elizabeth: plots
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- elizabeth: plots
- throckmorten plot: 1583
- key aims: duke of guise (marys cousin) plotted to invade england and overthrow elizabeth, free mary and make england catholic again.
- phillip ll offered to pay for the revolt, pope approved of the conspiricy.
- failiure of the plot: walsingham uncovered the plot in may 1583.
- throckmorten was arrested and tortured, confessed to his involvment, executed in may 1584
- significance: revealved extent of catholic threat, posed by forien catholic powers. papers included catholic sympathisers, conforming gov. fears of 'enemy within'.
- ridolfi plot: 1571
- conducted by robert ridolfi, duke of norfolk, mary queen of scots, phillip ll
- main aims: murder elizabeth, start a spanish invasion, put mary on the throne, mary woulld then marry duke of norfolk
- phillip instructed the duke of alba to prepare 10000 troops.
- william cecil discovered the plot, by autunm 1571norfolk was executed for high treason.
- significance: reenforced spanish treat and threat of mary. england knew that it had to build anglo french relations.ctholics were monitered more closey.
- plots against Elizabeth were ultimately based on religon.
- plots were often provoked by the religous settlement.
- similarities: conducted by catholic rebels, mary queen of scots, spanish involvement (and the pope)
- key involvement: mary queen of scots, Phillip ll, the pope.
- Babington polt: 1586
- phillip and the pope supported the plot.
- main aims: duke of guise invade england, murder Elizabeth and put mary on the throne
- walsingham intercepted letters to mary, demonstrated her clear involvment
- babington and the plotters were later executed
- october 1586: mary was sentenced to death for her part in the plot. her death warrent was sighned in feb. 1587.
- significance: her situation was more precarious.by 1585 england and spain were at war. percecution of catholics intensified. led to the execution of mary.
- throckmorten plot: 1583
- Babington polt: 1586
- phillip and the pope supported the plot.
- main aims: duke of guise invade england, murder Elizabeth and put mary on the throne
- walsingham intercepted letters to mary, demonstrated her clear involvment
- babington and the plotters were later executed
- october 1586: mary was sentenced to death for her part in the plot. her death warrent was sighned in feb. 1587.
- significance: her situation was more precarious.by 1585 england and spain were at war. percecution of catholics intensified. led to the execution of mary.
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