Religious Motivations

Question 1

Details of Philip’s personal piety

Answer 1

Jeronomite monastery in El Escorial

He attended Mass daily

Question 2

What percentage of Granada had been Morisco before the revolt?

Answer 2

54%

Question 3

How many autos de fe took place in Granada

Answer 3

12, between 1550 and 1580

Question 4

How much Morisco land was confiscated following the 1563 edict?

Answer 4

100,000 hectares

Question 5

How much did the Morisco revolt cost?

Answer 5

Three million ducats

Question 6

How many Moriscos died following the redistributions of 1570?

Answer 6

120,000 (HK)

Question 7

What percentage loss did the Granadine population suffer?

Answer 7

28%

Question 8

When was Antonio Perez arrested by the Inquisition in Aragon?

Answer 8

May 1591

Question 9

When was Elizabeth I excommunicated?

Answer 9

1570

Question 10

When was the Treaty of Nonesuch?

Answer 10

1585

Question 11

When was the battle of Lepanto?

Answer 11

1571

Question 12

When did Philip agree a peace treaty with the Ottomans?

Answer 12

1578

Question 13

When did Pope Clement VIII recognise Henry IV as King of France?
When did Philip stop fighting him?

Answer 13

1595

1598

Question 14

When was Archbishop Carranza arrested?

How long was he confined for?

Answer 14

1559

7 Years

Question 15

When were the Jesuit order founded by Ignatius Loyola?

Answer 15

1534

Question 16

Who was the first non-Spanish General of the Jesuits?

When did he take over?

Answer 16

Everard Mercurian, a Belgian

1573

Question 17

When were the Tridentine Decrees?

Answer 17

1564

They were delayed for six months by Philip

Question 18

Name the ‘three graces’

Answer 18

Cruzada, Subsidio and Excusado (added in 1567)

Question 19

How much of the church’s income was payed to Philip?

Answer 19

As much as 50%

Question 20

How were the Protestant scares limited?

Answer 20

Only in Valladolid and Seville
Only from 1550s to 1562
Only 77 heretics burned

Question 21

What materials were banned by the Inquisition?

Answer 21

14 bibles and 670 books in 1559

Question 22

How did Philip show his personal support for the Inquisition?

Answer 22

He personally attended autos de fe in Valladolid in 1550