Line of Succession Trivia Quiz

Answer: Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine

Henry was nineteen when he married Eleanor and their relationship, always stormy, eventually died. After Eleanor encouraged her children to rebel against their father in 1173, Henry had her placed under house-arrest, where she remained for sixteen years. Henry and Eleanor had eight children, William, Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan.

Answer: William II & Henry I

William II reigned as King of England from September 9, 1087 when William the Conqueror died. He never married nor produced any children and was rumored to be a homosexual. He was later shot with an arrow in New Forest, England August 2, 1100 by William Tyrell. Henry I married his first wife, Edith of Scotland, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, and she died on May 1, 1118.

She gave him two children: Matilda and William (who died young). His second wife Adeliza gave him no children so Henry had pursuaded the barons to accept his daughter Matilda as his heir.

Henry also produced 20 to 25 illegitimate children.

Answer: Matilda & Jane

Matilda married Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and secondly to Geoffrey Count of Anjou. This second marriage produced three sons: Henry, Geoffrey and William. When Henry I died she was named by him as his heir but she styled herself "Lady of the English".

When it became quite obvious that she would never be crowned queen of England she left by walking across the frozen river in a white nightgown. Her son would later become King Henry II of England. Jane was chosen by John Dudley Duke of Northumberland to be King Edward VI's heir in order to maintain Protestantism.

She was claimed to have said, "No, the crown is not my right. It is The Lady Mary's" upon knowing she was now queen. She was married under duress to John Dudley's son Guilford Dudley whom she hated intensely.

She, Guilford, Cranmer and John Dudley were later executed in the early year of Queen Mary I's reign.

Answer: Richard II

Richard was the son of The Black Prince of Wales who died during the reign of Edward III. Richard was married to Anne of Bohemia and lastly to Isabelle of Valois, neither of which produced any children. His second wife was eight years old at the time of the marriage. He died February 14, 1400 by starvation.

Answer: Henry VII

King Henry VII (Henry VIII's father) was descended from John of Gaunt via his third marriage to Katerine Swynford. Here's how it goes:

John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster
John Beaufort 1st Earl of Somerset, son of John of Gaunt (son)
John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset, son of Earl of Somerset (grandson)
Lady Margaret Beaufort, daughter of Duke of Somerset (great-granddaughter)
Henry VII King of England, son of Lady Margaret Beaufort (great-great-grandson)

Answer: Elizabeth, Edward, Richard

Elizabeth married Henry VII producing six children three of whom lived to adulthood (Henry VIII, Margaret and Mary).
Edward and Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III after he had declared them illegitimate. They were never seen again.

Answer: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I

Of the five Tudor monarchs three of them (Henry VII & VIII & Mary I) married and of those three only two produced children (Henry VII & VIII). The House of Tudor reigned from 1485 to 1603. Jane was "unofficially" proclaimed Queen for 10 days from 10-19 July 1553 - but the validity of her claim to the throne is disputed and has never been officially recognized. The Privy Council chose Mary as the successor of Edward VI nine days after his death.
[she had been nominated, by King Edward VI in his will, to be his successor]

Answer: Anne Neville

Anne Neville married Edward, son of Henry VI who died while still Prince of Wales. She later married a soon to be Richard III.
Elizabeth Woodville and Catherine Parr were widows when they married their new husbands but their first husbands were not royalty.

Answer: James IV, James V, Mary, James VI

James IV died at Flodden Field leaving his son James V as King with his mother Margaret Tudor as his brief regent.
James V married as his second wife Marie de Guise who produced one live child: Mary Stuart who became Queen of Scots only six days after her birth.
Mary married three times: Francis II of France, Henry Lord Darnley and James Earl of Bothwell. Only her second marriage produced a single child: James VI/I. She later abdicated shortly after marrying James Earl of Bothwell who died insane in a Danish prison.
James VI married Anne of Denmark and had several children one of whom was Charles I.

Answer: Grandchildren of Margaret Tudor

Mary was Margaret's grandchild via her first marriage to King James IV of Scotland. Darnley was her grandchild via her second marriage (of three marriages) to Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus.

Answer: James V of Scotland

The Earl of Morray was the illegitimate son of James V of Scotland. He later supported the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland in getting Queen Mary of Scotland to abdicate.

Answer: Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond

Fitzroy was the only illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount during his marriage with Catherine of Aragon. Fitzroy later married Lady Mary Howard with rumors of Queen Anne Boleyn supporting or being furious of the match.

Answer: She had no children

Elizabeth I was famous for being The Virgin Queen and never had a child. Rumor had it that a doctor of the Queen told her childbirth might not be easy for her which scared her into not getting married.

Answer: Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward

Charles married Lady Diana Spencer and had two sons: William and Henry (Harry) and then married Camilla Parker Bowles.
Anne married Mark Phillips producing two children: Peter and Zara.
Andrew married Sarah Ferguson which produced two daughters before they were divorced.
Edward married Sophie Rhys Jones and produced two children: James and Louise.

Answer: No

King James II had a son named James who was christened into the Roman Catholic Church like his father. The country disliked Roman Catholicism (which at the time was regarded as a vehicle for monarchic absolutism) so they declared for his daughter Mary and her husband William who reigned jointly (till the death of Mary II).

The King of France declared James II's son James III upon James II's death but the boy was never be crowned and remained a pretender.