The Later Middle Ages 1200-1500

Question 1

What was the increase in towns between 1100 and 1300?

Answer 1

100 to 830

Question 2

What was the population of London by 1300?

Answer 2

80,000

Question 3

What were Jewish people classified as at this time?

Answer 3

Crown property

Question 4

What were the Jewish people of England ordered to wear in 1215?

Answer 4

A distinctive badge

Question 5

In 1255, how many Jewish men were executed for the murder of a Christian boy and who gave the order?

Answer 5

19
Henry III

Question 6

How much was the tallage of King John on Jewish people?

Answer 6

£40,000

Question 7

How many Jews converted to Christianity under the order of Henry III?

Answer 7

300

Question 8

What was the Statute of Jewry?

Answer 8

Forbade them from charging interest on loans.
Now had to earn a living through trade or labour.

Question 9

What year did Edward I expel the Jewish population from England?

Answer 9

1290

Question 10

Who rebuilt Westminster Abbey?

Answer 10

Henry III

Question 11

Why did the Magna Carta hold Henry III back?

Answer 11

He couldn’t levy much money through his feudal rights.

Question 12

How many unsuccessful requests for taxes did Henry III have?

Answer 12

8 out of 10

Question 13

Why was the Edward I’s killing of Simon de Montfort a turning point?

Answer 13

Signalled a new age of noble warfare.
Aristocrats could now be killed on the battlefield.

Question 14

Who did Robert the Bruce kill in a church and what year?

Answer 14

John Comyn
1306

Question 15

What happened at Methven?

Answer 15

Scottish defeat
Scottish nobles captured, hung, drawn and quartered
Female relatives put in cages

Question 16

When was the Hundred Years War?

Answer 16

1337-1453

Question 17

When did Edward III put forward his case for the French throne over Philip VI?

Answer 17

1337

Question 18

When was the Battle of Sluys?

Answer 18

1340

Question 19

What did Edward III create in 1344?

Answer 19

Order of the Garter
St George as the Patron Saint

Question 20

Who led the English to victory with a great chevauchee in 1355?

Answer 20

The Black Prince

Question 21

Who died in 1377 and who replaced him?

Answer 21

Edward III
Richard II (The Black Prince’s son)

Question 22

What were the 2 events in the 15th century regarding Henry V and Joan of Arc?

Answer 22

Battle of Agincourt 1415
Siege of Orleans 1428-29

Question 23

What happened between 1315 and 1322?

Answer 23

Great Famine
Due to wet weather and crop failures.
People tried to sell livestock and capital for grain

Question 24

How many died in the Great Famine?

Answer 24

500,000

Question 25

When was the Black Death?

Answer 25

1348-49

Question 26

How many people died due to the BD?

Answer 26

Half the population

Question 27

What percentage of peasants died due to the BD? (Compared with earls and barons)

Answer 27

40-70% 27%

Question 28

What was the Statute of Labourers 1351?

Answer 28

Now illegal to demand rates of pay above pre-outbreak.

Question 29

What was the Sumptuary Law 1363?

Answer 29

Addressed complaints of 'outrageous, excessive apparel' worn by peasants and merchants 'contrary to their estate and degree'

Question 30

What was the case of the Paston Family?

Answer 30

Clement Paston was a farmer from Norfolk that bought 100 acres and sent his son William to school for £2 per year. His grandson married Anne Beaufort (daughter of Duke of Somerset) who then amassed a great fortune.

Question 31

When was the Peasants' Revolt?

Answer 31

1381

Question 32

What happened in the Peasants' Revolt?

Answer 32

Poll Taxes brought in, 4th unsuccessful and unfair, Thomas Bampton beaten by rebels from Essex, 200 foreigners beheaded in London, Chancellor and Treasurer executed, Tower of London stormed.

Question 33

Who was one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt?

Answer 33

Wat Tyler (killed in late 1381)

Question 34

Who was the King during the Peasants' Revolt?

Answer 34

Richard II

Question 35

What happened at the first Battle of St Albans and when was it?

Answer 35

Henry VI taken under control by Richard Duke of York 1455

Question 36

When was Richard Duke of York designated as Henry VI's successor?

Answer 36

1460

Question 37

Where and when was Richard Duke of York killed?

Answer 37

Wakefield 1460

Question 38

Where and when was Henry VI rescued?

Answer 38

2nd Battle of St Albans 1461

Question 39

What was the battle that led to the crowning of Edward IV and when?

Answer 39

Battle of Towton 1461

Question 40

What was the death toll of the Battle of Towton?

Answer 40

26,000-28,000

Question 41

When was Henry VI killed?

Answer 41

1471

Question 42

When was Henry VI captured?

Answer 42

1465

Question 43

When did Edward IV die?

Answer 43

1483

Question 44

What was the final battle of the Wars of the Roses?

Answer 44

Battle of Bosworth in 1485 Defeat of Richard III Crowning of Henry VI Establishment of Tudor dynasty