Elizabeth

Question 1

When was Elizabeth born

Answer 1

1533

Question 2

Who was Elizabeth’s mother?

Answer 2

Anne Boleyn

Question 3

What was Elizabeth’s religion?

Answer 3

Protestant - raised by Catherine Parr

Question 4

Why was Elizabeth emotionally cautious of men her whole life?

Answer 4

Due to childhood events with Thomas Seymour who had intended to marry her after the death of Catherine Parr.
This moment was described as a ‘turning point’ in Elizabeth’s life

Question 5

How had Thomas Seymour used Elizabeth?

Answer 5

For political gain, he was jealous of his brother’s power - Edward Seymour who currently had the titles of Duke of Somerset and Lord protector

Question 6

How had Elizabeth lived in Mary’s final years of reign?

Answer 6

After the Wyatt rebellion she spent 8 weeks locked up in the tower of London, she then spent a year under house arrest

Question 7

How had Elizabeth been used in the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 7

Used in a plot to overthrow her half-sister Mary. She would marry Edward Courtenay in order to strengthen his claim to the throne

Question 8

What was Elizabeth hailed as during her coronation?

Answer 8

The restorer of protestantism

Question 9

When did Elizabeth implement her religious settlement?

Answer 9

1599

Question 10

2 mains acts of Elizabeth’s religious settlement?

Answer 10

Act of supremacy

Act of uniformity

Question 11

What did the act of supremacy establish?

Answer 11

Elizabeth as supreme governor of the church

Question 12

How did the act of supremacy appease to Catholics?

Answer 12

They could only ever consider the pope to be the supreme head of the church and God’s representative on earth

Question 13

What did the act of uniformity say?

Answer 13

• The 1552 book of common prayer should be used
• Everyone had to attend church on sundays or they would have to pay a fine - 12d to poor relief
• Required all members of the clergy to swear upon an oath of supremacy
• Church vestements from the second year of Edward’s reign were to be reintroduced

Question 14

Overall what was the Elizabethan religious settlement?

Answer 14

a mixture between the religious settlement of Edward’s reign and Henry VIII’s reign

Question 15

What extra religious acts did Elizabeth pass?

Answer 15

• Repealed heresy laws
• act which ensured clergy would preach at least 4 times a year
• Act which required every church in England to present an English bible
• Dissolution of monastries and chantries that Mary had restored
  Implementation of the court of fruits and tenths

Question 16

Consequences of the religious settlement?

Answer 16

• Because churchmen had to sign an oath of supremacy 400 members of the clergy resigned and just 1 bishop agreed to sign the oath
• Caused divisions - some of the acts pleased neither the protestant reformers or religious conservatives, for example the law implemented which required christ to be shown at the Eucharist

Question 17

Which religious act upset both, the protestant reformers and religious conservatives?

Answer 17

The law passed that required for christ to be shown at the eucharist

Question 18

Which religious acts brought in revenue to the crown?

Answer 18

The act of first fruits and tenths

Dissolution of the monastries and chantries re-established by Mary - increased crowns revenue by £40,000 yearly

Question 19

How much did the dissolution of the monastries and chantries, as well as the act a first fruits and tenths increase the crowns revenue by?

Answer 19

£40,000 a year

Question 20

Why was the increased revenue for the crown through the implementation of religious policies beneficial to the crown?

Answer 20

They were expecting Scotland to declare war at any point and were still at war with France

Question 21

Who was the next heir to the throne after Elizabeth?

Answer 21

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 22

How did Mary Queen of Scots have a claim to the English throne?

Answer 22

Through her grandmother, Margaret tudor who married James IV of Scotland

Question 23

Who did Mary Queen of Scots marry, strengthening her claim to the English throne?

Answer 23

Lord Darnley