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'''Elizabeth I, [[Monarch of England|Queen of England]]''', 1558-1603 She was the daughter of [[Henry VIII, King of England]] by his second wife Anne Boleyn. She succeded her sister [[Mary, Queen of England|Mary]] as Queen of England in 1558. She died in 1603 and was succeeded by her first-cousin twice-removed, who was up until then, James VI King of Scotland, but who ruled England as [[James I, King of England]]. ==External links== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_England Elizabeth I] at Wikipedia *[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00008149&tree=LEO Elizabeth I] at Genealogics [[Category:Deaths in 1603]] [[Category:Middle Ages]] [[Category:England]] ----- Elizabeth I of England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia *Reign 17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603 *Coronation 15 January 1559 *Predecessor Mary I *Successor [[James I, King of England|James I]] *Royal house House of Tudor *Father [[Henry VIII, King of England|Henry VIII]] *Mother Anne Boleyn *Born 7 September 1533 Greenwich, England *Died 24 March 1603 (aged 69) Richmond, England *Burial Westminster Abbey Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth (or sixth if Lady Jane Grey is included) and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed three years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Perhaps for that reason, her brother, Edward VI, cut her out of the succession. His will, however, was set aside, as it contravened the Third Succession Act of 1543, in which Elizabeth was named as successor provided that Mary I of England, Elizabeth's half-sister, should die without issue. In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded Mary, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel,[1] and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley. One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry, but despite several petitions from parliament, she never did. The reasons for this choice are unknown, and they have been much debated. As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants and literature of the day. In government, Elizabeth was more conservative than her father and siblings.[2] One of her mottos was video et taceo: "I see, and say nothing".[3] This strategy, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Though Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs and only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland, the defeat of the Spanish armada in 1588 associated her name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in British history. Within 20 years of her death, she was being celebrated as the ruler of a golden age, an image that retains its hold on the English people. Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and slave-trader John Hawkins. Historians, however, tend to be more cautious in their assessment. They often depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered,[4] sometimes indecisive ruler,[5] who enjoyed more than her share of luck. Towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity to the point where many of her subjects were relieved at her death. Elizabeth is, however, acknowledged by historians as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor, in an age when government was ramshackle and limited and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones. Such was the case with Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom she imprisoned in 1568 and eventually had executed in 1587. After the short reigns of Elizabeth's brother and sister, her forty-five years on the throne provided stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.[2] ==Early life== Elizabeth Tudor, c. 1546, by an unknown artist. The simplicity of this portrait contrasts with the ornate icons that came later.[6]Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace and named after both her paternal and maternal grandmothers, Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard .[7] She was the second legitimate child of Henry VIII of England to survive infancy; her mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. At birth, Elizabeth was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England. Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne.[8][9] King Henry had desperately wanted a legitimate son, to ensure the Tudor succession. After Elizabeth's birth, Queen Anne failed to provide a male heir. She suffered at least two miscarriages, one in 1534 and another at the beginning of 1536. On 2 May 1536, she was arrested and imprisoned. Hastily convicted on trumped-up charges, she was beheaded on 19 May 1536.[10][11] Elizabeth, who was 2 years, 8 months, old at the time, was declared illegitimate and deprived of the title of princess.[12] Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's death, Henry married Jane Seymour,[13] who died 12 days after the birth of their son, Prince Edward. Elizabeth was placed in Edward's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.[14] The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, a manuscript translation from the French, by Elizabeth, aged 11, presented to Catherine Parr in 1544. The embroidered binding with the monogram KP for "Katherin Parr" is believed to have been worked by Elizabeth.[15]Elizabeth's first governess, Lady Margaret Bryan, wrote that she was "as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life".[16] At the age of four, Elizabeth passed into the care of Catherine Champernowne, better known by her later, married name of Catherine "Kat" Ashley, who remained Elizabeth's friend for life. Champernowne clearly made a good job of Elizabeth's early education: by the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian. Under Grindal, a talented and skillful tutor, she also progressed in French and Greek.[17] After Grindal died in 1548, Elizabeth received her education under Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be fun.[18] By the time her formal education ended in 1550, she was the best educated woman of her generation.[19] ==Thomas Seymour== Henry VIII died in 1547, when Elizabeth was 13 years old, and was succeeded by her half brother, Edward VI. Catherine Parr, Henry's last wife, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. The couple took Elizabeth into their household at Chelsea. There Elizabeth experienced an emotional crisis that historians believe affected her for the rest of her life.[20] Seymour, approaching forty but with a natural charm and "a powerful sex appeal",[20] engaged in romps and horseplay with the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth. These included entering her bedroom in his nightgown, tickling her and slapping her on the buttocks. This state of affairs was put to a stop by Catherine Parr, after she discovered the pair in an embrace.[21][22] In May 1548, Elizabeth was sent away.[23] That was not the last of the matter, however. Seymour was ambitious and scheming to control the royal family.[24][25] When Catherine Parr died of puerperal fever after childbirth on 5 September 1548, he renewed his attentions towards Elizabeth, intent on wedding her. [26] The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged during an interrogation of Catherine Ashley and Thomas Parry, Elizabeth's cofferer.[27] For his brother and the council, this was the last straw,[28] and in January, 1549, Seymour was arrested on suspicion of plotting to marry Elizabeth and overthrow his brother. Elizabeth, living at Hatfield House, would admit nothing. Her stubbornness exasperated her interrogator, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who reported, "I do see it in her face that she is guilty".[28] Seymour was beheaded on 20 March 1549. Elizabeth was aged 15 and a half. ==Queen Mary== Queen Mary I, by Antonis Mor, 1554. Mary imprisoned Elizabeth in the Tower of London for suspected collaboration with the rebel Thomas Wyatt. The remaining wing of the Old Palace, Hatfield House. It was here that Elizabeth was told of her sister's death in November 1558.Edward VI died of tuberculosis on 6 July 1553, aged fifteen. His will swept aside the 1543 Act of Succession, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.[29] Lady Jane was proclaimed queen, but her support quickly crumbled, and she was deposed less than two weeks later. Mary rode triumphantly into London, with Elizabeth at her side.[30] The show of solidarity between the sisters did not last long. Mary was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Mass. This included Elizabeth, who had no choice but outwardly to conform.[31] Mary's initial popularity ebbed away when it became known that she planned to marry Prince Philip of Spain, the son of Emperor Charles V.