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| | Elizabeth I of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Elizabeth's arms were the same as those used by Henry IV: Quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lys Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England). | | | This, together with economic conflict with Spain and English piracy against Spanish colonies (which included an English alliance with Islamic Morocco), led to the outbreak of the Anglo-Spanish War in 1585 and in 1586 the Spanish ambassador was expelled from England for his participation in conspiracies against Elizabeth. | | | The graphic novel Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman is set near the end of Elizabeth's reign. |
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| | Queen Elizabeth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Elizabeth of York (1465–1503), queen consort of England: daughter of Edward IV of England; wife of Henry VII of England; mother of Henry VIII of England. | | | Elisabeth of France (1602–1644), queen consort of Spain: daughter of Henry IV of France; wife of Philip IV of Spain. | | | Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2, two ocean liners of the Cunard Steamship Company. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth
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| | webGED: The Bement Family Data Page |
| | A Popular Queen Elizabeth's domination of the period to which her name became attached was due in part to the exuberant national spirit that she inspired and that characterized all England during the second half of the 16th century. | | | When Edward died, Elizabeth became a partisan of her sister Mary, refusing to support the revolt led by the English soldier and conspirator Sir Thomas Wyatts, Mary, a devout Roman Catholic, was made uneasy by the Protestantism of Elizabeth and her potential menace as an heir to the throne. | | | Elizabeth's statecraft was due, to a great extent, to her choice of able and wise advisers, most notably Sir Francis Walsingham and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. |
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| | Elizabeth I of England - encyclopedia article about Elizabeth I of England. |
| | Elizabeth was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England by his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Marchioness of Pembroke, whom he secretly married sometime between the winter of 1532 and late January of 1533. | | | Elizabeth Tudor Elizabeth Tudor (July 2, 1492 – September 14, 1495) was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. | | | Elizabeth's arms were the same as those used by Henry IV: Quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lys Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England). |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Elizabeth+I+of+England
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| | Queen Elizabeth I: Biography |
| | The plan involved the murder of Elizabeth and an invasion of England by Spanish troops. | | | Elizabeth, with the help of her chief minister, William Cecil, set about making England a Protestant nation. | | | When Elizabeth died in March, 1603, the Tudor dynasty came to an end and the throne was passed to James VI of Scotland. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUDelizabeth1.htm
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| | Elizabeth's reign, although it faced some troubles at the beginning, brought about much growth and prosperity in England. | | | As a result, in November of 1558, Elizabeth became Elizabeth I, Queen of England. | | | Mary, unlike Henry VIII, Edward, and Elizabeth, was Catholic, the religion of England prior to Henry's creation of the Church of England and the installment of Protestantism in England. |
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http://www.alassea.net/fl/elizabeth
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| | Elizabeth I, queen of England |
| | Elizabeth I, queen of England: Bibliography - Bibliography See biographies by T. Maynard (1940), E. Jenkins (1958), P. Johnson (1974), and A. Elizabeth I, queen of England: Early Life - Early Life The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was declared illegitimate just before... | | | (Queen Elizabeth II of England; excerpt from Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty) (People Weekly) | | | Elizabeth I, queen of England: Reign - Reign When Elizabeth succeeded her sister to the throne in 1558, religious strife, a huge... |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0817111.html
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| | Queen Elizabeth I of England |
| | Faced with a country that was reeling from religious differences, Elizabeth once again made the Church of England the official religion, although retaining some Roman Catholic traditions in the church by issuing the 39 Articles of 1563, which was designed to prevent the country from further turmoil. | | | Plowden thoroughly describes Marys assassination plots of Elizabeth as well as Marys suspected role of the killing of her second husband, Lord Darnley, with the Earl of Bothwell as an accomplice, that ultimately caused a revolt and sent Mary in exile to England protected by Elizabeth. | | | She was forced to leave Scotland and sought the protection of Elizabeth in England. |
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http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/elizabeth.html
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| | Queen Elizabeth I: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources |
| | Elizabeth was concerned that her imprisonment in the countryside would remove her too much from the public eye and her ceaseless letter-writing was an attempt to reassert her position as princess of England. | | | No one believed Elizabeth to be more than the illegitimate daughter of the king. | | | Elizabeth kept the curtains of the litter pulled back as she entered the city, and the citizens were able to see her pale, frightened face. |
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http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz1.html
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I of England: Selected Writing and Speeches |
