Not a very nice subject, but I do hope you enjoy testing your knowledge in the religious persecutions and executions of the Tudor era.
Religious Persecutions and Executions
Correct!
Wrong! They were Carthusian monks.
Correct!
Wrong! It was in 1546.
Correct! The wording from her sentence was:
"You believe that the Word was made flesh in the virgin, but that Christ took flesh of the virgin you believe not; because the flesh of the virgin being the outward man sinfully gotten, and born in sin, but the Word by the consent of the inward man of the virgin was made flesh. This dogma, with obstinate, obdurate, and pertinacious mind, you affirm, and not without much haughtiness of mien. With wonderful blindness of heart, to this you hold; therefore, for your demerits, obstinacy, and contumacy, aggravated by a wicked and damnable pertinacity, being also unwilling to return to the faith of the church, you are, adjudged a heretic, to be handed to the secular power, to suffer in due course of law, and finally the ban of the great excommunication is upon you."
Wrong! For her Anabaptist beliefs. The wording from her sentence was:
"You believe that the Word was made flesh in the virgin, but that Christ took flesh of the virgin you believe not; because the flesh of the virgin being the outward man sinfully gotten, and born in sin, but the Word by the consent of the inward man of the virgin was made flesh. This dogma, with obstinate, obdurate, and pertinacious mind, you affirm, and not without much haughtiness of mien. With wonderful blindness of heart, to this you hold; therefore, for your demerits, obstinacy, and contumacy, aggravated by a wicked and damnable pertinacity, being also unwilling to return to the faith of the church, you are, adjudged a heretic, to be handed to the secular power, to suffer in due course of law, and finally the ban of the great excommunication is upon you."
Correct! He was burned at the stake on 4th February 1555.
Wrong! It was John Rogers. He was burned at the stake on 4th February 1555.
Correct! Latimer and Ridley were burned on 16th October 1555 and Cranmer was burned on 21st March 1556.
Wrong! They were The Oxford Martyrs. Latimer and Ridley were burned in Oxford on 16th October 1555 and Cranmer was burned there on 21st March 1556.
Correct! Pope Pius V also called on Catholics to rebel against the Queen.
Wrong! It was Pope Pius V's excommunication of Elizabeth and his call on Catholics to rebel against her.
Correct!
Wrong! He was executed in Vilvoorde.
Correct, although Stratford-atte-Bow saw many burnings in June 1556.
Wrong! It was Smithfield.
Correct! She was hanged at Tyburn.
Wrong! She was hanged at Tyburn.
Correct!
Wrong! It was Thomas Cranmer.
Correct!
Wrong! He was a laywer.
Correct! She was pressed to death in the Toll Booth on the Ouse Bridge.
Wrong! She was pressed to death in the Toll Booth on the Ouse Bridge in York.
Correct! His sister Mary Hall had been in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household with Catherine and had shared with her brother details of Catherine's sexual history.
Wrong! It was Catherine Howard. His sister Mary Hall had been in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household with Catherine and had shared with her brother details of Catherine's sexual history.
Correct!
Wrong! It was Rochester.
I love these quizzes. I’m terrible at most of them, so it really brings out my need to read more. I’m not that great at American history either 🙂
got to work a little harder – love the quiz idea
these quizzes are a lot of fun and very informative- great way to keep on learning-
I am really enjoying the Tudor Society- Claire you have done a fabulous job!!
I live in New York, USA and have always been fascinated with the Tudors.
Thanks so much.
Ricki Mitchell