Henrietta Maria of France - Quiz
Henrietta Maria of France
  • 1. Where was Henrietta Maria in August 1642?
A) The Hague
B) York
C) Oxford
D) Paris
  • 2. What was the primary purpose of Henrietta Maria's stay in The Hague?
A) Visiting her French relatives
B) Negotiating a peace treaty
C) Seeking asylum
D) Raising money for the Royalist cause
  • 3. What assets did Henrietta Maria use to raise money?
A) Tax revenue
B) Land holdings
C) Overseas investments
D) Royal jewels
  • 4. Which two leaders did Henrietta Maria attempt to persuade to support Charles?
A) Prince Frederick Henry of Orange and King Christian IV of Denmark
B) Prince Rupert and the Earl of Newcastle
C) The Earl of Essex and William Waller
D) King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
  • 5. What physical ailments did Henrietta Maria suffer from while in The Hague?
A) Fever and pneumonia
B) Gout and chronic fatigue
C) Broken limbs and back pain
D) Toothache, headaches, a cold, and coughs
  • 6. Why were buyers deterred from purchasing royal jewels from the Queen?
A) The jewels were fake
B) Fear that a future Parliament would reclaim them
C) International trade embargoes
D) The prices were too low
  • 7. How did the English press portray Henrietta Maria's efforts to sell jewels?
A) Selling crown jewels to buy guns for a religious conflict
B) A betrayal of the French crown
C) A charitable donation to the poor
D) A strategic financial maneuver
  • 8. Which strategic port did Henrietta Maria urge Charles to secure?
A) Hull
B) Dover
C) Portsmouth
D) Plymouth
  • 9. What happened to the baggage ship of her household during her first return attempt?
A) It was burned in the harbor
B) It sank near Texel
C) It was stolen by the Dutch
D) It was captured by pirates
  • 10. Where did Henrietta Maria land in England in early 1643?
A) Newcastle
B) Bristol
C) London
D) Bridlington
  • 11. Who was the Queen's pet dog that she returned under fire to save?
A) Spot
B) Mitte
C) Charlie
D) Rex
  • 12. Who entertained Henrietta Maria in style when she paused in York?
A) The Earl of Newcastle
B) Prince Rupert
C) King Charles I
D) The Earl of Antrim
  • 13. Whose plans did Henrietta Maria promote for an uprising in Scotland?
A) Essex
B) Hampden
C) Montrose
D) Pym
  • 14. What did Henry Marten and John Clotworthy destroy at Somerset House?
A) The royal stables
B) The treasury office
C) The private chapel
D) The Queen's library
  • 15. Whose altarpiece was destroyed by Parliamentarian troops at Somerset House?
A) Lely
B) Van Dyck
C) Holbein
D) Rubens
  • 16. Where did Henrietta Maria meet Charles in the summer of 1643?
A) Oxford
B) London
C) Kineton
D) York
  • 17. Who was sent to escort the Queen to Stratford-upon-Avon?
A) The Earl of Essex
B) Prince Rupert
C) Jermyn
D) The Earl of Newcastle
  • 18. Who was given a peerage by the king at Henrietta Maria's request?
A) Marten
B) Waller
C) Clotworthy
D) Jermyn
  • 19. Where did the Queen live while in Oxford?
A) Christ Church
B) The royal palace
C) Merton College
D) Magdalen College
  • 20. Where did the Queen decide to withdraw to in 1644 due to her pregnancy?
A) Oxford
B) Bath
C) London
D) Exeter
  • 21. Which Parliamentarian general planned to capture the Queen at Exeter?
A) William Waller
B) Henry Marten
C) John Clotworthy
D) The Earl of Essex
  • 22. Who did the king have to personally appeal to for the Queen's medical care?
A) The Queen's father
B) The court astrologer
C) de Mayerne
D) The royal surgeon
  • 23. Where did Henrietta Maria flee to France from?
A) Dover
B) Plymouth
C) Bristol
D) Falmouth
  • 24. What happened to the correspondence between Henrietta Maria and Charles in 1645?
A) It was lost at sea
B) It was sold to the French
C) It was captured and published
D) It was burned by the King
  • 25. Where did Charles seek shelter in May 1646?
A) Paris
B) Oxford
C) Southwell
D) The Hague
  • 26. What religious faith was Henrietta Maria?
A) Calvinist
B) Roman Catholic
C) Anglican
D) Protestant
  • 27. Where did Henrietta Maria cause controversy by praying in 1626?
A) Westminster Abbey
B) Somerset House
C) Greenwich Palace
D) Tyburn
  • 28. What name did the King publicly announce for the Queen?
A) Queen Henrietta
B) Queen Henriette
C) Queen Mary
D) Queen Maria
  • 29. What personal name did Charles I prefer to use for his wife?
A) Henriette
B) Maria
C) Mary
D) Henrietta
  • 30. What group did Henrietta Maria practice within her friend circle?
A) Oratorians
B) Devout Humanists
C) Précieuses
D) Calvinists
  • 31. Who was Henrietta Maria's principal confidante who was ordered to be dismissed?
