Weddings of Royalty 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: He was illegitimate

William's parents were not married with his mother marrying a different man and having other children. With the help of his great-uncle Archbishop Robert as well as King Henry I of France William came into his inheritance.

Answer: Lambeth Palace

Since Matilda was educated at a convent and didn't wish to become a nun the Council decided she was free to marry Henry. She and Henry were married in November 1100 and had two children William and Matilda.

Answer: 8 years

With Matilda being born in 1102 and her betrothal to Henry taking place in 1110, which makes her eight years old at her and Henry's betrothal. For Henry's part he was 24 giving them a sixteen-year age gap forcing them to wait four years to be married. In that time many people were giving her lessons on German culture and government.

Answer: 11 years

Henry was born in 1133 and Eleanor was born in 1122 when they were married in 1152 with an eleven-year age gap. Eleanor for her part was previously married to Louis VII of France, having two daughters who couldn't inherit the French Throne. Louis divorced Eleanor in order to have sons with a new wife. Eleanor and Henry had eight children from 1153 to 1166, her last being born when she was 44.

Answer: Twice

John married his first wife the wealthy Isabella of Gloucester in 1189 annulling it in 1200 in order to marry his second wife. John then married Isabella of Angouleme having four children along with twelve possible illegitimate children.

Answer: Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral is located in Canterbury, Kent where Thomas Becket's shrine is located in the Trinity Chapel of the cathedral.

Answer: Abbey of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas

Historically, the monastery has been the site of many weddings of royal families, both foreign and Spanish, including that of Edward and Eleanor in 1254. It also is the birthplace of King Peter of Castile whose two daughters Constance and Isabella married sons of Edward III of England.

Answer: Psalter and 21,000 Livres

Edward gifted his wife a Psalter, which was also called Psalter of Queen Isabella or Psalter of Isabella of England. It has been described as 11.3 inches by 8 inches and of 131 parchment pages. Isabella's father gave her gifts worth 21,000 livres and a fragment of the True Cross.

Answer: 2 years

In 1328, at the age of 18, Philippa married 16 year old Edward III at York Minster. Since Edward's mother Isabella of France was unwilling to relinquish her place the coronation was postponed for two years, by which time she was six months pregnant.

Answer: Three

His first marriage to his third cousin Blanche of Lancaster at Reading Abbey and had seven children before Blanche died in 1368. John's second marriage was to Constance of Castile having two children one of which Catherine of Aragon was descended from. John's third and final marriage was to Katherine Swynford who was his mistress before she was his wife.

The children born from this third marriage were legitimized in 1397 well after they had married and had their own children.

Answer: Nephew

A year after John Beaufort Duke of Somerset died in 1410 Margaret married John's nephew Thomas of Lancaster Duke of Clarence the son of Henry IV. They had no children.

Answer: 12

Margaret was chosen by Henry VI to marry his half-brother Edmund Tudor 1st Earl of Richmond. Margaret was 12 when she and Edmund were married just at The War of the Roses had just broken out. Edmund, a Lancastrian, was taken prisoner by Yorkist forces and died of the plague in captivity.

He left behind a 13-year-old widow who later gave birth to the future Henry VII. Due to her small size and age Margaret was never to have children again.

Answer: Multiple marriages

His children married more than once. Henry VIII married six times, Margaret married three times and Mary married twice. It is from Margaret the line descends from through two of her children.

Answer: Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox

After a failed attempt at an engagement and a failed affair Margaret married Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox in 1544. They had eight or nine children but only two sons survived to adulthood: Henry and Charles.

Answer: Half-first cousins

Darnley was his wife's half-first cousin through their grandmother Margaret Tudor. They had only one child James later James VI of Scotland and James I of England.