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Elizabeth's personal religious convictions have been much debated by scholars. She was a Protestant, but kept Catholic symbols (such as the crucifix), and downplayed the role of sermons in defiance of a key Protestant belief. [53] Elizabeth and her advisers perceived the threat of a Catholic crusade against heretical England.
Mary I of England had died without managing to have her preferred successor and first cousin, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, nominated by parliament.Margaret Douglas was a daughter of Margaret Tudor, and lived to 1578, but became a marginal figure in discussions of the succession to Elizabeth I, who at no point clarified the dynastic issues of the Tudor line. [4]
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (24 June 1532 [note 1] – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.
People executed during the Elizabethan era (1558–1603), under Elizabeth I of England. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Devereux was born on 10 November 1565 [2] [a] at Netherwood near Bromyard, in Herefordshire, the son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, and Lettice Knollys. [3] His maternal great-grandmother Mary Boleyn was a sister of Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, making him a first-cousin-twice-removed of the queen.
Elizabeth and Dudley reportedly remained close until his death in 1588, and when the Queen died 15 years later, his last letter to her was found by her bedside.
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After Mary died, shortly after Mass in the morning, her coronation ring was taken to Elizabeth at Hatfield House. [17] Nicholas Throckmorton is said to have told Elizabeth of her sister's death. [18] According to a poem, [19] he brought a token of another of Mary's rings, a ring with black enamel decoration which was her espousal ring. [20]