The Ancient House Quiz

1. 1213: Gilbert, 4th Earl of Clare heads a conspiracy whose members meet at Bury St Edmunds. To what purpose??

To force King John to sign the Magna Carta
To ask the French Dauphin, Louis the Fat, for help
To rescue Robin Hood from Nottingham jail

2. 1265: Gilbert, 9th Earl of Clare, the Red Earl, is second in command to Simon de Montfort in achieving what?

The conquest of Ireland, and the creation of County Clare
The conquest of Wales
To force Henry III to call the first Parliament

3. 1314: Gilbert, 10th Earl of Clare warns his uncle Edward II not to send the cavalry into a bog, to attack the Scots. His advice ignored, he is among the casualties at which English disaster?

Flodden Field
Bannockburn
Stirling

4. 1326: Elizabeth, sister and heiress of the 10th Earl, founded which university college?

Clare College, Cambridge
Brasenose College, Oxford
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

5. An early 15th century carving in Clare marks the marriage of Richard Plantagenet to Anne Mortimer. It shows a chained swan, symbol of the House of Lancaster; the arms of Richard's father, the Duke of York, and the arms of the Mortimers, heirs of the Duke of Clarence. Which had the best hereditary right to the throne of England?

The House of Lancaster
The House of York
The Mortimers