Tudors

Question 1

Middle Age treaty between Scotland and France, which could be revived at any time

Answer 1

The Auld Alliance

Question 2

2 reasons why Spain was England’s obvious ally for war against France

Answer 2

1. Henry VII had allied with Spain

2. Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon had married Arthur (and would later go on to marry Henry VIII)

Question 3

Year that Henry was crowned, and married Catherine of Aragon

Answer 3

1509

Question 4

2 of Henry’s main early advisors, who opposed war with France, and in 1510 manipulated the king to extend his father’s truce with France

Answer 4

1. Archbishop Warham

2. Bishop Fox

Question 5

Name of the loose alliance of the Pope, Ferdinand, Henry, the Venetians, and the Swiss, which was directed against French ambitions in Italy

Answer 5

The Holy League

Question 6

Year that Henry launched an attack on Guienne in south-west France, as a member of the Holy League

Answer 6

1512

Question 7

Although Henry expected support from Ferdinand in his 1512 French campaign, what did Ferdinand view Henry as?

Answer 7

A distraction to enable him to seize Navarre

Question 8

What did Ferdinand do after seizing Navarre, which left Henry high and dry?

Answer 8

Made peace with Louis XII

Question 9

Name and date of the battle which enabled Henry to take the French town of Therouanne: to call it a battle is an overstatement, as the French cavalry didn’t engage in combat

Answer 9

Battle of the Spurs; August 1513

Question 10

Who did Henry put in charge of supplying the army and organising his 1513 French campaign?

Answer 10

Wolsey

Question 11

Year that Henry made his first attack on France without relying on his allies Ferdinand or Maximilian

Answer 11

1513

Question 12

2 towns taken by Henry in the 1513 French campaign

Answer 12

1. Tournai

2. Therouanne

Question 13

Date of peace treaty between France and England, which agreed that:

1. Henry would keep control of Tournai and Therouanne
2. Louis XII would marry Henry’s sister Mary

Answer 13

August 1514

Question 14

Name and date of the battle fought at the Scottish border, the climax of Scottish aggression, in which James IV was killed

Answer 14

Battle of the Flodden; September 1513

Question 15

Date that James IV renewed the Auld Alliance with France

Answer 15

November 1512

Question 16

Number of troops raised by James IV for the Battle of the Flodden, the largest army raised in Scottish history to that date

Answer 16

30k

Question 17

2 reasons why Henry’s Privy Council was right to be suspicious of James IV leading up to the Battle of the Flodden

Answer 17

1. Renewal of the Auld Alliance

2. Gathering of the biggest army in Scottish history

Question 18

Name of man in charge of English forces at the Battle of the Flodden

Answer 18

Earl of Surrey

Question 19

Number of English troops which remained in England to fight at the Battle of the Flodden

Answer 19

15k - 20k

Question 20

What percentage of the Scottish army was killed at the Battle of the Flodden?

Answer 20

33%