WOTR Knowledge Tests (1461-1470) “Edward IV’s First Reign”

Question 1

What titles were Edward’s brother’s given?

Answer 1

George, Duke of Clarence and Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Question 2

What positions did the Nevilles get?

Answer 2

Lord Fauconberg - Earl of Kent
Lord Montagu - Earl of Northumberland
George Neville - Archbishop of York
Warwick - Viceroy of the North

Question 3

Who was made treasurer in 1463?

Answer 3

Lord Grey

Question 4

Who was made Earl of Pembroke?

Answer 4

Sir William Herbert

Question 5

What year were the Channel islands attacked by the French?

Answer 5

1461

Question 6

How many nobles did Edward have attained from Towton?

Answer 6

14

Question 7

3 northern castles had been captured by Edward by April 1462, which did he return to Ralph Percy as part of his policy of Appeasement?

Answer 7

Dunstanburgh (Dec 1462, Percy has betrayed him March 1463)

Question 8

Where did Anjou attack in October 1462 with 800 men?

Answer 8

Bamburgh

Question 9

Who was killed at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor in 1464?

Answer 9

Ralph Percy

Question 10

Who defeated the Lancastrians at Hedgley Moor and Hexham?

Answer 10

Lord Montague

Question 11

Who was killed at the Battle of Hexham?

Answer 11

Somerset, Hungerford and Roos

Question 12

When did Edward make a truce with France (new Louis XI)?

Answer 12

October 1463

Question 13

When did Edward make a truce with Scotland? (James III)

Answer 13

December 1463

Question 14

What month and year was Henry VI captured?

Answer 14

July 1465

Question 15

What year was Edward granted customs duties for life?

Answer 15

1465 (additional £25,000 a year)

Question 16

What did Edward use to improve income from Crown Lands?

Answer 16

Land Revenue Experiment

Question 17

What did Edward replace the exchequer system with?

Answer 17

Chamber System

Question 18

How much did Edward manage to reduce the crown debt by?

Answer 18

£97,000

Question 19

In what year was retaining made illegal?

Answer 19

1468

Question 20

Who was Warwick arranging a marriage to Edward with?

Answer 20

France - Bona of Savoy

Question 21

When did Edward secretly marry Elizabeth Woodville!

Answer 21

1st May 1464

Question 22

Who did Thomas Grey (Elizabeth’s son) marry?

Answer 22

Anne Holland (heiress to the Duke of Exeter)

Question 23

Who did Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk (aged 85) marry?

Answer 23

John Woodville, Queen’s brother

Question 24

Who was Buckingham married to in 1465, which he resented?

Answer 24

Catherine Woodville

Question 25

Who became treasurer in 1466?

Answer 25

Earl Rivers (replacing Lord Mountjoy - Warwick’s uncle)

Question 26

What was Warwick’s income from his estates?

Answer 26

£7,000 p/a

Question 27

Who did Clarence want to marry, that was refused by Edward?

Answer 27

Isabelle Neville (Warwick’s daughter)

Question 28

In what year did Jasper Tudor try to launch an invasion of Wales?

Answer 28

1468

Question 29

Where did unrest break out in 1468?

Answer 29

Kent, Midlands

Question 30

What was the name of Edward IV’s father, according to the illegitimacy rumours spread by Clarence?

Answer 30

French archer, Blaybourne

Question 31

Who led a rebellion in the North, in April 1469?

Answer 31

Robin of Redesdale

Question 32

Warwick refused Edward’s order to stop the Robin of Redesdale’s rebellion, so who did stop it?

Answer 32

John Neville, Lord Montagu/Northumberland

Question 33

What date did Clarence marry Isabel?

Answer 33

11th July 1469

Question 34

Who did Warwick have executed after he had Edward in custody?

Answer 34

Earl Rivers, Sir John Woodville

Question 35

What positions did Richard Duke of Gloucester get in 1469-70?

Answer 35

Earl of Pembroke and Constable of England (Herbert and Rivers’ positions)

Question 36

Who replaced John Neville as the Earl of Northumberland?

Answer 36

Henry Percy

Question 37

What was the name of the battle where Edward defeated the rebellion of Clarence and Warwick in Lincolnshire, Spring 1470?

Answer 37

Battle of Epingham (Losecote)

Question 38

What was the name of the agreement between Anjou, Warwick and Louis XI?

Answer 38

Treaty of Angers

Question 39

Who married Prince Edward in 1470?

Answer 39

Anne Neville, Warwick’s daughter

Question 40

When did Warwick and Clarence land in England and drove out Edward?

Answer 40

September 1470

Question 41

What more did Warwick want?

Answer 41

Warwick desired that he be given Wardship of the whole of Wales

Question 42

How did Warwick and the Woodvilles’ views on foreign policy differ?

Answer 42

Warwick favoured a treaty with France but the Woodvilles influenced Edward to sign a treaty with Burgundah

Question 43

Treaty with Burgundy 1467

Answer 43

Enemy of France, Edward’s sister Margaret had to marry Charles the Bold of Burgundy.

Question 44

How did Clarence cause tension between Edward and Warwick?

Answer 44

He resented the marriage to the Woodvilles due to their influence. He was also ambitious and unstable so Warwick could consider him an alternative to Edward.

Question 45

Give an example of the Neville’s being demoted in court.

Answer 45

June 1467: Edward dismissed George Neville, Archbishop of York, from office as lord chancellor, to the approval of the Woodvilles. Earl Rivers was rewarded with the promotion to treasurer and constable.