ridolfi plot

• who where the key figures involved in the ridolfi plot?

  Roberto Ridolfi an italian banker

  duke of norfolk
• when did the Ridolfi plot take place?

  1571
• what was the aim of the plot?

  The plan was for English Catholics to overthrow Elizabeth with help from Spain, for Mary to marry Norfolk and the country to be returned to Catholicism.
• how was the plot stopped?

  william cecil spies network found coded letters in a bag of gold coins and decoded them.
• what was the outcome of the plot?

  cipher key was discovered under Norfolk's house.

  Norfolk was executed on 2nd of June 1572
• what happended to Ridolfi?

  arrested and expelled from the country