[32] Discontent spread rapidly through the country, and many looked to Elizabeth as a focus for their opposition to Mary's religious policies. In January and February 1554, uprisings broke out (known as Wyatt's rebellion) in several parts of England and Wales, led by Thomas Wyatt.[33] Once the rising had collapsed, Elizabeth was brought to court and interrogated. On 18 March, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where Lady Jane Grey had been executed on 12 February to deter the rebels.[34] The terrified Elizabeth fervently protested her innocence.[35] Though it is unlikely that she had plotted with the rebels, some of them were known to have approached her. Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put on trial.[36] However, Elizabeth's supporters in the government, among them Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her. On 22 May, therefore, Elizabeth was moved from the Tower to Woodstock, where she was to spend almost a year under house arrest in the charge of Sir Henry Bedingfield. Crowds cheered her all along the way.[37][38] On 17 April 1555, Elizabeth was recalled to court to be closely attended during the final stages of Mary's apparent pregnancy. If Mary and her child died, Elizabeth would become queen. If, on the other hand, Mary gave birth to a healthy child, Elizabeth's chances of becoming queen would recede sharply.[37] When it became clear that Mary was not pregnant, no one believed any longer that she could have a child.[39] Elizabeth's succession seemed assured.[40] Even Philip, who became King of Spain in 1556, acknowledged the new political reality. From this time forward, he cultivated Elizabeth, preferring her to the likely alternative, Mary, Queen of Scots, who was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.[41] When his wife fell ill in 1558, Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth.[42] By October, Elizabeth was making plans for her government. On 6 November, Mary recognised Elizabeth as her heir.[43][44] Eleven days later, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne when Mary died at St. James's Palace on 17 November. ==Queen Elizabeth== Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25. As her triumphal progress wound through the city on the eve of the coronation ceremony, she was welcomed wholeheartedly by the citizens and greeted by orations and pageants, most with a strong Protestant flavour. Elizabeth's open and gracious responses endeared her to the spectators, who were "wonderfully ravished".[45] The following day, 15 January 1559, Elizabeth was crowned at Westminster Abbey and anointed by the Catholic bishop of Carlisle. She was then presented for the people's acceptance, amidst a deafening noise of organs, fifes, trumpets, drums, and bells.[46] Elizabeth I in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine. She wears her hair loose, as traditional for the coronation of a queen, perhaps also as a symbol of virginity.[47] The painting dates to the first decade of the seventeenth century and is based on a lost original.[48]On 20 November 1558, Elizabeth declared her intentions to her Council and other peers who had come to Hatfield to swear allegiance. The speech contains the first record of her often-used metaphor of the "two bodies": the body natural and the body politic: My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, and yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now committed to me. And as I am but one body naturally considered, though by His permission a body politic to govern, so shall I desire you all...to be assistant to me, that I with my ruling and you with your service may make a good account to Almighty God and leave some comfort to our posterity on earth. I mean to direct all my actions by good advice and counsel.[49] ==Religion== Elizabeth's conscience was in no doubt that a break with Rome was justified. This coincided with her most powerful lords' wish for her to repudiate the Pope and Spanish influence. The policies of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State, and her chief advisors were aligned. She also knew that the papacy might never recognise her as the legitimate child of Henry VIII and the rightful ruler of England.[50] She therefore determined to establish an English church suited to the needs of the English people. As a result, the parliament of 1559 started to legislate for a church based on the Protestant settlement of Edward VI, with the monarch as its head.[51] The House of Commons backed the proposals strongly, but the bill of supremacy met opposition in the House of Lords, particularly from the bishops. Elizabeth was fortunate, however, that many bishoprics were vacant at the time, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury.[52][53] This enabled supporters amongst peers to outvote the bishops and conservative peers. After various negotiations and changes to the wording, which made the act more Catholic in nature, the new Act of Supremacy became law on 8 May 1559. Elizabeth's title was agreed to be Supreme Governor of the Church of England rather than the more contentious Supreme Head. All public officials were to swear an oath of loyalty to the monarch as the supreme governor or risk disqualification from office; however, the heresy laws were repealed, to avoid a repeat of the persecution of dissenters practised by Mary. At the same time, a new Act of Uniformity was passed, which made attendance at church and the use of an adapted version of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer compulsory, though the penalties for disobedience were not extreme.[54] ==Marriage question== Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven van der Meulen, 1560s. Elizabeth's friendship with Dudley, her foremost favourite, lasted for over thirty years.From the start of Elizabeth's reign, the question arose whom she would marry. However, she never married, and the reasons for this are not clear. Historians have speculated that Thomas Seymour had put her off sexual relationships, or that she knew herself to be infertile.[55][56] Until bearing a child became impossible, she considered several suitors, the last courtship ending in 1581 when Elizabeth was aged 48, was with François, Duke of Anjou (22 years her junior). However, Elizabeth had no need of a man's help to govern, and marrying risked a loss of control or of foreign interference in her affairs, as had happened to her sister Mary. On the other hand, marriage offered the chance of an heir.[57] Elizabeth often received offers of marriage, but she only seriously considered three or four suitors for any length of time. Of these, her childhood friend Robert Dudley probably came closest. During 1559, Elizabeth's friendship with the married Dudley seems to have turned to love. Rumour spread through the court that she was sleeping with him;[58] William Cecil, Elizabeth's most trusted advisor, made clear his disapproval. When Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, was found dead in 1560, under ambiguous circumstances, a great scandal arose.[59] For a time, Elizabeth seriously considered marrying Dudley; but after several months, she put duty ahead of her feelings and decided against the marriage. Dudley, whom she made Earl of Leicester and appointed to the Privy Council, retained a special place in her heart, though her infatuation mellowed in time to a special and lasting friendship. After Elizabeth died, a note from Dudley, who had died in 1588, was found among her possessions, marked "his last letter".[60] After the Dudley affair, Elizabeth kept the marriage question open but often only as a diplomatic ploy.[61] She appears to have considered marriage out of duty rather than personal preference. Parliament repeatedly petitioned her to marry, but she always answered evasively.[62] In 1563, she told an imperial envoy: "If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married".[61] In the same year, following Elizabeth's illness with smallpox, the succession question became a heated issue. Parliament urged the queen to marry or nominate an heir, to prevent a civil war upon her death. She refused to do either. In April, she prorogued the Parliament, which did not reconvene until she needed its support to raise taxes in 1566. The House of Commons threatened to withhold funds until she agreed to provide for the succession. In 1566, Sir Robert Bell boldly pursued the issue despite Elizabeth's command to desist and became the target of her anger, saying, "Mr. Bell with his complices must needs prefer their speeches to the upper house to have you my lords, consent with them, whereby you were seduced, and of simplicity did assent unto it."[63] In 1566, she confided to the Spanish ambassador that if she could find a way to settle the succession without marrying, she would do so. By 1570, senior figures in the government privately accepted that Elizabeth would never marry or name a successor. William Cecil was already seeking solutions to the succession problem.