Unit 2

• The Ridolfi Plot was in 1571
• The Throckmorton Plot was in 1583
• The Babington plot was in 1586
• The Revolt of the Northern Earls was in 1569-1570
• Mary Queen of Scots was executed in 1587 after the Babington plot
• Year of the Revolt of the Northern Earls

  1569
• Year of the Ridolfi Plot


  1571
• Year of The Throckmorton Plot


  1583
• Year of the Babington Plot


  1586
• Year Mary Queen of Scots was executed


  1587
• Religious reason the Northern Earls Revolted

  Wanted Catholicism restored in England
• Political reason the Northern Earls revolted

  They had lost a lot of their influence at court when Elizabeth became queen
• The key people in the Revolt of the Northern Earls

  Thomas Percy

  Charles Neville

  Thomas Howard

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Jane Neville

  Ann Percy
• The events of the Revolt of the Northern Earls

  Marched to Durham Cathedral and carried out a Catholic service
• Papal Bull


  A written order issued by the Pope
• Reason Thomas Percy the Earl of Northumberland was executed


  For his part in the Revolt of the Northern Earls
• Why the Pope issued a papal bull in 1570 after the Revolt of the Northern Earls


  To excommunicate Elizabeth (throw out of the church) and call on all Catholics to start another rebellion
• The aim of the Ridolfi Plot, 1571

  For Mary, Queen of Scots to marry the Duke of Norfolk
• Ridolfi discussed the plot with these men

  Phillip II

  The Duke of Alba

  The Pope
• After the Ridolfi plot this man was executed

  Duke of Norfolk
• After the Ridolfi plot this man disappeared

  Ridolfi
• This man uncovered the Ridolfi Plot

  Sir William Cecil
• The Ridolfi plot was significant because it...

  Showed that Mary and Catholics were a threat at home (England) and abroad
• Priest holes


  Where priests were hidden after being smuggled into the country after 1574
• The aim of the Throckmorton Plot, 1583

  For the French Duke of Guise to invade England, free Mary, overthrow Elizabeth and restore Catholicism
• This man uncovered the Throckmorton Plot, 1583


  Sir Francis Walshingham
• After the Throckmorton Plot this man was executed

  Throckmorton
• The significance of the Throckmorton Plot


  Life became harder for Catholics and they were treated with suspicion.
• The aim of the Babington Plot, 1586


  To murder Elizabeth

  Encourage English Catholics to rebel
• These men supported the Babington plot

  Phillip II

  The Pope

  Duke of Guise
• This man uncovered the Babington Plot, 1586


  Sir Francis Walshingham
• These people were executed for their part in the Babington Plot, 1586


  Babington and his accomplices

  Mary, Queen of Scots
• The significance of the Babington Plot, 1586


  Elizabeth became determined to crush Catholicism

  Mary's execution ended any hope of replacing Elizabeth with a Catholic queen
• The year Mary, Queen of Scots was executed


  1587
• Reasons why Mary was executed

  Mary was a threat to England especially if Spain invaded

  Her part in the plots
• A positive consequence of executing Mary


  Removed a serious threat to Elizabeth
• A negative consequence of executing Mary


  Gave Phillip II a reason to invade. Mary had given Phillip II her claim to the English throne after her death
• After the Revolt of the Northern Earls Mary was moved south to this city

  Coventry
• England went to war with Spain in 1585