A) Countess of Denbigh
B) Madame de Vantelet
C) Madame St. George
D) Marguerite Courtin
  • 32. Who was the Queen's chaplain and confessor that she managed to retain?
A) Sir Richard Wynn
B) The Bishop of Mende
C) Robert Phillip
D) George Carew
  • 33. Who became the Queen's treasurer after Jean Caille?
A) George Carew
B) Henry Jermyn
C) Sir Richard Wynn
D) Théodore de Mayerne
  • 34. Where did Henrietta Maria travel to take medicinal spring waters in 1627?
A) Wimbledon House
B) Somerset House
C) Greenwich
D) Wellingborough
  • 35. Which of these was a court dwarf acquired by the Queen?
A) Jeffrey Hudson
B) Madame Garnier
C) Henry Jermyn
D) Robert Phillip
  • 36. Which property was bought for the Queen by Charles in 1639?
A) Wimbledon House
B) Somerset House
C) Nonsuch Palace
D) Greenwich Palace
  • 37. When was the proxy marriage of Henrietta Maria and Charles held?
A) 2 February 1626
B) 13 June 1625
C) 1 May 1624
D) 1 May 1625
  • 38. How was Henrietta Maria allowed to witness the coronation?
A) She was not allowed to watch
B) By watching from the balcony of the palace
C) By watching from a discreet distance
D) By sitting beside Charles
  • 39. Which group became the target of English policy support after the pro-French policy failed?
A) The Catholic Church
B) The Spanish monarchy
C) French Huguenots
D) The Scottish Covenanters
  • 40. What language did Henrietta Maria have difficulty with as late as the 1640s?
A) Latin
B) Spanish
C) French
D) English
  • 41. What specific fear contributed to Henrietta Maria's unpopularity?
A) Financial bankruptcy
B) Loss of the American colonies
C) Papist subversion
D) French invasion
  • 42. How has Henrietta Maria been described regarding her political nature in the 1630s?
A) Aggressively political
B) A revolutionary leader
C) Intrinsically apolitical
D) A master strategist
  • 43. What is one area Henrietta Maria sponsored that contributed to her personal power?
A) The navy
B) The arts
C) Agriculture
D) Mining
  • 44. When was Charles crowned in Westminster Abbey?
A) 1 May 1625
B) 13 June 1625
C) 2 February 1626
D) 1 January 1630
  • 45. What was the birth name of Henrietta Maria?
A) Henriette Marie
B) Henrietta Anne
C) Maria Henriette
D) Marie Henrietta
  • 46. Who was Henrietta Maria's husband?
A) James I
B) Charles I
C) Henry IV
D) Louis XIII
  • 47. Which state in the United States was named in honor of Henrietta Maria?
A) Louisiana
B) Maryland
C) Carolina
D) Virginia
  • 48. In what year did Henrietta Maria return to England after the Restoration?
A) 1660
B) 1625
C) 1649
D) 1665
  • 49. Where was Henrietta Maria born?
A) Fontainebleau
B) Parisian Cathedral
C) Palais du Louvre
D) Versailles
  • 50. At what age did Henrietta Maria marry Charles I?
A) Seventeen
B) Thirteen
C) Nineteen
D) Fifteen
  • 51. Which religious order influenced Henrietta Maria during her youth?
A) Dominicans
B) Carmelites
C) Jesuits
D) Franciscans
  • 52. Who was Henrietta Maria's brother who later became King of France?
A) Louis XIII
B) Charles II
C) Louis XIV
D) Henry IV
  • 53. Where did Henrietta Maria seek refuge in 1644?
A) France
B) Spain
C) Scotland
D) Ireland
  • 54. Who was one of Henrietta Maria's closest companions in the early days of her marriage?
A) Lucy Hay
B) The Queen of France
C) Anne of Austria
D) Mary of Modena
  • 55. What religious background did Lucy Hay have?
A) Strict Catholic
B) Staunch Protestant
C) Atheist
D) Anglican convert
  • 56. What did many contemporaries believe about the relationship between Lucy Hay and the Duke of Buckingham?
A) They were business partners
B) They were lovers
C) They were political rivals
D) They were siblings
  • 57. What name did Charles use to address Henrietta Maria in his letters?
A) My Love
B) Dearest Henrietta
C) Dear Heart
D) My Queen
  • 58. In what year did Henrietta Maria split with Lucy Hay?
A) 1645
B) 1634
C) 1628
D) 1626
  • 59. What was one reason mentioned for the split between the Queen and Lucy Hay?
A) Hay lost her position at court
B) Hay joined the French military
C) Hay led a more dissolute life
D) Hay moved back to France
  • 60. Which Italian painter did Henrietta Maria specifically patronize after he arrived in England in 1626?
A) Orazio Gentileschi
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Guido Reni
D) Peter Paul Rubens
  • 61. Who was the designer appointed as Henrietta Maria's surveyor of works during the 1630s?
A) Inigo Jones
B) André Mollet
C) François Dieussart
D) Christopher Beeston
  • 62. In which 1640 masque did Henrietta Maria perform the role of an Amazon?