[61] For this stance, as for her failure to marry, she was often accused of irresponsibility.[64] However, Elizabeth's silence strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup.[65] Elizabeth's unmarried status inspired a cult of virginity. In poetry and portraiture, she was depicted as a virgin or a goddess or both, not as a normal woman.[66] At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, "And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin".[66] Later on, particularly after 1578, poets and writers took up the theme and turned it into an iconography that exalted Elizabeth. In an age of metaphors and conceits, she was portrayed as married to her kingdom and subjects, under divine protection. In 1599, Elizabeth spoke of "all my husbands, my good people".[67] ==Foreign policy== François, Duke of Anjou, by Nicholas Hilliard. Elizabeth called the duke her "frog", finding him "not so deformed" as she had been led to expect.[68]Apart from the Dudley affair, Elizabeth treated the marriage issue as an aspect of foreign policy.[69] Though she turned down Philip II's own offer in 1559, she negotiated for several years to marry his cousin Archduke Charles of Austria. However, relations with the Habsburgs deteriorated by 1568. Elizabeth then considered marriage to two French Valois princes in turn, first Henri, Duke of Anjou, and later, from 1572 to 1581, his brother François, Duke of Anjou.[70] This last proposal was tied to a planned alliance against Spanish control of the Southern Netherlands.[71] Elizabeth seems to have taken the courtship seriously for a time, and wore a frog-shaped earring that Anjou had sent her.[72] Elizabeth's foreign policy was largely defensive. The exception was the disastrous occupation of Le Havre from October 1562 to June 1563, when Elizabeth's Huguenot allies joined with the Catholics to retake the port. Elizabeth had intended to exchange Le Havre for Calais, retaken by France in January 1558.[73] She sent troops into Scotland in 1560 to prevent the French using it as a base.[74] In 1585, she signed the Treaty of Nonsuch with the Dutch to block the Spanish threat to England.[75] Only through the activities of her fleets did Elizabeth pursue an aggressive policy. This paid off in the war against Spain, 80% of which was fought at sea.[76] She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets. Her reign also saw the first colonisation or "planting" of new land in North America; and the colony of Virginia was named for her. In truth, however, an element of piracy and self-enrichment drove Elizabethan seafarers, over which the queen had little control.[77][78] ==Scotland== Mary, Queen of Scots. School of François ClouetElizabeth's first policy toward Scotland was to oppose the French presence there.[79] She feared that the French planned to invade England and put Mary, Queen of Scots, who was in effect the heir to the English crown,[80] on the throne.[81] Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.[82] When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.[83] Mary refused to ratify the treaty.[84] Elizabeth offended Mary by proposing her own former suitor, Robert Dudley, as a husband.[84] Instead, in 1565 Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who carried his own claim to the English throne. The marriage, however, was the first of a series of errors of judgement by Mary that handed the victory to the Scottish Protestants and to Elizabeth. Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio. In February 1567, Darnley was murdered by conspirators almost certainly led by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. Shortly afterwards, on 15 May 1567, Mary married Bothwell, arousing suspicions that she had been party to the murder of her husband. Elizabeth wrote to her: "How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.[85] These events led rapidly to Mary's defeat and imprisonment in Loch Leven Castle. The Scottish lords forced her to abdicate in favour of her son James, who had been born in June 1566. James was taken to Stirling Castle to be raised as a Protestant. Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth. Elizabeth's first instinct was to restore her fellow monarch; but she and her council instead chose to play safe. Rather than risk returning Mary to Scotland with an English army or sending her to France and the Catholic enemies of England, they detained her in England. She was imprisoned there for the next nineteen years.[86] Mary was soon the focus for rebellion. In 1569, plotters in the Rising of the North talked of freeing her, and a scheme arose to marry her to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Elizabeth reacted by sending Howard to the block. Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.[87] At first, Elizabeth resisted calls for Mary's death. By late 1586, however, she had been persuaded to sanction her trial and execution on the evidence of letters written during the Babington Plot.[88] Elizabeth's proclamation of the sentence announced that "the said Mary, pretending title to the same Crown, had compassed and imagined within the same realm divers things tending to the hurt, death and destruction of our royal person."[89] On 8 February 1587, Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire.[90] ==Spain== After the disastrous occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562–1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585, when she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II. This followed the deaths in 1584 of the allies William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and François, Duke of Anjou, and the surrender of a series of Dutch towns to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Philip's governor of the Spanish Netherlands. In December 1584, an alliance between Philip II and the French Catholic League at Joinville undermined the ability of Anjou's brother, Henry III of France, to counter Spanish domination of the Netherlands. It also extended Spanish influence along the channel coast of France, where the Catholic League was strong, and exposed England to invasion.[75] The English and the Dutch reacted in August 1585 with the Treaty of Nonsuch, whereby Elizabeth, pressured by her advisors, promised military support to the Dutch. The treaty marked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War, which lasted until the Treaty of London in 1604. Elizabeth did not trust this course of action from the start. The expedition, led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, achieved nothing.[91] Elizabeth's strategy, to use the English army as a defensive bargaining tool, was soon at odds with that of Dudley, who wanted to fight an active campaign but lacked the resources to do so. He enraged Elizabeth by accepting the post of Governor-General from the Dutch States-General. Elizabeth saw this as a Dutch ploy to embroil her further in their defense.[92] She wrote to him: We could never have imagined (had we not seen it fall out in experience) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour....And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name. Whereof fail you not, as you will answer the contrary at your utmost peril.[93] Elizabeth and her parliament's failure to send Dudley sufficient money and troops, combined with his own incompetence as a military leader, doomed the campaign to impotence. Dudley finally resigned his command in December 1587, his reputation in tatters. By that time, Philip II had decided to take the war to England.[94] On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands. The armada, however, was defeated by a combination of miscalculation,[95] misfortune, and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Gravelines which dispersed the Spanish ships to the northeast.[96] The armada straggled home to Spain in shattered remnants, after disastrous losses on the coast of Ireland (after some ships had tried to struggle back to Spain via the North Sea, and then back south past the west coast of Ireland).[97] Unaware of the armada's fate, English forces mustered to defend the country. Elizabeth inspected her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August. Wearing a silver breastplate over a white velvet dress, she addressed them in one of her most famous speeches:[98] My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people....I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.[99] When no invasion came, the nation rejoiced. Elizabeth's procession to a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral rivalled that of her coronation as a spectacle.[97] The defeat of the armada was a potent propaganda victory, both for Elizabeth and for Protestant England. The English took their delivery as a symbol of God's favour and of the nation's inviolability under a virgin queen.