The Tudor Society

The Dudley Family Quiz

Claire Ridgway
A portrait of John Dudley from the collection at Knole in Kent.

This week's Sunday quiz tests your knowledge of one of my very favourite Tudor families, the Dudleys.

How much do you know about them?

Find out in this fun quiz!

The Dudley Family Quiz

Q1) Guildford Dudley was a son of John Dudley, but where did his name "Guildford" come from?

It was his mother's maiden name

He was born in Guildford in Surrey

He was conceived at Guildford

His father's mother was a Guildford

Correct!
Wrong! It was his mother's maiden name.

Q2) In 1551, John Dudley was made Duke of Northumberland, but what was his title before that?

Earl of Arundel

Marquess of Northampton

Earl of Leicester

Earl of Warwick

Correct!
Wrong! He was Earl of Warwick.

Q3) True or false: John Dudley's father was Edmund Dudley, a man who was executed for high treason in 1510?

True

False

Correct!
Wrong! It's true.

Q4) Ambrose Dudley, son of John Dudley, was married three times - Anne Whorwood, Elizabeth Tailboys and Anne Russell. Historian Elizabeth Norton believes that his second wife might actually have been fathered by this man ....

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Ambrose's own father, John Dudley

Thomas Cromwell

Henry VIII

Correct!
Wrong! It's Henry VIII.

Q5) Guildford Dudley married Lady Jane Grey on 25th May 1553 in a triple wedding ceremony. What was the name of his sister who also got married on this day?

Catherine

Mary

Jane

Eleanor

Correct! She was just 12 and she married Lord Henry Hastings, son of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon.
Wrong! Her name was Catherine. Lord Henry Hastings, son of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon.

Q6) True or false: John Dudley's daughter, Mary, was the mother of Tudor poets Philip and Robert Sidney?

True

False

Correct! She was also the mother of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.
Wrong! It's true. She was also the mother of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.

Q7) Members of the Dudley family were imprisoned in the Tower of London after the fall of Lady Jane Grey in summer 1553. There is a carving is the Beauchamp Tower with flowers/plants to represent their names - roses for Ambrose Dudley, honeysuckle for Henry Dudley (Lonicera henryi) and Gilly Flower for Guildford Dudley, but what was used for Robert Dudley?

Lilies of the Valley

Pansies

A vine and grapes

Oak leaves and acorns

Correct! Quercus robur is the Latin for English oak).
Wrong! Oak leaves and acorns represented Robert Dudley (Quercus robur is the Latin for English oak).

Q8) Robert Dudley, son of John Dudley, was married twice. His first wife was Amy Robsart, but who was his second wife?

Elizabeth Throckmorton

Lettice Knollys

Catherine Carey

Frances Walsingham

Correct!
Wrong! It was Lettice Knollys (or Devereux).

Q9) Robert Dudley had two sons, both named Robert. Who was the mother of explorer and cartographer Sir Robert Dudley?

Lettice Knollys

Douglas Sheffield

Amy Robsart

Alice Leigh

Correct! Douglas was the daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.
Wrong! It was Douglas Sheffield, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.

Q10) John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was executed in the reign of Queen Mary I, but on which date?

23 February 1554

12 February 1554

22 September 1553

22 August 1553

Correct!
Wrong! It was 22 August 1553.

Q11) True or false: Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his 4-year-old son, Robert, were buried in Westminster Abbey?

True

False

Correct! They were buried at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick.
Wrong! They were buried at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick.

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