Position And Governance

Question 1

What confirmed Richard’s Title as king?

Answer 1

Titulis Regius

Question 2

Which Parliament confined the Bastardisation of Edward’s children

Answer 2

January 1484

Question 3

How many people were attainted at the Parliament of 1484

Answer 3

104

Question 4

When did Richard persuade the Woodvilles to leave sanctuary?

Answer 4

March 1484

Question 5

What did Richard establish that kept him informed, used in buckinghams rebellion?

Answer 5

Spy Network

Question 6

When did Richard’s only Legitimate son die?

Answer 6

April 1484

Question 7

When did Queen Anne die?

Answer 7

March 1485

Question 8

By Christmas 1484 who was it rumoured Richard wanted to marry?

Answer 8

Elizabeth of York, Niece

Question 9

What attempt of Richard’s, from 1484 onwards, to install loyal northerners in the south generated resentment?

Answer 9

Northern Platinations

Question 10

Whose famously mocking rhyme about Richard III’s reliance on a small clique circulated in July 1484?

Answer 10

William Collingbourne

Question 11

Which well-rewarded favourite of Richard III served as his chancellor of the exchequer?

Answer 11

William Catsbey

Question 12

Whose marriage to the mother of Henry Tudor meant that his loyalty was always questionable?

Answer 12

Thomas Stanley

Question 13

What did Richard III have to resort in 1485 to even though he had banned very similar benevolences?

Answer 13

Forced Loans

Question 14

Which new king of France from 1483 actively supported Henry Tudor to annoy Richard III?

Answer 14

Charles VIII

Question 15

Which stepson of Edward IV joined Henry Tudor in 1483, almost reconciled with Richard III but did not?

Answer 15

Thomas Grey

Question 16

Renewed war with which country in 1484 was probably an expensive error for Richard III?

Answer 16

Scotland

Question 17

What did Richard III declare illegal in the parliament of 1484?

Answer 17

Benevolences

Question 18

What did Lincoln take over running in April 1484 even though he had no lands or support there?

Answer 18

Council of the North

Question 19

How many of Richard III’s fifty-four councillors had once been in service to Edward IV?

Answer 19

24

Question 20

Whose written financial advice did Richard III seek to follow even though he had died in 1479?

Answer 20

Sir John Fortescue

Question 21

What did forced loans and the pawning of some crown jewels show that Richard III faced by 1485?

Answer 21

Financial difficulties

Question 22

Who was Richard III’s illegitimate son that became Captain of Calais in 1485?

Answer 22

John of Gloucester

Question 23

Which prominent northern and servant of Richard III was granted southern lands to the value of £650 per annum?

Answer 23

Richard Ratcliffe

Question 24

How much were the southern lands granted to Richard Ratcliffe worth per annum?

Answer 24

£650

Question 25

In which year did Henry Tudor learn of a deal between Brittany and Richard III and flee to France?

Answer 25

1484

Question 26

When was William Collingbourne arrested for his rhyme and conspiracy

Answer 26

July and October 1484

Question 27

Wo did Henry Tudor sweat an oath to marry?

Answer 27

Elizabeth of York

Question 28

Where did Henry Tudor swear an oath to marry Elizabeth of York Christmas Day 1483?

Answer 28

Rennes Cathederal

Question 29

What 3 people joined Henry Tudor in exile?

Answer 29

Oxford Thomas Grey John Morton

Question 30

What was William Collingbourne’s famous rhyme?

Answer 30

The Rat, the Rat and lovel out dog, rule all England under the Hog

Question 31

How much was the Archbishop of York forced to lend to Richard?

Answer 31

£200

Question 32

How much did the Abbot of Cirencester pay to Richard?

Answer 32

£1000

Question 33

What substantially weakened Richard’s financial position?

Answer 33

War with Scotland, 1484

Question 34

When did Richard III put John Fitzalan at sea to police the English Channel?

Answer 34

March 1484

Question 35

Where in October 1484 did an armed rising occur leading the rebels to flee to Henry Tudor?

Answer 35

Essex

Question 36

Who defected to Henry Tudor in November 1484, freeing John de Vere from Hammes?

Answer 36

James Blount

Question 37

Who was pardoned for Buckingham’s rebellion in March 1484 but defected to Tudor in October 1484?

Answer 37

William Brandon

Question 38

Which favourite of Richard III was given extensive lands in Oxfordshire and Berkshire?

Answer 38

Lord Lovell

Question 39

In which region were the northerners Lord Scrope of Bolton and Richard Ratcliffe heavily rewarded?

Answer 39

South west England

Question 40

Where did the Stanleys extend their influence after the fall of Buckingham?

Answer 40

North wales

Question 41

When did ‘Lady Elizabeth Grey’ and her daughters leave the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey?

Answer 41

1 March 1484

Question 42

What are the 4 main problems faced by Richard by 1485?

Answer 42

External Internal Financial Dynastic