[76] However, the victory was not a turning point in the war, which continued and often favoured Spain.[100] The Spanish still controlled the Netherlands, and the threat of invasion remained.[94] Sir Walter Raleigh claimed after her death that Elizabeth's caution had impeded the war against Spain: If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times. But her Majesty did all by halves, and by petty invasions taught the Spaniard how to defend himself, and to see his own weakness.[101] Though some historians have criticised Elizabeth on similar grounds,[102] Raleigh's verdict has more often been judged unfair. Elizabeth had good reason not to place too much trust in her commanders, who once in action tended, as she put it herself, "to be transported with an haviour of vainglory".[103] ==France== When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support. It was her first venture into France since the retreat from Le Havre in 1563. Henry's succession was strongly contested by the Catholic League and by Philip II, and Elizabeth feared a Spanish takeover of the channel ports. The subsequent English campaigns in France, however, were disorganised and ineffective.[104] Lord Willoughby, largely ignoring Elizabeth's orders, roamed northern France to little effect, with an army of 4,000 men. He withdrew in disarray in December 1589, having lost half his troops. In 1591, the campaign of John Norreys, who led 3,000 men to Brittany, was even more of a disaster. As for all such expeditions, Elizabeth was unwilling to invest in the supplies and reinforcements requested by the commanders. Norreys left for London to plead in person for more support. In his absence, a Catholic League army almost destroyed the remains of his army at Craon, north-west France, in May 1591. In July, Elizabeth sent out another force under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, to help Henry IV in besieging Rouen. The result was just as dismal. Essex accomplished nothing and returned home in January 1592. Henry abandoned the siege in April.[105] As usual, Elizabeth lacked control over her commanders once they were abroad. "Where he is, or what he doth, or what he is to do," she wrote of Essex, "we are ignorant".[106] ==Ireland== Although Ireland was one of her two kingdoms, Elizabeth faced a hostile—and in places virtually autonomous[107]—Catholic population that was willing to plot with her enemies. Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England.[74] In response to a series of uprisings, the English forces pursued scorched-earth tactics, burning the land and slaughtering man, woman and child. During a revolt in Munster led by Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond, in 1582, an estimated 30,000 Irish people starved to death. The poet Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same".[108] Elizabeth advised her commanders that the Irish, "that rude and barbarous nation", be well treated; but she showed no remorse when force and bloodshed were deemed necessary.[109] Between 1594 and 1603, Elizabeth faced her most severe test in Ireland, with the revolt known as Tyrone's Rebellion, or the Nine Years War. Its leader, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, was backed by Spain.[110] In spring 1599, Elizabeth sent Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to put the revolt down. To her frustration,[111] he made little progress and returned to England without permission. He was replaced by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who took three years to defeat the rebels. O'Neill finally surrendered in 1603, a few days after Elizabeth's death.[112] ==Later years and death== As Elizabeth aged and marriage became unlikely, her image gradually changed. She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem. Her painted portraits became less realistic and more a set of enigmatic icons that made her look much younger than she was. In fact, her skin had been scarred by smallpox in 1562, leaving her half bald and dependent on wigs and cosmetics.[113][114] Sir Walter Raleigh called her "a lady whom time had surprised".[115] However, the more Elizabeth's beauty faded, the more her courtiers praised it.[113] Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by William Segar, 1590Elizabeth was happy to play the part,[116] but it is possible that in the last decade of her life she began to believe her own performance. She became fond and indulgent of the charming but petulant young Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who took liberties with her for which she forgave him.[117] She repeatedly appointed him to military posts despite his growing record of irresponsibility. After Essex's desertion of his command in Ireland in 1599 (returning to England from Ireland against Elizabeth's express command), Elizabeth had him placed under house arrest and the following year deprived him of his monopolies.[118] In February 1601, the earl tried to raise a rebellion in London. He intended to seize the queen but few rallied to his support, and he was beheaded on 25 February. Elizabeth knew that her own misjudgements were partly to blame for this turn of events. An observer reported in 1602 that "Her delight is to sit in the dark, and sometimes with shedding tears to bewail Essex".[119] The monopolies Elizabeth reclaimed from Essex were her typical reward to a courtier during the last years of her reign. She had come to rely on this cost-free system of patronage rather than ask Parliament for more subsidies in a time of war.[120] The practice soon led to price-fixing, the enrichment of courtiers at the public's expense, and widespread resentment.[121] This culminated in agitation in the House of Commons during the parliament of 1601.[122] In her famous "Golden Speech" of 30 November 1601, Elizabeth professed ignorance of the abuses and won the members over with promises and her usual appeal to the emotions:[123] Who keeps their sovereign from the lapse of error, in which, by ignorance and not by intent they might have fallen, what thank they deserve, we know, though you may guess. And as nothing is more dear to us than the loving conservation of our subjects' hearts, what an undeserved doubt might we have incurred if the abusers of our liberality, the thrallers of our people, the wringers of the poor, had not been told us![124] Elizabeth I of England The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign.[100] The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, the tax burden grew heavier, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war. Prices rose and the standard of living fell.[125][126] During this time, repression of Catholics intensified, and Elizabeth authorised commissions in 1591 to interrogate and monitor Catholic householders.[127] To maintain the illusion of peace and prosperity, she increasingly relied on internal spies and propaganda.[125] In her last years, mounting criticism reflected a decline in the public's affection for her.[128] This same period of economic and political uncertainty, however, produced an unsurpassed literary flowering in England.[129] The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578. During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. During this period and into the Jacobean era that followed, the English theatre reached its highest peaks.[130] The notion of a great Elizabethan age depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign. They owed little directly to the queen, who was never a major patron of the arts.[131] Portrait of King James by John de Critz, circa 1606Elizabeth's most trusted advisor, Burghley, died on 4 August 1598. His political mantle passed to his son, Robert Cecil, who soon became the leader of the government.[132] One task he addressed was to prepare the way for a smooth succession. Since Elizabeth would never name her successor, Cecil was obliged to proceed in secret.[133] He therefore entered into a coded negotiation with James VI of Scotland, who had a strong but unrecognised claim. Cecil coached the impatient James to humour Elizabeth and "secure the heart of the highest, to whose sex and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions".[134] The advice worked. James's tone delighted Elizabeth, who responded: "So trust I that you will not doubt but that your last letters are so acceptably taken as my thanks cannot be lacking for the same, but yield them to you in grateful sort".[135] In historian J. E. Neale's view, Elizabeth may not have declared her wishes openly to James, but she made them known with "unmistakable if veiled phrases".[136] The Queen's health remained fair until the autumn of 1602, when a series of deaths among her friends plunged her into a severe depression. In February 1603, the death of her cousin and close friend, Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, came as a particular blow. In March, Elizabeth fell sick and remained in a "settled and unremovable melancholy".