Bessy Flashcards
(30 cards)
Mary I
Strong catholic
Plots against bess
No children
Hated protestitasim
Edward VI
King at 9
Made Lady jane grey queen for 9 days
Died at 15
Comming to power
Thanked the lord for marys death
Very religious
Excellent student
Declared illegitimate by henry but soon changed
The royal court
Mobile operation
Located to where the Queen was
Made up of 500 nobles, advisers, officials and servants
Was the centre of politics
Impression of power
Progresses
Most summer is Elizabeth, with travel with her court on tours, visiting times of nobility
Lived in luxury at the expense of others
patronage
Elizabeth show favouritism
Gave more important jobs
Created an intense rivalry and competition
Everyone stayed loyal
The privy council
Coordinated finances help to govern the country
Issued orders to local government Members from nobility and gentry
Gave advice
Made politics balanced
Parliament
Manily met so she could get money
Problems she faced
Old
Not married
No heir to the throne
Protestant
Woman
Earl of essex
marched through London
Bishops men shoot people who worked for him
People hid as he retreated
Went to his home and fortified it
Burns evidence, but gets caught
Executed
Catholic
pope is Jesus’s sub
mass is really important.
Bible is in Latin.
Very beautiful churches
Confession
Bible isn’t the be all and end all
you have to be a good person to go to heaven
Protestant
no one is as powerful as Jesus
Mass is just a symbol
bible in English
Plain churches
Only God can forgive you
Bible is super important
If you believe in God, you can go to heaven
Puritan
An extreme protestant
Act of supremacy
Ended the involvement of Roman English religion
She tried to please, the Catholics
act of uniformity
To make it clear what the anglican church believed in
The church created was Protestant
Life for the poor
seven or eight people in a small cottage
Cottage would be one large room, basic, and a permanent fire
No candles
No marriage
Work on farms
Different types if poor
Labourer yeoman, husband,
John hawkins
made three voyages
Make lots of money
Fought the Spanish on his last voyage
First slave trader
Eventually designed new ships
Francis Drake
Became an explorer
Stole lots from the Spanish as they hated him
His next voyage was supported by Elizabeth
Knighted and became an MP
Crucial role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Walter Raleigh
favourite of Elizabeth
Bought tobacco in potato to England
Knighted and became an MP
Northern rebellion
two of Elizabeth’s northern earls the Earl of Westmorland, and the Earl of Northumberland had a catholic rebellion against the Queen. They lacked support of the majority of the English Catholics and the plot failed.
The ridolfi plot
Ridolfi was a Catholic Italian banker who lived in London, the bottom of Mary Queen of Scots, the pope. Philip, the second of Spain, and the Duke of Norfolk. The plan was to restore Catholicism in England by assassinating Elizabeth, and putting Mary Queen of Scots on the throne, Lizabeth spy network, uncovered a plot in Norfolk was executed.
The Throckmorton plot
A plan was hatched for a French Catholic forces backed by the Spanish and papa money to invade England. This involved Elizabeth being murdered and replaced by Mary Queen of Scots during a Catholic uprising, Walsingham, Elizabeth spy, master, discovered what was happening and and arrested Francis Throckmorton, who was a go-between for Mary and the Spanish
The Babington plot
This was another plot, involving Mary Queen of Scots Mary in the French ambassador, Sir Anthony Babington, who was Catholic had been recruited by the jesuit priests and was uncovered by Walsingham and Babington was arrested and executed for treason, Mary Queen of Scots, was put on trial and executed
