Elizabethan Rule
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- Created on: 04-12-18 10:32
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- Elizabethan Rule
- Threats to Her Reign
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Her foreign marriage, death of both her husbands and suspicions in her second husband's assassination made Mary an unfavourable figure to Elizabeth's rule.
- Her gender
- Being female, Elizabeth faced a lot of ignorant, sexist views and comments from her fellow Parliament members and citizens.
- Hereditary Issues
- Elizabeth was considered an illegitimate child of Henry VIII, because he had divorced his first wife to marry her mother.
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Rebellions
- Essex
- Rebelled due to issues with his Uncle being sent to Ireland to fight. He failed, and was executed in 1601.
- Essex
- Methods of avoiding issues
- Immediate Punishments
- Criminals who went against the Queen were swiftly and mercilessly executed for their crimes.
- Diverse Parliament
- Elizabeth made sure her Parliament was varied and fair for all views to be represented.
- Immediate Punishments
- Threats to Her Reign
- Religion
- Being Protestant, the Catholic people in her country often viewed Elizabeth with suspicion and distrust/
- Threats to Her Reign
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Her foreign marriage, death of both her husbands and suspicions in her second husband's assassination made Mary an unfavourable figure to Elizabeth's rule.
- Her gender
- Being female, Elizabeth faced a lot of ignorant, sexist views and comments from her fellow Parliament members and citizens.
- Hereditary Issues
- Elizabeth was considered an illegitimate child of Henry VIII, because he had divorced his first wife to marry her mother.
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Northern
- Previously powerful Dukes rebelled after losing power. They failed, and most were executed in November, 1569.
- Rebellions
- Essex
- Rebelled due to issues with his Uncle being sent to Ireland to fight. He failed, and was executed in 1601.
- Essex
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