[137] She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace, between two and three in the morning. A few hours later, Cecil and the council set their plans in motion and proclaimed James VI of Scotland as James I of England.[138] Elizabeth's coffin was carried downriver at night to Whitehall, on a barge lit with torches. At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet. In the words of the chronicler John Stow: Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.[139] ==Legacy== Elizabeth was lamented, but the people were relieved at her death.[140] A new age was born, and at first the signs were good, with the ending of the war against Spain in 1604 and lower taxes. Until the death of Robert Cecil in 1612, the government ran along much the same lines as before.[141] James I's rule, however, became unpopular when he turned state affairs over to court favourites, and in the 1620s there was a nostalgic revival of the cult of Elizabeth.[142] Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age. James was depicted as a Catholic sympathiser, presiding over a corrupt court.[143] The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of factionalism and military and economic difficulties,[144] was taken at face value and her reputation inflated. Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, recalled: "When we had experience of a Scottish government, the Queen did seem to revive. Then was her memory much magnified."[145] Elizabeth's reign became idealised as a time when crown, church and parliament had worked in constitutional balance.[146] Elizabeth I, painted by an unknown artist after 1620, during the first revival of interest in her reign. Time sleeps on her right and Death looks over her left shoulder; two putti hold the crown above her head.[147]The picture of Elizabeth painted by her Protestant admirers of the early 17th century has proved lasting and influential.[148] Her memory was also revived during the Napoleonic Wars, when the nation again found itself on the brink of invasion.[149] In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day,[140][150] and in the mid-20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.[151][152] Historians of that period, such as J. E. Neale (1934) and A. L. Rowse (1950), interpreted Elizabeth's reign as a golden age of progress.[153] Recent historians, however, have taken a more complicated view of Elizabeth.[154] Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea, such as the "Islands voyage" to the Azores, of 1597 (where Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex defied the Queen's orders, and pursued the Spanish treasure fleet before ensuring that the Spanish navy was out of action).[104] Elizabeth's problems in Ireland also stain her record.[155] Rather than as a brave defender of the Protestant nations against Spain and the Habsburgs, she is more often regarded as cautious in her foreign policies. She offered minimal aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference abroad.[156] Elizabeth established an English church that helped shape a national identity and remains in place today.[157][158][159] Those who praised her later as a Protestant heroine overlooked her refusal to drop all Catholic practices.[160][161] Historians note that in her day, strict Protestants regarded the Acts of Settlement and Uniformity of 1559 as a compromise.[162][163][164] In fact, Elizabeth believed that faith was personal and did not wish, as Francis Bacon put it, to "make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts".[165][166] Despite Elizabeth's largely defensive foreign policy, her reign raised England's status abroad. "She is only a woman, only mistress of half an island," marvelled Pope Sixtus V, "and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all".[167] Under Elizabeth, the nation gained a new self-confidence and sense of sovereignty, as Christendom fragmented.[142][168][169] Elizabeth was the first Tudor to recognise that a monarch ruled by popular consent.[170] She therefore always worked with parliament and advisers she could trust to tell her the truth—a style of government that her Stuart successors failed to follow. Some historians have called her lucky;[167] she believed that God was protecting her.[171] Priding herself on being "mere English",[172] Elizabeth trusted in God, honest advice, and the love of her subjects for the success of her rule.[173] In a prayer, she offered thanks to God that: [At a time] when wars and seditions with grievous persecutions have vexed almost all kings and countries round about me, my reign hath been peacable, and my realm a receptacle to thy afflicted Church. The love of my people hath appeared firm, and the devices of my enemies frustrate.[167] ==Ancestors== *16. Owen Tudor *8. Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond *17. Catherine of Valois *4. Henry VII of England *18. John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset *9. Margaret Beaufort *19. Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso *2. Henry VIII of England *20. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York *10. Edward IV of England *21. Cecily Neville *5. Elizabeth of York *22. Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers *11. Elizabeth Woodville *23. Jacquetta of Luxembourg *1. Elizabeth I of England *24. Geoffrey Boleyn *12. William Boleyn *25. Anne Hoo *6. Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire *26. Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde *13. Margaret Butler *27. Anne Hankford *3. Anne Boleyn *28. John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk *14. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk *29. Catherine de Moleyns *7. Elizabeth Howard *30. Frederick Tilney *15. Elizabeth Tilney *31. Elizabeth Cheney ==Notes and References== #^ "I mean to direct all my actions by good advice and counsel." Elizabeth's first speech as queen, Hatfield House, 20 November 1558. Loades, 35. #^ Starkey, 5. #^ Neale, 386. #^ In 1593, the French ambassador confessed: "When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death itself". Somerset, 731–32. #^ Somerset, 729. #^ "The painter...is unknown, but in a competently Flemish style he depicts the daughter of Anne Boleyn as quiet and studious-looking, ornament in her attire as secondary to the plainness of line that emphasizes her youth. Great is the contrast with the awesome fantasy of the later portraits: the pallid, mask-like features, the extravagance of headdress and ruff, the padded ornateness that seemed to exclude all humanity." Gaunt, 37. #^ Somerset, 4. #^ Loades, 3–5 #^ Somerset, 4–5. #^ Loades, 6–7. #^ Haigh, 1–3. #^ In the act of July 1536, it was stated that Elizabeth was "illegitimate... and utterly foreclosed, excluded and banned to claim, challenge, or demand any inheritance as lawful heir...to [the King] by lineal descent". Elizabeth who was an incredibly bright child, did not notice that her mother was gone but she did notice the change of her name. She apparently said to her governess. "how haps it governor, yesterday my Lady Princess, today but my Lady Elizabeth?" Somerset, 10. #^ "It had taken Henry VIII a month to dispose of his wife on a charge of treason, sweep some of her friends to the block with her, bastardise her child, and acquire a new queen. Here was the power of the Tudor monarchy in action, with the King bending his Council, the Church, and the law to do his will." Haigh, 1. #^ Loades, 7–8. #^ Davenport, 32. #^ Somerset, 11. #^ Our knowledge of Elizabeth's schooling and precocity comes largely from the memoirs of Roger Ascham, also the tutor of Prince Edward. Loades, 8–10. #^ Somerset, 25. #^ Loades, 21. #^ Loades, 11. #^ Loades, 14. #^ "Kat Ashley told another of Elizabeth's servants, Thomas Parry, that the Queen lost patience with both her husband and Elizabeth after she 'suddenly came upon them where they were all alone, he having her in his arms'." Somerset, 23. #^ She moved into the household of Catherine Ashley's sister Joan and her husband, Sir Anthony Denny, at Cheshunt. Loades, 16. #^ Haigh, 8. #^ Not only Elizabeth but Princess Mary and Lady Jane Grey had lived in Seymour's household at various times. Seymour had also "wormed his way" into King Edward's confidence by slipping him pocket money and calling the Lord Protector stingy; and he had tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King's person. Neale, 32. #^ Williams, 24. #^ Loades, 14, 16. #^ Neale, 33. #^ Loades, 24–25. #^ Elizabeth had assembled 2,000 horsemen, "a remarkable tribute to the size of her affinity". Loades 25. #^ Loades, 26. #^ Loades, 27. #^ Neale, 45. #^ Somerset, 49. #^ Loades, 28. #^ Somerset, 51. #^ Loades, 29. #^ "The wives of