Rebellion of The Northern Earls

Question 0

What were the two main reasons for the rebellion?

Answer 0

Political and religious

Question 1

What year did the Rebellion of the northern earls take place?

Answer 1

1569

Question 2

When did Mary Queen of Scots arrive in England?

Answer 2

1568

Question 3

What did England’s Catholics see Mary Qos as?

Answer 3

As an alternative to the Protestant Elizabeth

Question 4

What were the names of the factions in court who were in favour of mary marrying thomas howard, duke of norfolk?

Answer 4

Sussex and Leicester factions

Question 5

What were the Sussex and leicester factions in favour of?

Answer 5

Seeing mary marry Thomas howard, Suke of Norfolk

Question 6

Who did people hate?

Answer 6

William Cecil

Question 7

What would the marriage hopefully do to william cecil?

Answer 7

Make him lose his political power

Question 8

Why didn’t people like Cecil?

Answer 8

He meddled in matters traditionally left for the nobility

Question 9

Why did the Northerners feel excluded?

Answer 9

They felt excluded from office and power and were annoyed at the lack of opportunities at court

Question 10

Who were the pro Catholic Earls who were being sidelined from the Elizabethan regime?

Answer 10

Earl of Westmorland and Northumberland

Question 11

What were the Earls of Westmorland and Northumberland sidelined from?

Answer 11

The Elizabethan regime

Question 12

What were the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland being passed over for?

Answer 12

For offices traditionally left for them

Question 13

What religious matters were the north aggravated about?

Answer 13

The treatment of the Catholic faith

Question 14

What didn’t the North want to give up?

Answer 14

Their Catholic practices as the north was still a very catholic region

Question 15

Who arranged most of the rebellion?

Answer 15

Earls Northumberland and Westmorland

Question 16

When did the rebellion start?

Answer 16

November 1569

Question 17

When was the main rebellion over?

Answer 17

Christmas 1569

Question 18

However what happened in January 1570?

Answer 18

Another rebellion began as Lord Dacre raised 3000 men before he was defeated in Naworth battle near Carlisle

Question 19

What happened to Lord Dacre?

Answer 19

He was defeated in the Naworth battle

Question 20

Why wasn’t the battle near Carlisle a threat?

Answer 20

Because it was too far from london

Question 21

What was the rebel’s big failure?

Answer 21

Their inability to gain support from the Catholic gentry in Cheshire and Lancashire

Question 22

How many people died in the Naworth battle?

Answer 22

5

Question 23

How many rebels were executed by elizabeth?

Answer 23

700

Question 24

What did Earl Westmorland succeed in doing?

Answer 24

Escaping

Question 25

When was Earl of Northumberland executed and where?

Answer 25

In 1572 in York

Question 26

F:What did the rebellion lack?

Answer 26

It lacked a coherent programme and it was poorly planned

Question 27

F: What was limited?

Answer 27

The rebels’ support was limited geographically

Question 28

F: What was their big flaw?

Answer 28

Their inability go gain support from the Catholic gentry in Cheshire and Lancashire

Question 29

F: Where was the rebels’ power, to an extent, confined to?

Answer 29

North Riding and Yorkshire