The Succession Crisis Flashcards
1
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The first blast of the monstrous trumpet against women
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John Knox identified as political enemy
2
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Marie de Guise
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Ruled Scotland
3
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Isabella of Castile
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Ruled Spain
4
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Elizabeth’s succession
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• 25 years old
5
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Succession in parliament
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1566 - parliament forbidden to raise the succession issue
6
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Marriage pros and cons
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Pros:
• powerful alliance
• heir
Cons: • limit personal freedom • had to share power • most suitable candidates are Catholic • make enemies of rejected countries • Mary’s marriage caused rebellion • English husband would unbalance the different groups at court • Henry VIII wives
7
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Foreign suitors
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- Prince Eric of Sweden - negotiated for years
- Charles of Austria (son of the Holy Roman Emperor) - negotiated till 1567 although he was catholic and unwilling to live in England
- Philip of Spain - widower of Mary, keen to regain title, Catholic, family was ally against France, marriage to Mary sparked rebellion, treated Mary badly, no children, costly war had cost Calais
8
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English suitors
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- Earl of Arundel
- Sir William Pickering
- Robert Dudley -> Amy Dudley’s death inquest. 1578- married Countess of Essex
9
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The last suitor
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- Duke of Alençon (younger brother of king of France)
- 20 years younger, physically deformed, Catholic ‘her frog’
- St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572 - thousands of Protestants murdered
- propaganda pamphlets
- lizzy called off negotiations despite council
10
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Possible heirs
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- October 1562- smallpox
- Stuart claim -> Mary descended from Henry VIII’s older sister (married Lord Darnley)
- Suffolk claim - lady Catherine (married earl of hurtwood) and lady Mary (Henry VIII’s younger sister was Mary Suffolk so he said to do this) who were both Protestants but they married without her permission and were inorisoned
- James VI (both mom and dad were descendants of Elizabeth’s aunt, Margaret Tudor) some suggested Arabella but nah
- May 1601- Robert Cecil correspondence