Wycombe passed cake and wafers to her until her litter became so burdened that she had to beg them to stop." Neale, 49. #^ Loades, 32. #^ Somerset, 66. #^ Neale, 53. #^ Loades, 33. #^ Neale, 59. #^ Somerset, 71. #^ Somerset, 89–90. The "Festival Book" account, from the British Library #^ Neale, 70. #^ Loades, 34. #^ Another copy of the lost original has been attributed both to Nicholas Hilliard and to Levina Teerlinc. See Strong, 163, and Doran, 43. #^ Full document reproduced by Loades, 36–37. #^ Somerset, 92. #^ Loades, 46. #^ "It was fortunate that ten out of twenty-six bishoprics were vacant, for of late there had been a high rate of mortality among the episcopate, and a fever had conveniently carried off Mary's Archbishop of Canterbury, Reginald Pole, less than twenty-four hours after her own death". Somerset, 98. #^ "There were no less than ten sees unrepresented through death or illness and the carelessness of 'the accursed cardinal' [Pole]". Black, 10. #^ Somerset, 101–103. #^ Loades, 38. #^ Haigh, 19. #^ Loades, 39. #^ Loades, 42. #^ In April 1559, Amy had been reported as suffering from a "malady in one of her breasts", and it is now presumed that she had cancer. At the time, it was widely believed that Dudley had done away with her in order to marry the queen. Somerset, 166–167. #^ Loades, 42–45. #^ Haigh, 17. #^ Loades, 40. #^ Hasler, 421–424. #^ Haigh, 20–21. #^ When in 1566 a parliamentary commission urged Elizabeth to name an heir, she referred to the way "a second person, as I have been" had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary. Haigh, 22–23. #^ Haigh, 23. #^ Haigh, 24. #^ Frieda, 397. #^ Loades, 51. #^ Loades, 53–54. #^ Loades, 54. #^ Somerset, 408. #^ Frieda, 191. #^ Loades, 55. #^ Haigh, 135. #^ Loades, 61. #^ Flynn and Spence, 126–128. #^ Somerset, 607–611. #^ Haigh, 131. #^ Mary's position as heir derived from her great-grandfather Henry VII of England, through his daughter Margaret Tudor. In her own words, "I am the nearest kinswoman she hath, being both of us of one house and stock, the Queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister". Guy, 115. #^ On Elizabeth's accession, Mary's Guise relatives had pronounced her Queen of England and had the English arms emblazoned with those of Scotland and France on her plate and furniture. Guy, 96–97. #^ By the terms of the treaty, both British and French troops withdrew from Scotland. Haigh, 132. #^ Loades, 67. #^ Loades, 68. #^ Letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, 23 June 1567." Quoted by Loades, 69–70. #^ Loades, 72–73. #^ Loades, 73. #^ Guy, 483–484. #^ Loades, 78–79. #^ Guy, 1–11. #^ Haigh, 134. #^ Haigh, 137. #^ Letter to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 10 February 1586, delivered by Sir Thomas Heneage. Loades, 94. #^ Haigh, 138. #^ When the Spanish naval commander, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, reached the coast near Calais, he found the Duke of Parma's troops unready and was forced to wait, giving the English the opportunity to launch their attack. Loades, 64. #^ Black, 349. #^ Neale, 300. #^ Though most historians accept that Elizabeth gave such a speech, its authenticity has been questioned (Frye, The Myth of Elizabeth at Tilbury, 1992), since it was not published until 1654. Doran, 235–236. #^ Somerset, 591. #• Neale, 297–98. #^ Black, 353. #^ Haigh, 145. #^ For example, C. H. Wilson (Berkeley, 1970) castigates Elizabeth for half-heartedness in the war against Spain. Haigh, 183. #^ "In some respects she had a firmer grasp of strategy than the men to whom she had to entrust the conduct of the war, and certainly much more damage was caused by her commanders' failure to adhere to carefully formulated instructions than by Elizabeth's vacillation or attempts to economise." Somerset, 655. #^ Haigh, 142. #^ Haigh, 143. #^ Haigh, 143–144. #^ One observer wrote that Ulster, for example, was "as unknown to the English here as the most inland part of Virginia". Somerset, 667. #^ Somerset, 668. #^ Somerset, 668–669. #^ Loades, 98. #^ In a letter of 19 July 1599 to Essex, Elizabeth wrote: "For what can be more true (if things be rightly examined) than that your two month's journey has brought in never a capital rebel against whom it had been worthy to have adventured one thousand men". Loades, 98. #^ Loades, 98–99. #^ Loades, 92. #^ Gaunt, 37. #^ Haigh, 171. #^ "The metaphor of drama is an appropriate one for Elizabeth's reign, for her power was an illusion — and an illusion was her power. Like Henry IV of France, she projected an image of herself which brought stability and prestige to her country. By constant attention to the details of her total performance, she kept the rest of the cast on their toes and kept her own part as queen." Haigh, 179. #^ Loades, 93. #^ Loades, 97. #^ Black, 410. #^ A Patent of Monopoly gave the holder control over an aspect of trade or manufacture. See Neale, 382. #^ Williams, 208. #^ Black, 192–194. #^ She gave the speech at Whitehall Palace to a deputation of 140 members, who afterwards all kissed her hand. Neale, 383–384. #^ Loades, 86. #^ Haigh, 155. #^ Black, 355–356. #^ Black, 355. #^ This criticism of Elizabeth was noted by Elizabeth's early biographers William Camden and John Clapham. For a detailed account of such criticisms and of Elizabeth's "government by illusion", see chapter 8, "The Queen and the People", Haigh, 149–169. #^ Black, 239. #^ Black, 239–245. #^ Haigh, 176. #^ After Essex's downfall, James VI of Scotland referred to Cecil as "king there in effect". Croft, 48. #^ Cecil wrote to James, "The subject itself is so perilous to touch amongst us as it setteth a mark upon his head forever that hatcheth such a bird". Willson, 154. #^ Willson, 154. #^ Willson, 155. #^ Neale, 385. #^ Black, 411. #^ Black, 410–411. #^ Weir, 486. #^ Loades, 100. #^ Willson, 333. #^ Somerset, 726. #^ Strong, 164. #^ Haigh, 170. #^ Weir, 488. #^ Dobson and Watson, 257. #^ Strong, 163–164. #^ Haigh, 175, 182. #^ Dobson and Watson, 258. #^ The age of Elizabeth was redrawn as one of chivalry, epitomised by courtly encounters between the queen and sea-dog "heroes" such as Drake and Raleigh. Some Victorian narratives, such as Raleigh laying his cloak before the queen or presenting her with a potato, remain part of the myth. Dobson and Watson, 258. #^ Haigh, 175. #^ In his preface to the 1952 reprint of Queen Elizabeth I, J. E. Neale observed: "The book was written before such words as "ideological", "fifth column", and "cold war" became current; and it is perhaps as well that they are not there. But the ideas are present, as is the idea of romantic leadership of a nation in peril, because they were present in Elizabethan times". #^ Haigh, 182. #^ Haigh, 183. #^ Black, 408–409. #^ Haigh, 142–147, 174–177. #^ Loades, 46–50. #^ Weir, 487. #^ Hogge, 9–10. #^ The new state religion was condemned at the time in such terms as "a cloaked papistry, or mingle mangle". Somerset, 102. #^ "The problem with the 'Protestant heroine' image was that Elizabeth did not always live up to it. London Protestants were horrified in 1561 when they heard of the plan to get Spanish support for a Dudley marriage by offering concessions on religion, and it took Elizabeth almost a decade to re-establish her Protestant credentials." Haigh, 165. #^ Haigh, 45–46, 177. #^ Black, 14–15. #^ Collinson, 28–29. #^ Williams, 50. #^ Haigh, 42. #^ Somerset, 727. #^ Hogge, 9n. #^ Loades, 1. #^ As Elizabeth's Lord Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon, put it on her behalf to parliament in 1559, the queen "is not, nor ever meaneth to be, so wedded to her own will and fantasy that for the satisfaction thereof she will do anything...to bring any bondage or servitude to her people, or give any just occasion to them of any inward grudge whereby any tumults or stirs might arise as hath done of late days". Starkey, 7. #^ Somerset, 75–76. #^ Edwards, 205. #^ Starkey, 6–7. ==Bibliography== *Black, J. B. The Reign of Elizabeth: 1558–1603. Oxford: Clarendon, (1936) 1945. OCLC 5077207 *Brimacombe, Peter. 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The Herd is a special White House 2012 series covering the obvious and not so obvious names that Mitt Romney may consider for Vice President. Each day, White House 2012 will introduce you to one of the many Republicans which we believe that will at least be considered for the vice presidency by the now inevitable presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.
In addition to biographical information and a brief assessment of each potential nominee and their chances of being selected by Romney, White House 2012′s coverage also includes each potential nominee's voting records, as well as a listing of their public statements and links to their web sites.
Today, in it's final installation of the series, White House 2012 offers a look at Senator John Thune of South Dakota.
