Information | Name etc |
“hotter sort of Protestants” who disliked the Elizabethan Settlement | |
Biggest rebellion of Elizabeth’s reign, in 1569 | |
What the Pope did to Elizabeth in 1570, in the Bull Regnans in Excelsis | |
1571 assassination plot against Elizabeth | |
The only duke in England, executed in 1572 | |
Master of the Queen’s Horse and (allegedly) Elizabeth’s lover | |
Earl executed after the 1569 uprising | |
Sea-dog who became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world, 1577-1580 | |
Assassination plot of 1583 | |
Assassination plot of 1586, which led to the arrest, trial and execution of Mary Stuart | |
Castle in Northamptonshire where Mary Stuart was executed | |
Name given to the correspondence which supplied the evidence against Mary Stuart at her trial | |
Leader of the Dutch rebels, assassinated in 1584 | |
Group of Protestant nobles who swore to avenge the Queen’s death, should Elizabeth be assassinated | |
The Spanish fleet, which tried to invade England in 1588 | |
Commander of the English fleet in 1588 | |
Battle in the English Channel between the English and Spanish fleets | |
Commander of the Spanish army in the Netherlands | |
Spanish commander of the Armada | |
Elizabethan name for a vagrant | |
Became Elizabeth’s Chief Secretary in Elizabeth’s last years, replacing his father | |
Robert Dudley’s stepson, who was executed for treason in 1601 | |
The Bard of Avon, England’s greatest playwright | |
London’s best-known theatre | |
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