Game 3, Round 2 (History) -- Early French history

 

1. In 732 a famous battle was fought in which Frankish and Burgundian troops defeated 
Muslim forces from Spain. Name the battle or the French military leader. 

    Battle of Tours (or Battle of Poitiers) 
    Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) 

2. Who was the King of the Franks from 768 to 814? 

    Charlemagne (Charles the Great) 

3. Which dynasty of French Kings began with Hugh in 987 and continued 
until the death of Charles IV in 1328? 

    Capetian 

4. In 1115 a French monk became abbot of a monastery that was to become 
highly influential in a reformist order that had split from the Benedictines. 
Name this monk or the order that he helped to build. 

    (St.) Bernard (of Clairvaux); Cistercian order 

5. Starting in 1208 the Catholic church brought a crusade against which group, 
which it accused of heresy? 

    Cathars (accept Albigensians) 

6. Which French legislative assembly was first called in 1302 by Philip IV, 
consisting of a council of nobles that he hoped would assist him in a dispute with the Pope? 

    Estates-General (or States-General) 

7. Some of Philip's machinations must have succeeded, since a few years later his 
supporter Clement V became Pope, and the papacy moved--to which French city? 

    Avignon 

8. Philip V became king in 1316. His succession was secured by the invocation 
of what body of law, which, among other less controversial measures, dictated 
that the heir to the throne must be male? 

    Salic Law 

9. Within 10 years on either side, when did the 100 Years' War 
(which actually lasted 116 years) end? 

    1453 (accept 1443-1463) 


10. Joan of Arc became a French heroine for being instrumental in lifting the 
English siege of what city, in 1429? 

    Orléans