Elizabeth - Foreign Policy Flashcards
(20 cards)
Who offered to marry Elizabeth in 1559?
Phillip II of Spain
What was the Treaty of Câteau-Cambrésis, 1559 about Calais?
France would retain Calais for eight years, after which time Calais would be restored to English control provided England had kept the peace in the meantime. If France failed to return Calais, they agreed to pay 500,000 crowns (£125,000) to England.
What year and month was the Treaty of Edinburgh?
July 1560
What did Elizabeth promise to loan to the Huguenot leader in 1562?
6000 men and a loan of £30,000, with control of the port of Le Havre as security.
What did Elizabeth lose in the Treaty of Troyes in 1564?
Calais.
Name the anti-Spanish alliance Elizabeth signed with France in 1572.
The Treaty of Blois
Which ports did most of English trade of cloth go through?
Netherlands, such as Antwerp
Whose trading activity in the 1560s attempted to break the Spanish monopoly in the Caribbean?
John Hawkins
Who did Elizabeth expel from English ports in 1572 causing riots in the Netherlands?
Sea Beggers
The signing of which Treaty caused the signing of the Treaty of Nonsuch 1585?
Treaty of Joinville between Phillip II and the Catholic League in France (Guise family) 1584
What title did Elizabeth receive from the Treaty of Nonsuch?
Protector of the Netherlands
Give 1 reason why the Spanish Armada was defeated.
Distance needed to be travelled, lack of communication between the Spanish ships, geographical issues in Dutch ports and bad weather/wind into the Channel, fleet under provisioned and poorly led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, Phillip’s misguided hopes, English naval tactics such as fireships.
Name one example of failed English action against Spain between 1589-1590s.
Sending Drake to Portugal in 1589 to throw out the Spaniards, continued attacks on Spanish bullion ships, though with decreasing success, as the Spanish had developed a convoy system, 1591 Sir Richard Grenville in Revenge was surrounded by a Spanish fleet and Grenville and most of his men were killed.
By what year had the Spanish been expelled from the Northern Netherlands?
1594
Who led the Irish rebellion against Elizabeth between 1598-1603?
Hugh O’Neil, Earl of Tyrone.
When was the Battle of the Yellow Ford?
August 1598
Who was defeated at Kinsale in 1602?
Spanish relief force.
Where did the Earl of Essex attempt to seize in Feb 1601?
Places in London such as the palace at Whitehall and the Tower of London.
Who did Essex want to remove from power?
The Cecil family
Who did Elizabeth confirm with a sign as her successor before her death?
James VI of Scotland