South Dakota Senator John Thune
Born: January 7,1961(age 49), Murdo, South Dakota
Spouse(s): Kimberly Thune
Children : Brittany and Larissa
Residence : Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Alma mater: Biola University
Religion: Evangelical Christian
` Political Career :
- Served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Abdnor.
- Was an appointee of President Ronald Reagan to the Small Business Administration.
- Was appointed Railroad Director of South Dakota by Governor George S. Mickelson and served from 1991 to 1993.
- From 1993 and 1996, he worked as a member of the South Dakota Municipal League.
- In 1996, Thune was elected to South Dakota's at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won reelection in 1998 and in 2000 was reelected with over 70% of the vote. Thune supported term limits and promised to serve no more than three terms in the House.
- Keeping his pledge, Thune instead ran for the United States Senate, challenging Senator Tim Johnson in 2002. Democrat ran scandal which saw Party officials pay for on Indian reservations placed the results of the election in doubt. But Thune decided not to mount a legal challenge by filing any objections and accepting a questionable and close loss by 524 votes (0.15%).
- Between 2002 and 2004 Thune worked as a lobbyist for the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad.
- In 2004, he again ran for the Senate, this time challenging incumbent Tom Daschle, at the time the United States Senate Minority Leader and leader of the Senate Democrats. It is rare for for the Party's legislative leaders to lose an election but after overcoming Daschle's early 7 point lead, Thune defeated Daschle by 4,508 votes.
John Thune sits on the following committees:
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
- Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
- Member, Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion
- Senate Committee on Finance
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
- Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
- Senate Committee on the Budget
Thune is an attractive, young, conservative with heartland values that would be a big help to a candidate like Mitt Romney. Yes, I know we have had seemingly similar people who fit that same description, but John Thune is no Dan Quayle. The only drawback in picking Thune is the fact that South Dakota is going to go Republican in the presidential election no matter what and even if the G.O.P. did not have a lock on South Dakota, the benefit that comes with the advantage of Thune being that state's favorite son is a miniscule 3 electoral votes.
But if the basis for chosing a vice presidential running mate is that of someone who he is capable of being President at a moment's notice, than there is no reason for a Republican not pick Thune. He is a solid conservative, not perfect, but solid, and he is well spoken, levelheaded, quite friendly, knowledgable on the issues and his legislative record is one which is rich in common sense solutions that most conservatives and common sense Americans would find quite appealing. Add to that the regional appeal that Thune has and what you have is someone who is an almost perfect vice presidential nominee.
Part of the importance of Thune's Midwest appeal is the neighboring swing state of Iowa, a state President Obama won in 2008.
In 2012, John Thune is much more popular among Iowa voters than is the President. It is a fact that the Romney campaign used quite well after Thune became an early supporter of Mitt Romney and began campaigning with Romney in Iowa during the state's presidential caucus. Thune's regional appeal could help make two typically solid blue states, Minnesota and even Wisconsin, far more competitive than they might be without Thune on the ticket.
Aside from the possible effects that John Thune could have on the electoral college, the two term conservative Senator meets all the basic criteria that Mitt Romney seeks. Most important is Romney's level of comfort in his running mate. Like Romney, John Thune is firm, methodical, deliberative, not abbrassaive, and non-controversial. This makes Thune a a safe choice for Romney among the conservative base that still doubts the depth of Romney's committment to the conservative ideology. Yet at the same time, John Thune lacks the ire of the left that would make him the type of lightning rod for their hatred that others such as Chris Christie or Michelle Bachmann would be. That lack of hatred which is often exhibited fby the left means that the addition of Thune to the G.O.P. ticket will not provide the left with the degree of motivation that would be required to use Thune as a distraction from the issues.
Thune is a productive legislative leader, and a bright youthful, inoffensive, consistently conservative consideration for Vice President and is certainly on Romney's shortlistt. In recent days, Senator Thune has admitted that he has met with Beth Meyers, the woman heading up Romney's search for a running mate, but he has not confirmed whether or not the Romney campaign is still vetting him.
However; I maintain that because of Thune's overall record, his personal attributes, the unlikely acceptance of other individuals who may be up for the job, and the circumstances confronting Romney in the existing political environment, I believe John Thune is probably the person most likely to be picked by Romney. While he may not excite the ticket with a sense of history and diversity because of his color, gender or lack of a Hispanic background, all o which would help bolster the G.O.P.'s much needed support from various blocs of voting groups, he is a competent and reliable selection who can offer a degree of balance that Romney needs in order to keep together his conservative base, motivate fiscal conservatives, and still be able to compete for the pivotal independent votes that will be needed to win the presidency.
Thune was considered a possible presidential candidate and even gave the idea of running for president some serious thought of his own until he decided against it in late spring of 2011. But running for Vice President is a different story, and if asked to run, I really don't see Senator Thune refusing the nomination. Being Romney's running mate will be a no risk proposition for Thune that will produce high yields for his political future. Having been reelected to the Senate in 2010, Thune will not have to give up his senate to run for Vice President and if a Romney-Thune ticket did happen to lose in 2012, Thune will continue to serve in the Senate and he will do so as a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. That scenario dovetails quite well with Thune's support for term limits.
When he served in the House of Representatives, Thune limited himself to three two year terms. Now as a Senator, it is safe to say that he will limit himself to two six year terms. As such, a run for President would be the perfect next step. So for Thune, there is no reason to say "no" if asked to be Mitt Romney's running mate
Thune is a productive legislative leader, who is youthful, bright, inoffensive, consistently conservative, and a good man in his own right. Thune is certainly on Romney's shortlist and if the nomination of the Vice President becomes contentious, John Thune would be the perfect compromise candidate. And for all the right reasons.
- Thune is positioned well to attract independent voters
- Can appeal to younger voters
- Helps Romney in the Midwest, specifically Iowa, Minnesota, and possibly even Wisconsin
- Thune has the capacity to be the articulate and credible attack dog that the G.O.P. will need on the ticket
- Thune was a strong opponent of certain economic recovery and stimulus spending bills in 2008 and early 2009 and subsequently voted against many of those measures
- Thune has played a leading role in formulating energy policy and was instrumental in passing a comprehensive energy bills in 2005 and 2007
- Although Thune now states he is disappointed in the way the money from the first Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008 was spent, Thune did vote for it
- Thune may be vulnerable to attacks based upon distortions of his work as a lobbyist for for the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
- Thune does not help to guarantee Republicans that they will any of the electoral rich states like Ohio or Florida that may be pivotal in the Electoral College.
- Thune's support for earmarks that went to South Dakota will be exploited by the left
Thune is one of the more relatively exciting safe choices that Romney can make. He is a relatively young, fresh political face, with a fairly solid conservative record and he can help Romney appeal to independent voters and voters in several upper Midwest state that Romney could use help in. Since 2011, I have felt that John Thune is Mitt Romney's most likely choice for Vice President. Thune is a perfect fit for Romney in the sense that Thune is a comfortable match for Romney. With names like Rubio and Daniels supposedly out of the running because of their claims to not want the job, unless Romney is prepared to make a bold choice and pick a running mate that could be viewed as a game changer, I believe that Thune is more likely to picked by Romney than other so-called safe choices such as Ohio's Rob Portman or Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty.
