Louis VIII was briefly a disputed claimant to the throne during the First Baron's War, and at one point controlled over half of England. However, after the death of John, the rebel barons ditched Louis in favour of John's son, Henry III. They paid Louis 10,000 marks, and, in return, Louis renounced his claim to the English throne and agreed not to attack England again.
I think you need to allow alternative spellings, and to give the answer as correct if only part of the name is given e.g. 'Alfred'. I don't think you can count the Cromwells as monarchs
I enjoyed this but it really needs a lot more leeway with the Saxon spellings, as there were so many variants (Eadmund/Edmund, Eadwig/Edwy etc. etc.) - and the nicknames for the early ones probably need to be looser, as many of them had several, or variants on the same one (I've never heard of Eadgar "the peaceful" outside Wikipedia - traditionally he's "the peaceable").
Criticise, criticise, sorry! Like I say I enjoyed it.
Agree. And it would be helpful if you could specify at the top of the quiz that you're looking for numbers and/or titles as well as names, as most quizzes on jetbunk just ask for names. Which, by the way, I prefer! The numbers and titles, that is. Nice quiz idea, would be great to see it better worked out
Criticise, criticise, sorry! Like I say I enjoyed it.