roman Catholic Church came about because of his personal disputes with the pope and even though he was excommunicated from the church he still believed the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Henry VIII was responsible for starting the English Reformation.

From Quiz How Well do You Know Your English Monarchy?

Answer: 2

In January 1066, Edward the Confessor (reigning from 1042) died, leaving rather a muddle in his wake. Who was going to be king? He had allegedly appointed two before he died (William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson), and a third, Harald Hardrada, was seeking to also claim the throne. Godwinson was crowned king; he defeated Hardrada (who was never king) at the Battle of Stamford Bridge but he was later killed by William the Conquerer at the Battle of Hastings. Edward the Confessor was the first king of England to die in 1066, Harold Godwinson was the second.

From Quiz People Who Should Have Been King/Queen

Answer: Matilda

Henry's only legitimate son died on The White Ship leaving his only other legitimate child, Matilda, as his heir. He persuaded the barons to accept her but upon his death most of them reneged on their promise. She eventually accepted Stephen as king but on the written guarantee that her son would be the king's heir superseding King Stephen's legitimate children.

From Quiz Where are British Kings and Queens Buried?

Answer: Caen, Normandy

He was buried in the abbey he founded in Caen, the Abbaye aux Hommes. While he was being buried his bloated body exploded causing a huge stench, so they had to hurry the burial along a bit. All that remains of William in his tomb is a solitary thigh bone as the rest of his bones were scattered by Huguenots in the 16th century.

From Quiz Kings and Queens of England 832-1216

Answer: Aethelred

Aethelred was the longest reigning Anglo-Saxon king (978-1013 and again, 1014-1016, a total of about 37 years). The nickname 'Unready' means 'without advice' or 'ill advised' and thus refers to those around him rather than the king himself. However, the first written record of the nickname dates from about 1180, so it may not be very informative.

From Quiz Which King Reigned Then?

Answer: Edward I

Edward I got the nicknames 'Longshanks' and 'Hammer of the Scots' - the first for his unusual height for the time, and the second his defeat of the Scottish bids for freedom from English rule.

From Quiz British Queens Regnant

Answer: Matilda

Matilda put up a good fight for the crown - in 1139 she and her husband landed in the south west of England to try and reclaim her crown. It worked. She was elected Queen at Winchester on 8th April 1139. This success was short lived, though; Stephen and his army soon defeated her and he took the crown.

From Quiz British Monarchs in Years Ending in 50

Answer: Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor reigned from 1042-1066, and his death resulted in the tussle for the throne which resulted in the Battle of Hastings between Harold II and William of Normandy, later William I, after he won. He enlarged and re-endowed Westminster Abbey. The word 'Confessor' in this context refers to his firm religious convictions and NOT to going to confession.

From Quiz British Monarchs in Years Ending in 00

Answer: William II and Henry I

William II reigned 1087-1100 and was shot in the New Forest, and Henry I reigned 1100-1135 and died of eating 'a surfeit of lampreys'! (A lamprey is a kind of eel).

From Quiz Kings and Queens of Britain

Answer: 1066

William ruled from 1066-1087, after which his son, also called William, succeeded him. He invaded and won the famous Battle of Hastings and was crowned at Westminster on Christmas Day, 1066.

From Quiz Jerry Springer: English Royals Edition

Answer: George I

When he came to England to claim the throne, George brought two high-profile mistresses with him. One was apparently extremely fat, and the other very thin. The fat one, Sophia Charlotte von Kilmansegge, was reliably reputed to be the illegitimate child of George's father, Ernest Augustus, by Clara Elizabeth Meisenberg. Under the circumstances, it was perhaps better that the liaison between George and Sophia created no children. The thin mistress was Ermengarde Melusina von Schulenburg, with whom George had two, or possibly even three, daughters. In light of all this, it is somewhat ironic that George had his wife, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Zelle, imprisoned for adultery.

From Quiz The Kings and Queens of England

Answer: Catherine de Valois

Catherine was the daughter of Charles VI of France. Henry married Catherine in order to seal the Treaty of Troyes, a Treaty which made him the heir to the French throne.

From Quiz Kings & Queens

Answer: The Renaissance

The Renaissance is the name given to the revival and spread of learning that took place from the 1400s. Henry VII invited Italian scholars to the country, and the Renaissance's greatest expression in England was in the field of Literature.

From Quiz Kings and Queens III

Answer: he died of a lung disease

Young Edward died of a lung disease, tuberculosis. He didn't get along very well with his Catholic sister Mary and did not want her to ascend the English throne. Unfortunately for him, he died suddenly and so his sister went on to become queen... Mary I.

