Elizabeth rebellions Flashcards
What year was the Northern Rebellion?
1569
What year was the Ridolfi plot?
1571
What year was Essex’s rebellion?
1601
What year was the Throckmorton plot?
1583
What year was the Babington plot and what was significant about it?
1586 - led to MQS execution
Who were the main people involving the Northern Rebellion?
1) Earl of Northumberland
2) Duke of Norfolk
3) Earl of Westmorland
What happened in the northern rebellion?
Elizabeth declined the Duke of Norfolk’s marriage to MQS
He left royal court without permission and headed north where he met Earl of Northumberland and Earl of Westmorland
Illegal Catholic mass at Durham cathedral and marched south
Earl of Sussex raised an army and the rebels disbanded
What were the consequences for the perpetrators of the Northern rebellion?
1) Northumberland captured and executed
2) Norfolk pit in the Tower of London
3) Westmorland escaped to France where he died in poverty
Who were the main people in the Ridolfi plot?
Duke of Norfolk
Roberto Ridolfi - Italian banker
What happened in the Ridolfi plot?
Norfolk released from the tower and worked with Roberto Ridolfi
Plan was to start another northern rebellion while there was an invasion from the Netherlands.
Elizabeth was to be killed and replaced with MQS
Spies found a bag of coded letters and the code was found under Norfolk’s doormat.
What were the consequences for those in the Ridolfi plot?
Norfolk eventually confessed and was executed in 1572
Who were the main people involved in Essex’s rebellion?
Earl of Essex
Robert Cecil
What happened in Essex’s rebellion
Essex had had some run ins with the Queen in recent times and he wanted to remove his rival Robert Cecil.
Essex took 4 privy councillors hostage and marched to London with his followers.
Cecil labelled him a traitor and many left the rebellion. Essex left and came back to find many hostages had been freed by those who had abandoned the march.
What were the consequences for those who took part in Essex’s rebellion?
Essex told Elizabeth who was involved in the plot in exchange for a private beheading.
Several other rebels were executed but most were only fined.
What happened in the Babington plot?
Babington was recruited by Jesuits to organise a new plot.
Letters were written to MQS in code and a plan was devised by mid 1586.
Walsingham new all about the letters and waited until there was a clear sign that Mary was a part of it
Mary eventually consented to the assassination of Elizabeth and she was caught. Babington was executed.
