Starter quiz
- Who did King Alfred want to help so they could fight the Vikings too?
- King Mercia ✓
- King Wessex
- King Northumbria
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- What was Aethelflaed (King Alfred's daughter) like?
- She was shy and quiet.
- She was brave and strong. ✓
- She was scared and worried.
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- True or False? Aethelflaed married Aethelred (King of Mercia).
- True ✓
- False
- Pick the right word to finish this sentence. When the King of Mercia died, Aethelflaed became know as the Lady of ___________.
- East Anglia
- Wessex
- Mercia ✓
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- What did Aethelflaed ask her soldiers to find on their special mission?
- the lost books of Saint Oswald
- the lost bones of Saint Oswald ✓
- the lost bottles of Saint Oswald
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- What did finding the lost bones of Saint Oswald give Aethelflaed?
- more money
- more respect ✓
- more power
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Exit quiz
- Where was the special place called the Marches?
- between England and Ireland
- between England and Scotland
- between England and Wales ✓
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- What does the word 'descended' mean?
- People related by blood to older generations ✓
- People related by marriage to each other
- People related to each other by being sisters or brothers
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- True or false? Owain Glyndwr was born in the Marches and one day he would be the Prince of Wales.
- True ✓
- False
- What facts are true about what Owain did as a young man?
- He studied law in London. ✓
- He learned how to fight. ✓
- He was a soldier and went to Scotland to fight. ✓
- He travelled to France.
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- Where did Owain live after fighting in Scotland?
- Owain got married and lived in a big house in the Marches. ✓
- Owain got married and lived in a large castle in Scotland.
- Owain got married and moved to London to be a lawyer.
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- What was one of the reasons that Owain decided to fight against the English?
- Owain and the Welsh lords were fed up with the way the English ruled them. ✓
- Owain and the Welsh bards were fed up with the way the English ruled them.
- Owain and the Scottish lords were fed up with the way the English ruled them.
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Key learning points
- Owain Glyndwr was a Welshman who was born at a time when England controlled Wales.
- He was descended from the princes of a part of Wales.
- As a young man he travelled to London to study law and even fought in an English army.
- When he returned to Wales, he found that many people were unhappy with English rule.
- Owain Glyndwr decided to fight to try and make Wales free from English rule.
Common misconception
That life was the same 750 years ago as it is today.
Explain to children that lots of things were very different 750 years ago. For example, there were no cars, planes or trains and it would have taken Owain a long time to travel to Scotland and London. People would have travelled by horse or walked.
Keywords
Marches - the Marches is a place between Wales and England
Descended - when people are related by blood to older generations they are descended from them
Bard - a famous poet is called a bard
Lord - someone of importance who owned land was a lord
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