Tudor Women Quiz

Q1) Which Tudor woman named her dog "Gardiner" after Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and dressed it in vestments in a mock parade?

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset

Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk

Anne Boleyn

Catherine Parr

Q2) This English saint known as the "Pearl of York" was pressed to death in 1586 for harbouring priests.

Margaret Clitherow

Anne Vaux

Anne Line

Margaret Ward

Q3) This former maid of honour to Elizabeth I was betrothed to poet Philip Sidney before her marriage to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. She was abandoned by Oxford after he accused her of infidelity.

Mildred Cooke

Elizabeth Brooke

Elizabeth Throckmorton

Anne Cecil

Q4) This Tudor woman was known for her high standard of education, her huge library, and her fluency in Greek (and other languages).

Penelope Devereux

Frances Walsingham

Mildred Cecil

Anne Stanhope

Q5) This Tudor lady was the wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon and the mother of Sir Francis Bacon, and is known for her letter-writing, piety and education.

Anne Cooke

Mary Talbot

Mary Sidney

Anne Vavasour

Q6) This Tudor woman was a patron of Roger Ascham, a keen Protestant, and the wife of Sir William Herbert.

Anne Askew

Anne Stanhope

Anne Parr

Anne Russell

Q7) This lady was the daughter of the Earl of Bedford and became the Countess of Warwick.

Margaret Knyvet

Anne Russell

Anne Vavasour

Margaret St John

Q8) This niece of King Henry VIII became Countess of Cumberland.

Eleanor Brandon

Frances Brandon

Margaret Clifford

Anne Brandon

Q9) This woman has been called "the most powerful woman in the land next to Queen Elizabeth I" and was a very shrewd businesswoman.

Mary Sidney

Lettice Knollys

Catherine Carey

Elizabeth Hardwick

Q10) This Tudor woman was a writer, poet, and literary patron, and was also known for her beauty.

Lettice Knollys

Mary Herbert

Elizabeth Browne

Elizabeth Seymour