| | Five years later, Mary died, and so in 1558, twenty-five year old Elizabeth became Queen of England. | | | Elizabeth had dozens of suitors during her life, none so ardent as King Erik of Sweden, who had proposed to her when she was only the "Lady Elizabeth." In 1560, he tried to come to England, but was thwarted by storms, so he sent his brother as a proxy groom. | | | The quarrel between the Queen of England and the King of Spain was affecting the King of Poland's merchants, disrupting his trade routes and violating the law of nature and of nations. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.html
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| | Elizabeth I, queen of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Elizabeth engaged in a long series of diplomatic maneuvers against England& old enemy, France, and the new enemy, Spain, but for 30 years she managed to keep the country at peace. | | | When Elizabeth succeeded her sister to the throne in 1558, religious strife, a huge government debt, and failures in the war with France had brought England& fortunes to a low ebb. | | | One of Elizabeth’s first acts was to reestablish Protestantism (see England, Church of) through the acts of Supremacy and Uniformity (1559). |
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| | Queen Elizabeth I |
| | Elizabeth was also in danger because other people wanted to rule England. | | | When Elizabeth I was Queen of England, women could not own land or vote. | | | In 1588, the King of Spain sent a bunch of ships called the Spanish Armada, to take over England. |
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http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/elizabet.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire |
| | I do have a comment on history content, in response to one of other reviews I read -let's keep in mind that, if it wasn't for Elizabeth I there would be no empire to pass along to James I-England would be swallowed up by either France or Spain. | | | One example not given is how Elizabeth signed the death warrant for her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and the repudiated it as soon as she was executed. | | | There is a point about avoiding playing favorites illustrated with Elizabeth having to execute her erstwhile favorite the earl of essex and how she learned the error of her ways and never did it again. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735201897?v=glance
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| | Elizabeth (1998) |
| | Plot Outline: A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. | | | It's clear that England is in a pretty gloomy state and ruled by a humourless zealot, Mary (the ubiquitous Kathy Burke), who is hell-bent on converting or murdering Elizabeth: "My sister was born a whore of that Ann Boleyn." | | | Goofs: Continuity: After the unsuccessful assassination attempt, when Elizabeth is being tended by her ladies, she is shown standing, yet the very next shot has her sitting. |
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| | Queen Elizabeth I Queen of England |
| | Elizabeth became Queen of England in 1558 and reigned until her death in 1603. | | | Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace, London, England, an estate of her Father, King Henry VIII. | | | Elizabeth succeeded in furthering England's interests in the face of foreign threats and religious unrest at home. |
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| | Elizabeth I |
| | During Elizabeth's colorful 45 year reign, England became the leading Protestant power and established her basis as a colonial power. | | | Following Mary, Queen of Scots' flight to England and imprisonment, Elizabeth became a target of successive conspiracies by English Catholics. | | | On Mary's death Elizabeth became Queen of England (1558 - 1603). |
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http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/elizabeth.html
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| | Queen Elizabeth I of England |
| | Keywords: Queen Elizabeth I of England, history, Elizabethan period, Elizabeth I, England | | | Queen Elizabeth I Successor--King James I of England | | | Elizabeth I (her works, quotes, biography, essays and articles.) |
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| | Queen Elizabeth I Queen of England |
| | Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace, London, England, an estate of her Father, King Henry VIII. | | | Elizabeth became Queen of England in 1558 and reigned until her death in 1603. | | | You not only see Elizabeth I as the woman who turned around the fortunes of a nation, but also how to apply many of her traits and practices to your own business life. |
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| | The engagement was greeted in England by a formidable rebellion under the leadership of Sir Thomas Wyatt to depose Mary and put her half sister, Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I, on the throne. | | | Four days afterward, in spite of the entreaties of her best friends, Mary crossed Solway Firth and sought refuge at the court of Elizabeth I, queen of England, only to find herself a prisoner of Elizabeth for life. | | | Of the ensuing intrigues to effect her deliverance and to place her on the throne of England, the most famous was that of Mary's page, Anthony Babington, who plotted to assassinate Elizabeth. |
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| | About Elizabeth I TUDOR (Queen of England) |
| | Elizabeth I was crowned by Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle, because the more senior prelates did not recognise her as the Sovereign, and, apart from the archbishopric of Canterbury, no less than eight sees were vacant. | | | When Elizabeth was four, her Governess Lady Margaret Bryan transfered to the household of the newly born Prince Edward, and the little girl passed into the care of Catherine Champernowne, the daughter of a solidly respectable gentlefolk from Devonshire who had received an unnusually advanced education for a woman at thet time. | | | Elizabeth may or may not responded, but for the sake of the peaceful transition of power, it was declared that she had gestured for James VI of Scotland to succeed her. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Elizabeth I |
