Historical figures

Question 1

Cassivellaunus

Answer 1

First Breton known by name

Question 2

Boudicca

Answer 2

Queen of the Iceni tribe, led a revolt against Romans in 60-61 AD, destroyed Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium

Question 3

Calgacus

Answer 3

Leader of Caledonians

Question 4

Honorius

Answer 4

Broke connection with Britain in 410 AD

Question 5

At Alban

Answer 5

Proto-martyr (hid a Christian against Roman oppression)
-Verulamium->St. Albans

Question 6

St David

Answer 6

Patron od Wales, established monastic rule in Wales

Question 7

St Patrick

Answer 7

Patron of Ireland, converted Ireland in 432 AD

Question 8

St Mungo

Answer 8

Founder of Glasgow

Question 9

St Brigid

Answer 9

Female patron of Ireland

Question 10

St Augustine

Answer 10

Founded the Archbishopric in Canterbury (601 AD)

Question 11

King Oswiu

Answer 11

Called the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD

Question 12

Venerable Bede

Answer 12

The Church History of The English People (731 AD)

Question 13

Vortigern

Answer 13

Self-declared Overlord of all Britain, invited Judes to help him against the Picts -449 AD

Question 14

Hengest and Horsa

Answer 14

Jutes, helped with Pictish raids, stayed & Beginning of Anglo-Saxons -449 AD

Question 15

Ambriosius Aurelianus

Answer 15

United Western Britons, Battle of Mount Badon (500/515 AD) -stopped Anglo-Saxon invasions for some decades

Question 16

King Egbert of Essex

Answer 16

The last overlord (Bretwalda)

Question 17

Alfred the Great 871-901 AD

Answer 17

King of Wessex, school, monasteries, standing fleet, DANELAW,
Treaty of Wedmore (878 AD)
Anglo Saxon Chronicles (891-1154 AD)

Question 18

Edward the Elder

Answer 18

Invasion of the Danelaw, gradual re-conquest of England

Question 19

Athlestan 924-929 AD

Answer 19

first true king of England, unified
Battle of Brunanburgh -937 AD

Question 20

Ethelred the Unready

Answer 20

Renewed Danish raids (Battle of Maldon -991 AD), Danegeld, masacre of Danes

Question 21

Canute the Great 1016-1035 AD

Answer 21

wise and peaceful, reforms, four Earldoms

Question 22

St. Edward the Confessor

Answer 22

son of Ethelred, castles, Norman influences, only CANONISED king

Question 23

Harold Godwinson

Answer 23

Earl of Wessex, pretender for the throne, killed int he battle of Hastings (1066)

Question 24

Harald Hardrada

Answer 24

King of Norway, pretender for the English throne, lost the battle of Stamford Bridge

Question 25

William the Bastard/Conqueror (1066-1087 AD)

Answer 25

Duke of Normandy, blessed by Pop,e won the battle of Hastings (1066),"Norman Yoke", feudalism, Domesday Book (1086 AD)

Question 26

William II Rufus (1087-1100)

Answer 26

in conflict with church & barons, division of Wales (Marcia Walliae, Wallia Pura)

Question 27

Stephen of Blois

Answer 27

The last Norman ruler

Question 28

Henry II (1154-1189)

Answer 28

First Plantagenet, , father of the common law, Constitutions of Clarendon (11644) -clerks judged by bishops, but punished by the royal court

Question 29

Pope Adrian IV

Answer 29

First and only English pope in history

Question 30

Thomas Becket

Answer 30

archbishop of Canterbury, resists the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), murdered

Question 31

Richard I Lionheart (1189-1199)

Answer 31

took the throne from Henry II, Third Crusade, imprisoned in Austria & ransomed

Question 32

John the Lackland (1199-1216)

Answer 32

taxes, lost Normandy in 1204, conflict with the Pope, Magna Carta (1215), Fist Baron's War (1215-1217)

Question 33

Henry III (1216-1272)

Answer 33

barons grow in significance, textile industry, salt & coal, Second Barons' War (1264-1267)

Question 34

Simon de Montford

Answer 34

Led the Second Barons' War (1264-67), Parliament -1265 AD

Question 35

Edward I (1272-1307)

Answer 35

Greatest Plantegenet, founder of the English parliamentary system, wars agains Wales & Scotland, Stature of Rhuddlan (1284). Model Parliament (1295), Auld Alliance 1294

Question 36

Edward II

Answer 36

First (English) Prince of Wales

Question 37

Sir William Wallace (Braveheart) 1297-1305

Answer 37

Battle of Stirling Bridge, Battle of Falkirk

Question 38

Robert the Bruce

Answer 38

Crowned king of Scotland in 1306, reconquered north of Scotland

Question 39

Edward III (1327-1377)

Answer 39

Age of chivalry, English as an official language, House of Commons & House of Lords, Beginning of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), Black Death (1348)

Question 40

Richard II (1377-1399)

Answer 40

Great Revolt of Peasants in 1318

Question 41

Henry IV (1399-113)

Answer 41

Revolt against Owain Glyndwr (1400-1415)