Elizabethian

• What did Henry do when Anne Boleyn fell pregnant?

  He broke from Rome and become the Supreme head of the church of England
• How well did Elizabeth get to know her mother or father?

  She never knew her mother and she only met her father few times.
• Who was the greatest intellectual influence on Elizabeth?

  Roger Ascham
• What did Elizabeth learn?

  Italic style handwriting and many languages including: French, Italian,Spanish,Latin and Greek.
• Who acted as a mother figure to Elizabeth during her teenage years?

  Catherine Parr
• What did a 3rd Act of Succession do in 1544?

  It restored Elizabeth as an heir to the throne
• How did Thomas Seymour cause Elizabeth to be investigated?

  She lived in his household and there was a lot of flirting between the two. Seymour was investigated for treason and supposedly was trying to marry Elizabeth in order to over throw Edward
• What did Elizabeth learn from her experience with Thomas Seymour?

  Trust nobody
• Why did Mary I's accession make Elizabeth's position very difficult?

  Mary was catholic and angry about how Elizabeth's mother replaced her own mother as queen.
• What did Mary I's regime do to 300 Protestant heretics over 5 years?

  She burnt them
• Name three of Elizabeth's problems at her accession to the throne

  She was protestant, she was a woman, she was unmarried and had no children.
• What were the key features of the Royal Court?

  Run by Lord Chamberlain, no specific building, consisted of Elizabeth's household
• What happened on feast days?

  The Queen dined in the dining hall with all of her household
• What did Elizabeth use because she had to reduce the political nature of the Privy Chamber?

  Patronage
• What did the Privy Council do?

  Co-ordinated financial departments, law courts and regional bodies
• How was Elizabeth's Privy Council different to Mary's?

  She started with only 19 members, unlike Mary's 40 and did not appoint any strong catholics
• Who were the four key members of Elizabeth's Privy Council?

  Francis Walsingham, William Cecil, Christopher Hatton and Robert Dudley
• William Cecil was very powerful. What evidence shows this?

  He spoke his mind and often disagreed with Elizabeth but this madder trust him more and hence made him Chief minister
• Elizabeth cleverly played a game of 'd______ and r_____'

  Divide and Rule
• What did Elizabeth's first parliament do in 1559?

  Restoration of the royal supremacy over a protestant Church of England
• Why was Elizabeth more powerful than parliament?

  She was able to limit Parliament's power due to the royal veto
• Why did Elizabeth's government descend into crisis in the 1590s?

  All of Elizabeth's trusted councillors were dying
• Who said that ' to promote a woman to bear rule.. Is repugnant to nature, an insult to God'?

  John Knox
• What famous incident happened in 1566?

  Elizabeth lost her temper with parliament
• What were some disadvantages for Elizabeth if she married?

  She would not be able to use the Divide and rule in order to manipulate her men and it may cause jealousy
• Who did Elizabeth immediately turn down and why?

  Phillip II of Spain as he was married to Mary and treated her badly. He only wanted to marry Elizabeth in order to regain his title as king
• Why didn't Elizabeth marry Robert Dudley?

  His wife Amy "mysteriously" died and they thought it would look like a plot for murder if they married
• How do we know that Elizabeth was fond of the Duke of Alencon?

  She called him her frog and wrote him a poem 'On Monsieur's departure
• What happened in October 1562?

  Elizabeth contracted smallpox
• Which two families believed they would inherit the throne if Elizabeth died without any children?

  Stuarts and Suffolk
• Who emerged as the obvious heir in the 1590s?

  James VI
• Who arranged for an easy transition to James VI?

  Robert Cecil
• Why was 1603 an historic moment?

  Elizabeth died
• Why was Elizabeth a Protestant?

  Her education was influenced by Protestantism after the break from Rome
• How did Elizabeth demonstrate her Protestantism when she became Queen?

  She forbade priests from performing mass in royal chapels
• What did Elizabeth still like about the Catholic Church?

  Church decoration and music
• What did Elizabeth want to avoid (which had happened in Germany and France)?

  Divisions between Catholics and Protestants
• Where in England was Catholicism still strong?

  North and West country
• What did the Act of Supremacy in May 1559 do?

  Re-established the Break from Rome and made Elizabeth supreme Governor of the Church of England
• What did the Act of Uniformity in May 1559 do?

  Aimed to end quarrels between Protestants and catholics