Medieval England: the Reign of Edward I, 1272-1307 | AQA GCSE History (8145)

Medieval England: the Reign of Edward I, 1272-1307

103 questions
9 subtopics
Paper 2
Paper 2

Medieval England: The Reign of Edward I, 1272–1307 is examined in Paper 2, Shaping the nation.

It covers Henry III’s legacy, Development of government, rights and justice, trade, towns and villages, education and learning, the development of the legal system, medieval warfare, tactics and technology, the invasion and colonisation of Wales, relations with Scotland and the historic environment of Medieval England.

Sample questions from Medieval England: the Reign of Edward I, 1272-1307

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

Henry III’s legacy

Where was Edward when his father died, and when was he crowned?

Show the answer
He was returning from crusade in the eastern Mediterranean; he took his time coming home and was crowned at Westminster in August 1274.
Development of government, rights and justice

What did the second Statute of Westminster of 1285 do for landowning families?

Show the answer
Its clause on conditional gifts let an estate be tied to a family's heirs so that it could not be sold away, and it also tightened the law on debt.
Trade, towns and villages

What customs duty on wool was granted to the king in 1275?

Show the answer
Half a mark — six shillings and eightpence — on every sack exported, a grant that gave the crown a dependable income for the rest of the reign.
Education and learning

What did a university student study for his first degree?

Show the answer
The seven liberal arts — grammar, rhetoric and logic first, then arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music — before anyone could proceed to theology, law or medicine.
The development of the legal system

Which cases belonged to the Church courts?

Show the answer
Anything touching the clergy, marriage, wills or morals; a man who could read his neck verse claimed benefit of clergy and escaped the king's hangman.
Medieval warfare, tactics and technology

How could attackers bring down a wall without engines?

Show the answer
By tunnelling beneath it, propping the tunnel with timber and then setting the props alight so that the wall dropped into the hollow.
The invasion and colonisation of Wales

What did the Treaty of Aberconwy do to Llywelyn?

Show the answer
It left him his title but took away almost all his lands, penning him into Gwynedd west of the river Conwy.
Relations with Scotland

What did Edward do in 1296?

Show the answer
He stormed Berwick with terrible slaughter, beat the Scots at Dunbar, stripped John of his crown and carried the enthronement stone away from Scone to Westminster.

The 9 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
Henry III’s legacy	Edward's part in the civil war, the Provisions of Oxford, his return from crusade and coronation, the debts, the state of law and order, Llywelyn's defiance, his handling of the nobility, and his character.	10
Development of government, rights and justice	The Hundred Rolls, Robert Burnell, the two Statutes of Westminster, the Statute of Mortmain and the dead hand, the Quo Warranto inquiries and their settlement, why parliament was summoned, and the Model Parliament.	10
Trade, towns and villages	Farming and the open fields, the wool trade and the monasteries, what made a town, the wool custom and the maltolt, the Statute of Merchants, the Riccardi, the re-coinage, and the expulsion of the Jews.	10
Education and learning	Why the Church controlled learning, song and grammar schools, Oxford and Cambridge, the seven liberal arts, lectures and disputation, the first colleges, the friars, Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus.	10
The development of the legal system	Common law and statute law, the manor, hundred and shire courts, the general eyre and the Church courts, trial by jury and outlawry, the commonest crimes and their punishments, and Edward I's Statutes of Gloucester and Winchester.	10
Medieval warfare, tactics and technology	Why sieges outnumbered battles, blockade, the trebuchet and the Warwolf, mining under walls, rams, ladders and towers, the charge of the mounted knight and its cost, the longbow and massed archery, and a knight's armour.	10
The invasion and colonisation of Wales	Llywelyn's refusal, the campaign of 1277 and the Treaty of Aberconwy, Dafydd's revolt and the second war, the Statute of Rhuddlan, the iron ring of castles and their English towns, and the cost of conquest.	10
Relations with Scotland	Alexander III's death and the Maid of Norway, the Great Cause and Balliol, how Edward undermined King John, Berwick, Stirling Bridge, Falkirk and Wallace's death, Robert Bruce's rising and coronation in 1306, Edward's revenge, his death on the march north in 1307, and the Hammer of the Scots.	21
The historic environment of Medieval England	How to write about the site set for study: its location and surroundings, its function and how its use changed, its structure and materials, the people who built and used it, what its design reveals about beliefs and status, and how it links to the events of the period.	12

Medieval England: the Reign of Edward I, 1272-1307 is 103 of the 1,889 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £7

How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.