Elizabethan

• Timeline of elizabeth 1558 - 1603
• Daughter of Henry 8th and anne boleyn
• Court was a group of advisors , officials, ladies in waiting, and nobles whom lived with Eliz
• A progress was a journey made to travel the country which allowed E to demonstrate power
• Patrinage was the system where powerful roles were given to court in exchange for their loyalty
• Elizabeths problems:

  religion

  illegitimacy

  MQOS

  exoerience and position

  foreign affairs
• Head of CofE


  1558-1603
• the Pope didn't permit Henry VII's divorce so he broke from rome
• Henry broke from the church

  To marry Anne Boleyn
• Anne Boleyn was pregnant before marriage, Henry was still married to Catherine of Aragon
• Elizabeth was considered a 'usurper' (Stole her position) by Catholics
• Rulers of England


  • Henry VIII - Catholic
  • Edward VI - Protestant
  • Mary Tudor I - Catholic
  • Elizabeth I - Protestant
• Martin Luther's 95 thesis led to the Reformation and Examination
• Mary Tudor I locked up Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth I was Head of the Church of England 1568-1603
• 'Foxe's book of Martyrs' documented Protestant persecution under Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth I's upbringing


  • Very sheltered during Henry 7's and Edwards reigns, so was unprepared
  • Isolated and imprisoned in The Tower by Mary(bloody)
• Most of Europe was Roman Catholic during Elizabeth I's reign
• England was sandwiched between enemy alliances


  This caused foreign affairs problems for Elizabeth I
• Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth I's cousin, her grandma was Henry 8's sister, Margaret
• Pope Pius accused Elizabeth I of being an usurper
• Lord Burghley


  WILLIAM CECIL, Chief Secretary of State, 40 yrs experience, moderate potent, lord treasurer
• Robert Dudley


  Earl of Leicester, Son of the Duke of Northumberland, 'my eyes', puritan, challenged Cecil, gentry & nobility, married E's cousin Lettice Knollys, appointed 1562
• Francis Walsingham


  Spy detective, multilingual, foreign affairs, disagreed with Cecil, 'my more', challenged E, hated jesuits, Parliament 1571-72
• Christopher Hatton


  Lord Chancellor, dancer, music legs, attractive, hated Puritans
• Robert Devereux


  Earl of Essex, lord deputy of Ireland, 'sweet robin', Catholic sympathiser, E's boy toy, hated Cecil, Dudley's stepson, 1601 rebellion - executed for treason, young, gigolo, arrogant, angry