Tudor Quizzes:

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1. What year did Bessie Blount (mother of Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy) come to court? |
2. On what day was Henry VIII's 'official' birthday celebrated? |
3. Before her marriage to the King of France, Henry VIII's younger sister Mary Tudor was betrothed to the Archduke Charles of Austria, Prince of Castile. Who was appointed her chief lady-in-waiting? |
4. On 13 August 1514, Mary Tudor was married by proxy to Louis XII of France. Who stood in for the king at the ceremony? |
5. In 1515, Fray Diego Fernandez, Katharine of Aragon's Spanish confessor, was sent from court. Of what charge had an ecclesiastical court convicted him? |
6. At Henry VIII's court, who was allowed to wear cloth of gold? |
7. Maria de Salinas was Katharine of Aragon's favorite lady-in-waiting. In June 1516, she married which English gentleman? |
8. After 1517, how many more times did Henry VIII see his older sister Margaret? |
9. In 1518, England signed the 'Treaty of Universal and Perpetual Peace' with which countries? |
10. Where was Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, born? |

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Some of these questions are extra hard, simply to give Tudor enthusiasts a challenge. All answers can be verified in Weir's 'Henry VIII: The King and His Court.'