| | Under Elizabeth, England again broke with the pope, Catholic services were forbidden, priests were allowed to marry, and relics and decorations were removed from the churches. | | | Elizabeth firmly established Protestantism in England, encouraged English enterprise and commerce, and defended the nation against the powerful Spanish naval force known as the Spanish Armada. | | | Elizabeth’s reign was marked by her effective use of Parliament and the Privy Council, a small advisory body of the important state officials, and by the development of legal institutions in the English counties. |
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| | Amazon.com: Elizabeth R (6pc) (1995) : Video |
| | Glenda Jackson reigns supreme in the role of Elizabeth I. While the production values are not high, that is because these plays were part of a televised series for which there were budgetary constraints. | | | She begins the series playing Elizabeth as the young woman who would be queen, waiting upon the whims of her sister, the Queen Mary, and trying to survive the political intrigues and plots which surround her and threaten her very existence. | | | Elizabeth R (and for those not in the know, the "R" is for "Regina") is a splendid melding of history and entertainment, and as thorough as this series is, you will still long for more. |
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| | Elizabeth |
| | The man charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart was kicked out of his mental competency trial Friday after he began... | | | Elizabeth Edwards is recovering from surgery performed Monday in Boston to remove a cancerous breast tumor first diagnosed while her husband, former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, was campaigning as John Kerry's running mate. | | | AP - Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, is making progress in her treatment for breast cancer, the family says. |
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| | Elizabeth I and Tudor England |
| | Under Elizabeth the Church of England was officially established (1563) with Protestant dogma, but a liturgy, rites, and church organization which were essentially Catholic in form.There were many non-conforming Protestant sects at this time, most of which were tolerated under Elizabeth's policies. | | | Elizabeth might have been able to overlook that, but Mary had the gift of indiscretion, and was discovered once too often corresponding with Elizabeth's enemies. | | | The trouble was that Mary became the centre of numerous Catholic plots to regain power in England. |
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| | The Reader's Advisor |
| | Over the next 40 years, Elizabeth astutely fended off foreign invasion, a flood of suitors, and the intriguing of her ministers, while England went through a period of economic stability, artistic growth, and saw its rise to prominence as a naval power. | | | Elizabeth survives the harsh reign of her half-sister, Mary, to sit on the throne of England. | | | Elizabeth is less than pleased to find that her rival for the affections of Robert Dudley is her own cousin, Lettice Knollys. |
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| | Elizabeth I |
| | Elizabeth I was queen of England from 1558 until 1603. | | | This action helped to make the Church of England to gain popularity without causing a war with the Roman Catholic nations. | | | This time period is often referred to as the Elizabethan Age. |
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| | Elizabeth of Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Part of the intent of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was to put the nine year old Elizabeth onto the throne of England (and, presumably, Scotland) as a Catholic monarch, after assassinating her father and the Protestant English aristocracy. | | | At the time of Elizabeth's birth, her father was still king of Scotland only; a few years later, he succeeded Elizabeth I as ruler of England, Ireland and Wales also, making his daughter an even more attractive bride. | | | In WG Sebald's novel Vertigo (1990), a woman appears whom the narrator, travelling through Heidelberg by train in 1987, recognizes instantly "without a shadow of a doubt" as Elizabeth when she enters his carriage. |
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| | Elizabeth I of England - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England on January 15, 1559 in Westminster Abbey. | | | Following Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth was cared for by Henry's last queen, Catherine Parr, and her new husband, Thomas Seymour (brother of Jane Seymour and uncle to the new king, Edward VI of England). | | | There were several possible successors, and Elizabeth did not particularly care for any of them. |
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| | Queen Elizabeth I: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources |
| | Elizabeth was concerned that her imprisonment in the countryside would remove her too much from the public eye and her ceaseless letter-writing was an attempt to reassert her position as princess of England. | | | No one believed Elizabeth to be more than the illegitimate daughter of the king. | | | Elizabeth kept the curtains of the litter pulled back as she entered the city, and the citizens were able to see her pale, frightened face. |
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| | Powell's Books - Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer |
| | Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this second novel in the "Young Royals" series explores the relationship between a girl who became one of England's most powerful monarchs and the sister who tried everything to stop her. | | | Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth I and ending when she is crowned queen, this second novel in the "Young Royals" series explores the relationship between a girl who became one of England's most powerful monarchs and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, who tried everything to stop her. | | | Elizabeth Tudor's teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. |
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