Henry VIII Fact File

Question 1

Dates of Reign

Answer 1

1509-1547

Question 2

Names of Parents

Answer 2

Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Question 3

Names of Children

Answer 3

Mary I, Elizabeth I, Edward VI, and Henry Fitzroy the Bastard

Question 4

Two of Henry VII’s ministers that Henry VIII executed in 1510

Answer 4

Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson

Question 5

Name of Dudley and Empson’s money-making council that Henry VIII dissolved

Answer 5

The Council Learned

Question 6

What style of government marked the beginning of Henry’s reign?

Answer 6

Conciliar - Privy Council (e.g. Fox and William)

Question 7

Henry secured the dynasaty by marrying who in June 1509?

Answer 7

Catherine of Aragon

Question 8

Henry populated the Privy Council with his noblemen known as ‘the….

Answer 8

…minions’ (e.g. Nicholas Carew, Francis Bryan, and Henry Norris)

Question 9

Henry executed which duke for bigging up his own royal blood?

Answer 9

Buckingham - Edward Stafford

Question 10

Henry executed which prisoner before sailing to France in 1513?

Answer 10

Edmund de la Pole - former Earl of Suffolk

Question 11

Before the reformation, Henry VIII summoned Parliament how many times?

Answer 11

Four

Question 12

Who became Lord Chancellor (Chief Minister) in 1515?

Answer 12

Thomas Wolsey

Question 13

What powerful object was Wolsey allowed to possess and use at will?

Answer 13

The Great Seal - the royal rubber stamp

Question 14

Who did Wolsey fail to purge from the Privy Council?

Answer 14

The Minions, (Charles Brandon, William Carey, Arthur Pole).

Question 15

What was Wolsey charged with and found guilty of in 1529?

Answer 15

Praemunire - loyalty to the Pope over the Crown

Question 16

Who was Chief Minister from 1532 - 1540?

Answer 16

Thomas Cromwell

Question 17

What was Cromwell’s solution for the ‘King’s Great Matter’?

Answer 17

Splitting from Rome

Question 18

How did Cromwell go about achieving the split from Rome?

Answer 18

Parliamentary legislation

Question 19

What style of government did Henry conclude his reign with?

Answer 19

Conciliar (Gardiner, Norfolk, Wriothesley, Seymour - Hertford)

Question 20

The ‘reformers’ came out on top after the arrests if which father and son (after the latter adopted royal heraldry)?

Answer 20

Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (the latter was beheaded - the former spared by Edward VI)

Question 21

Where in France did 10K troops land (and fail) in 1512?

Answer 21

Guienne, Quitane (south-west). Duped by Ferdinand.

Question 22

What two northern French towns were seized in 1513?

Answer 22

Therouanne and Tournai

Question 23

What battle repelled the Scottish invasion and killed James IV?

Answer 23

Flodden Field (1513)

Question 24

Who did Henry send to Paris to marry Louis XII?

Answer 24

His sister - Mary

Question 25

Why didn't Mary's marriage to Louis and alliance last over 3 months?

Answer 25

Louis died and Mary secretly married Charles Brandon, the Earl of Sussex

Question 26

What treaty position Henry as Europe's top diplomat in 1518?

Answer 26

Treaty of London

Question 27

The Treaty of London was a non-aggression pact in response to?

Answer 27

The march of the Muslim Ottomans into Christian Europe

Question 28

Peace with France affirmed in 1520 at what event?

Answer 28

The Field of Cloth of Gold

Question 29

Henry didn't have the funds to convince Charles V (Holy Roman Emporor) to unite for a march on where on 1525?

Answer 29

Paris - this was after the defeat and capture of Francis I at the Battle of Pavia

Question 30

What battle crushed the Scots (again) in 1542?

Answer 30

Solway Moss - James V died shortly after this

Question 31

Despite the Treaty of Greenwich, who didn't the Scottish Parliament ratify Prince Edward's betrothal to?

Answer 31

Mary, Queen of Scots (in a minority at the time)

Question 32

Which French town was seized in the 1544 campaign?

Answer 32

Boulogne

Question 33

French retaliation to Henry's 1544 campaign resulted in the sinking of what?

Answer 33

Henry's flagship - the Mary Rose - off the Isle of Wight

Question 34

Who was appointed as archbishop of Canterbury after arguing that Popes had no jurisdiction outside of Rome?

Answer 34

Thomas Cranmer - he claimed that monarchs were Chris's deputies on Earth - not the Pope

Question 35

Which part of the Bible gave Henry an excuse to dismiss his first marriage as illegal and in need of an annulment?

Answer 35

Leviticus - no man should marry the widow of his brother

Question 36

What was hoped the Act in Restraint on Annates would do?

Answer 36

Pressure the Vatican into permitting Henry's divorce

Question 37

What did the Act of Supremacy (1534) make Henry VIII?

Answer 37

The first 'majesty' and the Supreme Head of the Church of England

Question 38

What oath did the Act of Succession enforce on people?

Answer 38

Recognition of Anne Boleyn as Queen and future children as heirs

Question 39

Which prominet pair were beheaded for refusing to swear the oath in the Act of Succession?

Answer 39

Thomas More (Lord High Chancellor and Chief Minister) and John Fisher (the Bishop of Rochester)

Question 40

Which Act made calling Henry a 'heretic' a capital crime?

Answer 40

The Treason Act of 1534

Question 41

What did Henry say about rleics, pilgrimages, and holy days?

Answer 41

Superstitious distractions

Question 42

What did Henry say about transubstatiation?

Answer 42

It was true - Christ was literally present at the Mass (staunch believer)

Question 43

Which publication reduced the sacraments down to 3?

Answer 43

The Ten Articles of 1536

Question 44

Which Act eventually restored the lost sacraments?

Answer 44

The Six Article Act of 1539

Question 45

What was Henry the first ever to permit regarding the bible?

Answer 45

Publication in English (e.g. the Great Bible

Question 46

Which tax triggered a major upriosing in the east, 1525?

Answer 46

The Amicable Grant (to fund the Charles V invasion of Paris)

Question 47

Why did protesters of The Amicable Grant walk away from this uprising?

Answer 47

Wolsey and Henry abadoned the policy in a humiliating defeat

Question 48

Which rebel led to the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536?

Answer 48

Robert Aske

Question 49

What was the key cause of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 49

Dissolution of the monasteries / hatred of Cromwell

Question 50

Why did this uprising come to nothing?

Answer 50

Pardons, promises of talks, then 74 leaders hanged!

Question 51

How did the Laws in Wales Act centralise power?

Answer 51

Wales split into shires and sent MPs to Parliament (1536)

Question 52

Who's autonomy did the Act Resuming Liberties stifle?

Answer 52

The palatines (Lancashire, Chesire, and Durham)

Question 53

Who became wardens of 3 (newly made) Scot marches?

Answer 53

Gentry (e.g. Wharton) not nobles (Percy / Dacre)

Question 54

What council was made into a permanet body in York?

Answer 54

The Council in the North - led by Henry Fitzroy (royal bastard)

Question 55

Who was returned to the succession plan in 1544?

Answer 55

The Succession Act restored Mary and Elizabeth

Question 56

Who did the will will pass the throne to after Edward/Mary/Elizabeth?

Answer 56

Heirs of his sister Mary (if Ed/Mary/Eliz had no offspring)