Issues of succession

Question 1

1509

Answer 1

-HoC raised the issue of marriage

Question 2

1562

Answer 2

-Elizabeth gets smallpox + it seems as if she was going to die, issue of succession grows more intense

Question 3

1563

Answer 3

-Parl meets again- mass panic among her councillors

Question 4

1566

Answer 4

-Parl convince Elizabeth to marry including Leicester + Cecil
-Resulted in the banishment of Leicester + Earl of Pembroke from the presence chamber
-Elizabeth reasserted her view that the issue of marriage + succession were royal prerogative

Question 5

1576

Answer 5

-Declared capable of bearing a child; a possible marriage to Francais Duke of Anjou
-Many feared it would lead to an infant child under the influence of France BUT nothing came from this

Question 6

Final succession: how is Elizabeth solving the problem?

Answer 6

-Mary queen of scots had been executed, removing any potential risks–> her son James VI of Scotland was next in line, he was a Protestant w 2 sons
-Both Essex + Cecil kept in regular contact w James ensuring him an untroubled succession.