From Quiz Kings and Queens II

Answer: Philippa

Actually, Edward III had quite a few problems concerning his wife's behaviour. Philippa once borrowed money from Germany and promised the crown jewels as a guarantee. Poor Edward had to pay 30000 packs of wool to get them back!

From Quiz British Kings and Queens and Everything in Between

Answer: Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou was a formidable woman and ambitious queen who after seeing her husband Henry VI of England deposed as King, imprisoned and then clandestinely murdered on orders from Edward IV, would ride with the Lancastrian army plotting to win the crown back for her son Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales until he too was murdered.

From Quiz Nicknames of English Monarchs

Answer: Alfred

Some sources say Alfred is the only one to carry this title, while others call Canute "the Great" also. Either way, Alfred, who ruled from 871 to 900 AD, was assuredly the first. Alfred became known as the "Father of the English Navy" as a result of the fleet of ships he constructed to help in defending England from invasion.

From Quiz British Kings and Queens

Answer: King Charles l

Henrietta Maria went to Holland to pawn the Crown Jewels to finance the Royalist side in the English civil war.

From Quiz Kings and Queens of England from 1066

Answer: Elizabeth II

If you picked Mary, Queen of Scots or Bonnie Prince Charlie, you'd better stop taking this quiz, because neither of them were rulers of England. Queen Elizabeth crossed underneath the Channel in the Chunnel (all right, Channel Tunnel) in 1994.

From Quiz Who was Monarch when?

Answer: William II and Henry I

William II was accidentally killed while hunting in a royal forest. His younger brother Henry then acted quickly to gain control of the treasury and the crown of England.

From Quiz English Monarchs

Answer: Edward I

Edward I reigned from 1272 - 1307. In 1284 he was in Wales after he had successfully conquered it. While in Wales his wife Eleanor gave birth to a son, also named Edward. Edward held up his baby and said 'here is your new Prince of Wales.'

From Quiz Second Millenium British Monarchs

Answer: William I, The Conqueror

William, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy, spent his first six years with his mother in Falaise. He received the Duchy of Normandy upon his father's death in 1035.

From Quiz English Monarchs

Answer: Henry VIII & Henry the Eighth & King Henry VIII

They were Catherine of Aragon (divorced), Anne Boleyn (executed), Jane Seymour (died in childbirth), Anne of Cleves (divorced), Katherine Howard (executed) and Katherine Parr (who managed to outlive Henry).

From Quiz The King is Gone But Not Forgot

Answer: William the Bastard

William I was the first Norman king of England. He was only referred to as William the Bastard by sources that were not pro-Norman. He served as Duke of Normandy before he became king. His ancestors were the Viking raiders. William's reign was quite stormy. He was an illegitimate child and this caused problems for him after the death of his father. Nevertheless he was able to establish his authority. It is sometimes said that by establishing a strong centralized government for England William laid the framework for the country's future greatness, although not all sources agree with this viewpoint.

From Quiz How Well do You Know Your English Monarchy?

Answer: Smallpox

Elizabeth I suffered from smallpox aged 29 and, afterwards, covered her face up with lead-based make-up to hide the scars. She was lucky: most people didn't survive from smallpox during Tudor times.

From Quiz People Who Should Have Been King/Queen

Answer: John Dudley Duke of Northumberland

Henry VIII has revised the succession as follows: 1st The Prince of Wales, 2nd Lady Mary, 3rd Lady Elizabeth, 4th Descendants of Princess Mary Duchess of Suffolk succeeding those of his eldest sister Princess Margaret Queen of Scotland. In an attempt to prevent the Lady Mary from inheriting the throne and reviving Roman Catholicism in England John Dudley Duke of Northumberland and Lord Protector had the king alter the succession. As the king was not of age and deathly ill this device to alter the succession could be termed "coerced". Northumberland married his son Guilford Dudley to Lady Jane Grey granddaughter to Mary Duchess of Suffolk. When Edward VI died Queen Jane and reigned for all of nine days. Soon people rallied to Queen Mary I's banner thus ending this brief reign.

From Quiz Where are British Kings and Queens Buried?

Answer: Winchester Cathedral

William II's exact burial spot is unknown. For a while he was mistaken for Henry, Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to 1171. Now they think his bones are mixed with various Saxon kings and queens in some mortuary chests around the cathedral quire, the tombs and chests having been vandalised by Parliamentarian soldiers in the 17th century.

From Quiz Kings and Queens of England 832-1216

Answer: Alfred the Great

Alfred was Egbert's grandson and was one of England's best kings.

From Quiz Which King Reigned Then?

Answer: Richard III

Richard has for many years been portrayed as a evil man who killed his nephews in order to get the throne of England. He was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry Tudor in 1485.

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