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The ‘seats’ and residences of Plantagenet and Tudor nobility

Claire Ridgway

How much do you know about the residences of Plantagenet and Tudor families? Test your knowledge with this fun quiz.

The 'seats' and residences of Plantagenet and Tudor nobility

Q1) Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winning novel "Wolf Hall" takes its name from the seat of which family?

The Boleyns

The Howards

The Seymours

The Dudleys

Correct! Wolf Hall, or Wulf Hall, was in Wiltshire.
Wrong! It was the Seymour family home and was in Wiltshire.

Q2) Edward VI gave Framlingham Castle to his half-sister Mary but which family had owned it previously?

The Howards

The De Veres

The Nevilles

The Percys

Correct, although Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, had made more use of Kenninghall and Stoke-by-Nayland.
Wrong! It had belonged to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.

Q3) Warwick Castle is known for being the seat of the de Beauchamp family and the residence of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and "the Kingmaker", but who was granted the castle in 1547?

Ambrose Dudley

Robert Dudley

Thomas Seymour

John Dudley

Correct! He was also made Earl of Warwick.
Wrong! It was John Dudley, who was also made Earl of Warwick.

Q4) Coughton Court in Warwickshire has been home to which family since the early 15th century?

The Vaux family

The Treshams

The Throckmortons

The de Vere family

Correct! Although it now belongs to the National Trust a member of the Throckmorton family still resides there as a tenant.
Wrong! It's home to the Throckmorton family. Although it now belongs to the National Trust a member of the Throckmorton family still resides there as a tenant.

Q5) The Boleyns made Hever Castle their family home in around 1505, but where had they resided previously?

Blickling Hall

Framlingham Castle

Rochford Hall

Kenninghall

Correct!
Wrong! It was Blickling Hall in Norfolk.

Q6) Which of these houses was the residence of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and his wife Mary Tudor, Queen of France?

Parham Old Hall

Westhorpe Hall

Gainsborough Old Hall

Grimsthorpe Castle

Correct!
Wrong! It was Westhorpe Hall.

Q7) Alnwick Castle has been home to which family for over 700 years?

The Percy family

The Darcy family

The Russell family

The Vaux family

Correct!
Wrong! It's the Percy family.

Q8) Penshurst Place is known for being the ancestral home of the Sidney family, having been granted to them by Edward VI in 1552, but which family had owned it before it became crown property in 1521?

The Dudleys

The Greys

The Clintons

The Staffords

Correct! Its owner, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was executed in 1521.
Wrong! It had belonged to the Staffords before Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was executed in 1521.

Q9) Which property belonging to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, did Elizabeth I visit and stay at in 1575?

Kenilworth Castle

Warwick Castle

Dudley Castle

Leicester House

Correct!
Wrong! It was Kenilworth Castle.

Q10) Mary, Queen of Scots, was kept prisoner for a time at Sheffield Manor and Sheffield Castle - who did they belong to?

George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury

Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

Amyas Paulet

Correct!
Wrong! They belonged to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

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