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Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his sisters out of the succession. His will was set aside, and in 1558 Elizabeth succeeded the Catholic Mary I, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. (Source.)
Queen Elizabeth established her own religion in England, declaring herself its head. Fines were inflicted upon those who did not attend her services, and severe measures were taken to supress the Catholic Church. Harboring a Catholic priest was punishable by death; a priest ordained oversees was condemmed as a traitor. St. Edmund Campion is a well-known example of one of these. (For more information on a Catholic perspective of this time period, read the autibiography of Father Gerard, "During the Persecution")

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Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Born 7 September 1533
Died 24 March 1603

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  • Cover of: By the Queene, a proclamation concernnig [sic] the souldiers appointed to serue in Her Maiesties seruice beyond the seas, vnder the charge of Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake

    First published in 1589 2 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1618 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene, a proclamation for the calling in and frustrating all commissions for the making of salt-peter granted forth before that to George Euelin and others, the 28. of Ianuary 1587: whereby many of Her Maiesties subiects were greatly abused, as also that all peter made by the said later commissions doe bring the same into Her Maiesties store, &c.

    First published in 1595 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the prices of vvines

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the prices of wine

    First published in 1580 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene, a proclamation of the Queenes Maiesties pardon graunted to certaine of her subiectes vppon the west borders, hauyng offended by Leonard Dacres abusyng of them, in a rebellion lately stirred by him

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  • Cover of: The effect of certaine branches of the statute made in anno xxxiii. Henr. viii. touching the maintenance of artyllery: and the punishment of such as vse vnlawfull games, very necessary to be put in execution.

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  • Cover of: Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ regina, fidei defensor, &c., serenissimo principi ac domino domino Rodolpho, Romanorum electo imperatori semper augusto ...: serenissime princeps, frater & consanguinee charissime, literæ serenitatis vestræ decimo quinto Iulij datæ, & illæ quidem germanicé conscriptæ ..

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  • Cover of: Iniunctions geuen by the Queenes Maiestie, anno Domini 1559, the fyrst yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth

    First published in 1572 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Iniunctions geuen by the Quenes Maiestie, anno Domini 1559, the fyrst yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Quene Elizabeth

    First published in 1561 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Proclamation for discovering authors of libels, 26 March 1576.

    First published in 1971 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Queene Elizabeths speech to her last Parliament [30. of November 1601]

    First published in 1628 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Elizabethan England and Europe: Forty unprinted letters from Elizabeth I to Protestant powers (Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research)

    First published in 1982 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The poems of Queen Elizabeth I.

    First published in 1964 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Sidney state papers, 1565-70

    First published in 1962 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The sayings of Queen Elizabeth

    First published in 1923 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her privie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advise set downe ... by the best learned in physicke ... contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines

    First published in 1593 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: History's Greatest Speeches: The Complete Collection

    First published in 2021 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI. of Scotland; Some of Them Printed from Originals in the Possession of the Rev. Edward Ryder, and Others from a Ms. Which Formerly Belonged to Sir Peter Thompson, Kt

    First published in 2018 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Additional Sidney state papers 1566-70

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Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Born 7 September 1533
Died 24 March 1603
Subjects
Early works to 1800, Proclamations, History, Sources, Law and legislation, Plague, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Church of England, Terms of court, Prices, Queens, Correspondence, Ecclesiastical law, Government, Pirates, Jesuits, Prohibited books, Rogues and vagabonds, Sedition, Commerce, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, Grain trade, Kings and rulers, Soldiers
Places
England, Great Britain, London, Spain, Netherlands, Scotland, France, Ireland, Engalnd, Hastings (England), Bath (England), Bordeaux, Bordelais, Cornwall (England : County), Devon (England), Early works to 1800, England) Lyme Regis (Dorset, England) Redesdale (Northumberland, England) St. Ives (Cornwall, England) Tynedale (Northumberland, Europe, Hansa towns, London (England), Lyme Regis (Dorset, England), Lyme Regis (England)
People
Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Henry Sidney Sir (1529-1586), James I King of England (1566-1625), Elizabeth Queen of England (b.1533), Gregory Pormorte, H. F. Evans, Henry Sidney Sir, John Stubbes (1543-1591), Leonard Dacre (d. 1573), Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Philip II King of Spain (1527-1598), Thomas Cobham, Thomas Percy Northumberland 7th Earl of (1528-1572), Walter Raleigh Sir (1552?-1618)
Time
Elizabeth, 1558-1603, 1558-1603, 16th century, 1485-1603, 17th century, James VI, 1567-1625, Tudors, 1485-1603, 1556-1598, 1603-1714, 1642-1649, Charles IX, 1560-1574, Elective monarchy, 1572-1763, Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, Elizabrth, 1558-1603, HenryIV, 1589-1610, Mary Stuart, 1542-1567, Philip II, 1556-1598, Rebellion of 1569, Sigismund II Augustus, 1548-1572

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Alternative names

  • The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Queen Elizabeth I
  • Elizabeth I Queen of England
  • England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I).
  • Elizabeth I
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • Elizabeth 1 Queen of England
  • Elizabeth Queen of England
  • Elizabeth 1, Queen of England
  • Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
  • Queen of England 1533-1603 Elizabeth I
  • Queen of England 1533-1 Elizabeth I

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May 29, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import