Mary I: Foreign Policy

• 1554: Marriage of Mary and Philip II

  Election of Anti-Spanish Pope Paul IV
• 1555: Philip left England, Charles V abdicated
• 1556: Alliance between France and the Papacy, reopened the Habsburg-Valois War
• 1557: English troops sent to the Netherlands

  Philip II returns to Spain

  French Troops under Stafford arrive in Scarborough

  War with France declared

  Raids on Scottish border dealt with

  Spanish Victory at Siege of St Quentin with help of 5,000 English troops, but Spain too exhausted
• 1558: 27,000 French troops seize calais from 2,000 English

  Mary dies in November