A) The Queen's House Masque
B) The Royalist Return
C) The Somerset House Pageant
D) Salmacida Spolia
  • 63. Which English composer was patronized by Henrietta Maria?
A) Thomas Heywood
B) Nicholas Lanier
C) John Pym
D) William Davenant
  • 64. Who was responsible for the baroque garden at Wimbledon House?
A) André Mollet
B) Hubert Le Sueur
C) François Dieussart
D) Inigo Jones
  • 65. Who designed the unusual monstrance found in Henrietta Maria's private chapel?
A) François Dieussart
B) Jean Petitot
C) Jacques Bourdier
D) Anthony van Dyck
  • 66. Which historian noted that Charles sought his wife's advice on every subject except religion?
A) John Pym
B) Wedgwood
C) Quinton Bone
D) Kevin Sharpe
  • 67. What did the lawyer William Prynne have done to him for calling women actresses 'notorious whores'?
A) Had his ears cut off
B) Was imprisoned for life
C) Was flogged and branded
D) Was exiled to France
  • 68. Which individual was flogged and mutilated for criticizing Henrietta Maria in a pamphlet in 1630?
A) John Pym
B) William Prynne
C) Henry Jermyn
D) Alexander Leighton
  • 69. Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1638 due to the Queen's influence?
A) Christopher Beeston
B) William Davenant
C) Nicholas Lanier
D) Thomas Heywood
  • 70. What was the name of the Parliamentary leader who placed increasing pressure on Charles by 1641?
A) Henry Jermyn
B) John Pym
C) Thomas Wentworth
D) William Laud
  • 71. Which painter did Henrietta Maria often commission for gifts or personal appreciation?
A) Guido Reni
B) Orazio Gentileschi
C) Peter Paul Rubens
D) Anthony van Dyck
  • 72. Who did Henrietta Maria appoint as her chancellor in Paris?
A) Henry Wilmot
B) John Colepeper
C) Sir Kenelm Digby
D) Lord John Byron
  • 73. When did Prince Charles finally join his mother in Paris?
A) July 1648
B) December 1647
C) January 1649
D) July 1646
  • 74. What did Henrietta Maria try to convince Charles to accept to gain Scottish support?
A) Catholicism
B) Presbyterian government
C) The Four Bills
D) Parliamentary rule
  • 75. What document did Charles secretly sign with the Scots?
A) The Royalist Accord
B) The Engagement
C) The Treaty of France
D) The Four Bills
  • 76. In what year was King Charles I executed?
A) 1646
B) 1649
C) 1651
D) 1648
  • 77. Which conflict in France limited the funds available to Henrietta Maria?
A) The Thirty Years War
B) The Fronde
C) The Hundred Years War
D) The Third English Civil War
  • 78. Which advisor did Henrietta Maria particularly dislike?
A) Clarendon
B) John Colepeper
C) Jermyn
D) Henry Wilmot
  • 79. Where did Charles II move his court in 1654?
A) Cologne
B) The Hague
C) Saint-Germain
D) Paris
  • 80. What was the nickname Henrietta Maria used for her daughter Henrietta?
A) Minette
B) Marie
C) Charlotte
D) Anne
  • 81. What did Henrietta Maria found in 1651?
A) A political council
B) A school for exiles
C) A convent at Chaillot
D) A military academy
  • 82. Which religion did Henrietta Maria attempt to convert Henry and James to?
A) Presbyterianism
B) Protestantism
C) Anglicanism
D) Catholicism
  • 83. Which of her children accompanied Henrietta Maria upon her return to England in 1660?
A) James
B) Charles II
C) Henrietta
D) Henry
  • 84. Who described Henrietta Maria as a "very little plain old woman"?
A) Charles II
B) Edward Hyde
C) Louis XIV
D) Samuel Pepys
  • 85. Whose pregnancy with James, Duke of York, horrified Henrietta Maria?
A) Henrietta
B) Anne Hyde
C) Mary
D) Anne Marie d'Orléans
  • 86. Who was the father of Anne Hyde?
A) Louis XIV
B) Edward Hyde
C) Philippe I
D) Charles II
  • 87. What illness caused the death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester?
A) Bronchitis
B) Smallpox
C) Lung infection
D) Influenza
  • 88. How old was Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, when he died?
A) 30
B) 18
C) 25
D) 20
  • 89. What health condition did Henrietta Maria suffer from in 1665?
A) Bronchitis
B) Arthritis
C) Pneumonia
D) Smallpox
  • 90. Who was the doctor that advised Henrietta Maria to take opiates?
A) Philippe I
B) Louis XIV
C) Edward Hyde
D) Antoine Vallot
  • 91. Who named a northwest headland in James Bay after Henrietta Maria?
A) Captain Thomas James
B) George Calvert
C) Kenelm Digby
D) Charles I
  • 92. Who portrayed Henrietta Maria in the 1970 movie Cromwell?
A) Glenda Jackson
B) Dorothy Tutin
C) Margaret Lockwood
D) Elizabeth Taylor
  • 93. On which side of her arms did Henrietta Maria place the crowned lion of England?
A) The dexter side
B) Below the motto
C) The sinister side
D) Above the crest
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