Topic 2: Challenges to Elizabeth at home, abroad 1569-88

• What was the Babington Plot 1586?

  Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.
• What was the Throckmorton Plot 1583?

  Was Spain and the Popes second attempt to seize England.
• What was the Ridolfi Plot 1571?

  Assassination.
• What was the revolt of the northern earls 1569?

  Elizabeth had seized territory from Thomas Percy.
• Reasons for poor relations with Spain:

  • king Felipe
  • catholicism and catholic English plots
  • support of the Duke of Anjou in the Netherlands
  • English privateers
  • 1568 plunder
• What was the Spanish Armada?

  Fleet of warships