Queen elizabeth the 1st biography of donald
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Elizabeth I – a pioneering genius, or murderous evil monarch?
Elizabeth was not always a great leader. During battle with the Spanish Armada, she promised to reward her soldiers for their loyalty. She did not keep that promise. When a group of soldiers came to London to request the payment they were promised, she instead had them killed. Add to that, conditions on board her ships were so terrible that thousands of soldiers died in a resulting typhus outbreak than died in the battle itself. Says Russell, “Not only did she underpay her soldiers, she didn’t take care of them, so more ended up dying from lack of care…than in the battle itself.”
An awful lot of people died because they annoyed her.
Against: She had people tortured for their religion
When it came to religion, Elizabeth, a protestant, severely punished those with different beliefs. “We know she burned Catholics at the stake,” says Russell, “but she also oppressed Puritans,
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Early Years
On September 7, 1533, Elizabeth historisk period was born a disappointment to all. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, had retired to Greenwich Palace to give birth, confident in her future as the mother of England’s next king. Her optimistic father, Henry VIII, had shrugged off papal authority and become Supreme Head of a national church in large part because he wanted a legitimate male heir. The Catholic supporters of Henry’s popular, but now discarded, first wife, Catherine of Aragon, saw the punishing hand of God in the ankomst of another royal bastard; Protestant reformers joined the royal parents in hoping that the next child would be a healthy boy who would solidify the dynasty and new Church of England.
Named for her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth spent her early years away from her parents in a separate household shared with her elder half-sister, Mary Tudor. beneath the tutelage of the humanist scholar Roger Ascham, Elizabeth read philosophy and theology and learned Lat
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Queen Elizabeth I
(1533-1603)
Who Was Queen Elizabeth I?
Queen Elizabeth I claimed the throne in 1558 at the age of 25 and held it until her death 44 years later. Elizabeth I was born a princess but declared illegitimate through political machinations. Eventually, upon her half-sister Mary Tudor’s death, she took the crown.
During her reign, Elizabeth I established Protestantism in England; defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588; maintained peace inside her previously divided country; and created an environment where the arts flourished. She was sometimes called the "Virgin Queen", as she never married.
Queen Elizabeth I’s Father and Mother
Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She was only 2 years old when her mother was beheaded on the orders of her father, based on questionable charges of adultery and conspiracy.
The Hampden Portrait, Queen Elizabeth I, circa 1563.
Early Life and Education
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