Richard of Gloucester's coup and the consequences, 1483

Question 1

What was set up, allegedly largely rejecting the will of Edward IV, and was dominated by the Woodvilles?

Answer 1

Minority council

Question 2

What title was given to Richard of Gloucester after his brother’s death?

Answer 2

Protector

Question 3

What were the Woodvilles anxious to organise as quickly as possible?

Answer 3

Edward V’s coronation

Question 4

Whose dispute with Dorset led him to oppose the Woodvilles in the minority council?

Answer 4

Lord Hastings

Question 5

Who arrested Anthony Woodville and Richard Grey the morning after dining with them at Stony Stratford?

Answer 5

Richard of Gloucester

Question 6

On which day did Gloucester, Buckingham and Edward V enter London?

Answer 6

4 May 1483

Question 7

What did the minority council refuse to agree that Rivers and Richard Grey had committed?

Answer 7

Treason

Question 8

Which new and later date did the council set for Edward V’s coronation after Gloucester’s arrival?

Answer 8

22 June 1483

Question 9

Who did Richard make Chief Justice and Chamberlain in Wales as well as controller of royal castles there?

Answer 9

Buckingham

Question 10

What did Gloucester order to be sent to him from the north, especially York, in early June?

Answer 10

Military reinforcements

Question 11

When did Gloucester arrest Hastings, Lord Stanley and John Morton, on charges of treason?

Answer 11

13 June 1483

Question 12

Who, backed by armed men, persuaded the Queen to allow the Duke of York to leave sanctuary?

Answer 12

Archbishop Thomas Bourchier

Question 13

Who preached the ‘rightful’ title of Gloucester to the crown at St Paul’s Cross on 22 June 1483?

Answer 13

Ralph Shaw

Question 14

Who did Buckingham address on 24 June 1483 in support of Richard of Gloucester’s claim to the throne?

Answer 14

Mayor of London

Question 15

Who was it alleged that Edward IV had been pre-contracted to marry before Elizabeth Woodville?

Answer 15

Lady Eleanor Butler

Question 16

Who was excluded from the succession on the grounds of his father’s attainder for treason?

Answer 16

Edward of Warwick

Question 17

Where were Rivers, Grey and Vaughan executed on 25 June 1483 on Gloucester’s orders?

Answer 17

Pontefract

Question 18

When did Gloucester take the throne and was formally acknowledged as King Richard III?

Answer 18

26 June 1483

Question 19

Which family is it argued that Gloucester was afraid of in 1483?

Answer 19

Woodvilles

Question 20

Which powerful elder step-son of Edward IV was using the royal treasure to equip a fleet in 1483?

Answer 20

Thomas Grey

Question 21

Who was put in charge of a fleet that was being assembled in 1483?

Answer 21

Edward Woodville

Question 22

Whose death was alleged that the Woodville family had been heavily involved in?

Answer 22

George of Clarence

Question 23

What might Gloucester have feared because the new king had been raised by the Woodvilles?

Answer 23

Edward V’s minority

Question 24

What did Gloucester allege that the Woodvilles had attempted to do through an ambush on his journey to London?

Answer 24

Kill him

Question 25

What has it been suggested that Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 out of fear of losing?

Answer 25

northern estates

Question 26

Which son of Montagu was Richard’s ward and whose lands he held only as long as he lived?

Answer 26

George Neville

Question 27

When did George Neville die without any children?

Answer 27

4 May 1483

Question 28

Who coordinated rebellion against Richard III through secret messages to Elizabeth Woodville?

Answer 28

Margaret Beaufort

Question 29

Where did Buckingham's rebellion start ten days too early, alerting John Howard?

Answer 29

Kent

Question 30

Which loyal supporter of Richard III was made Duke of Norfolk just two days after Richard became king?

Answer 30

John Howard

Question 31

Which Earl of Lincoln and nephew of Richard III became a prominent supporter of the regime?

Answer 31

John de la Pole

Question 32

Which 4th Earl of Northumberland was a prominent northerner that actively supported Richard III?

Answer 32

Henry Percy

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Lord Stanley

Question 34

Which prisoner played a major role in persuading Buckingham to rebel in Autumn 1483?

Answer 34

John Morton

Question 35

Who were the risings from late September 1483 initially intended to restore to the throne?

Answer 35

Edward V

Question 36

When was an unsuccessful attempt made to free the royal princes from the Tower?

Answer 36

late July 1483

Question 37

Who, according to Vergil and More, executed the murder of the princes in the Tower on Richard III’s orders?

Answer 37

James Tyrell

Question 38

Which lieutenant of the Tower of London allegedly (Vergil) refused Richard III’s orders to kill the princes?

Answer 38

Robert Brackenbury

Question 39

Which group regarded Richard III as a usurper and wanted revenge for Edward IV’s children?

Answer 39

Edward IV’s household

Question 40

Who attempted to rescue the Princes from the Tower and Edward IV’s daughters from sanctuary?

Answer 40

Sir John Cheney

Question 41

Which uprising in late 1483 was largely led by gentry from southern English counties and the Woodvilles?

Answer 41

Buckingham’s rebellion

Question 42

Who joined and later became the focus of the rebellion of 1483 but failed to land in England?

Answer 42

Henry Tudor

Question 43

What was one of the main reasons for the failure of Buckingham’s Rebellion in late 1483?

Answer 43

Poor co-ordination

Question 44

What did Richard III have that warned him of the 1483 rebellion?

Answer 44

Spy network

Question 45

Who had a distant claim to the throne through Thomas of Woodstock?

Answer 45

Buckingham

Question 46

Where was Buckingham executed on 2 November 1483 after being captured in Wales?

Answer 46

Salisbury

Question 47

What did 104 persons connected with Buckingham's rebellion suffer in the parliament of 1484?

Answer 47

Attainder

Question 48

What was the total value of the confiscated lands Richard granted to his loyal, mainly northern followers in 1484?

Answer 48

£12,000

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Richard Ratcliffe

Question 50

Where did Buckingham fail to gather sufficent support for the rebellion in October 1483?

Answer 50

Wales