While Pawlenty is a solid and safe choice, he has never been very popular and if his own campaign for the Republican presidential nomination proved anything, it is that voters couldn't care less about him. As for Rob Portman, his addition to the ticket does not necessarily guarantee that he will deliver Ohio to the the Republican ticket but it does help tie Romney to the Obama Administration because of Portman's past position as the Director of the Office of management and Budget under Bush. That combined with the longer history of accomplishment that Thune has over Portman in the Senate makes John Thune a vice presidential pick for Romney that has more potential and less baggage than Portman will.
Will Romney pick Thune? I have no idea if that can be answered in the affirmative or the negative but I have a personal sense of things that tells me Romney is leaning towards making John Thune his running mate.
Bill Sponsorship & Co-Sponsorship
Some of Thune's most recently sponsored bills include…
- S. 3288: Black Hills Cemetery Act
- S.Res. 475: A resolution relating to the death of the Honorable E. James Abdnor, former …
- S. 3228: Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012
- S. 2277: National Forest Emergency Response Act
- S. 2242: Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2012
- S. 2221: Preserving America's Family Farms Act
- S. 2213: Respecting States' Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012
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I have been thinking on the issue of the office of an elder and have heard much recently on "lay elders." Is this biblical?
The terms "lay elder" and "ruling elder" are virtually synonymous in Presbyterian and Reformed circles. Other Christian groups may use the terms differently.
The concept of eldership is clearly established in the Bible. The tribal leaders of the nation of Israel were designated "elders." Numbers 11:25 describes how certain of the tribal elders were endued with God's Spirit and "prophesied," that is, gave evidence of being controlled by the Spirit. In this fashion they were to lead the people after the manner of Moses.
In the New Testament the Apostles and their co-workers appointed elders in the churches. In Titus 1:5 the Apostle Paul says, "For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you ..." These elders were charged to "rule" or direct the life of the local congregations.
Some elders were especially gifted in teaching the Word of God and were distinguished from other elders. 1 Timothy 5:17, "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine."
Those who were set apart to "labor in the word" were ultimately given a status separate from the other ruling elders. In The Orthodox Presbyterian Church they are normally called "ministers." "Teaching elder" is another frequently-employed term.
The other elders, who are not charged with preaching and teaching, are considered part of the laity (the people) as over against the clergy (learned ones) who teach the people. This is more of a utilitarian distinction than anything else. In any event "lay elders" are those elders who do not regularly handle the Scriptures in the manner of seminary-trained ministers.
In the Presbyterian churches both ruling and teaching elders are ordained, that is, they are specially set apart for holy duties. We believe in "parity" or equality of the eldership. Sometimes ruling elders do exhort the people from the Word and teaching elders regularly participate in governing the congregation.
The Form of Government of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (X.1) reads as follows:
Christ who has instituted government in his church has furnished some men, beside the ministers of the Word, with gifts for government, and with commission to execute the same when called thereto. Such officers, chosen by the people from among their number, are to join with the ministers in the government of the church, and are properly called ruling elders.
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This homemade costume for girls entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest, and won a special prize in the Most Creative Costume nomination!
A word from Heather, the 'Black Widow Spider' costume creator:
This was #1 of the 13 costumes I made this year for our "Insect" theme.
My 9 year old daughter was wearing it, and when looking for spider costumes online, they all looked too cutesy or girly. (She's my tom-boy!) I also wanted something that she could get in and out of very easily. It never seems to fail, we get ten steps from the house, and she has to go to the restroom!
I found a few things online, but modified them to what I needed her costume to be for her. my instructions are not exactly how I made the costume when I made it. (Hindsight is always 20/20!)
Hopefully I "fixed" any mistakes I made with the instructions. I also made an illustration chart for the steps. If in the instructions you see the words "(See 1, See 2, etc)" please refer to the illustration chart.
NOTE! I used the things I had at home to make this. the only thing I had to buy was the felt, spray adhesive, and glitter, (oh yeah, and a pretty little sequinned headband at the dollar store). If you are planning on making this for yourself or someone else, feel free to use what you have. If you go out and buy the spray foam, it really doesn't make it a cheap costume anymore ... (My husband was not thrilled I used up two cans of the spray foam. apparently he had other more "important" uses for it! :O )
Materials Needed:
1 Can Spray Foam Insulation
Black Felt or Black Fabric
Red Felt or Red Fabric
Spray Adhesive
Zip Ties
2 pieces of Heavy Cardboard or Corrugated Plastic
Black Spray Paint
Velcro Strips or Old Backpack Straps
Old Newspapers
3" Plastic Hose
Start with the legs of the costume first. Measure the arm span of the costume wearer. This will be the length of the spider legs.
Cut the hose to the appropriate length. At this point, you may choose to cover the hose with black felt. Position the hose about two inches apart, then attach to one piece of the heavy cardboard with zip ties. Be sure to keep the "knobs" of the zip ties on the side with the hose and not on the side that will be rubbing on the wearer's back. (See 1.)
If you choose to paint the hose, paint it once you have attached it to the cardboard. Don't worry about the extra cardboard. This will be cut away later.
For the body parts, take the cardboard with the legs attached and draw a circle shape about the width of the costume wearer's back, and from about the shoulders to mid-back. (See 2.)
If you choose to use the back-pack strap method, attach the backpack straps to the side that will be facing the wearer's back, being careful to place the "knobs" on the side away from the wearer's back, and within the circle you drew. You may choose to draw the circle on the side facing the wearer's back to position the straps correctly. (See 3)
Once you have positioned the straps, crumple up some of the newspapers and place in the area on the cardboard over the legs, and slightly smaller than the circle you drew, bounded up a bit to form a bit of a "dome" shape. (See 4)
Take the can of spray foam and spray a line along the outside circle, continuing in circular pattern until the newspapers are covered as well. Don't worry about staying on the lines you drew. This can be fixed later. Set aside.
Take the second sheet of cardboard, and draw a longer oval shape. This will be the "butt" of the spider. You will need to find something to lay this piece over to curve it, or else it will bounce off the person's butt. (See 5)
Repeat the process with the newspapers and the spray foam, and set aside to dry (cure). The drying process can take anywhere from 12 hours to 2 days, depending how much foam was used for the pieces.
Once the pieces have dried (cured), they can be sanded down and shaped.
When you have sanded them to the shape you want them, cut off any excess cardboard away from the pieces, with none sticking out past the foam. Using the spray adhesive, attach either the black felt of black material to each piece.
Cut two triangle out of the red felt or red material and attach to the "butt" of the spider. (See 6)
Black pants and a black shirt will go underneath the completed spider costume.
NOTE: If this costume is being made for a child, Velcro strips may be attached to the child's clothing, and the costume become easily removed without removing all their clothes.
The Velcro strips should be placed on the back of the child's shirt along the top and bottom part of the leg piece. Another strip of Velcro may be placed along the waistband of the child's pants, along the top of the "butt" piece. This will keep the costume from getting ripped apart when the child sits down. Instead, the "butt" will just pop off.
If this costume is being made for an adult, the pieces may be zip-tied together before the foam is added to the cardboard, and may be cut to curve the "backside" of the adult, OR the "butt" piece may be attached with Velcro, dependent on the weight of the piece. (See 7)