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Queen Elizabeth the First

QUEEN ELIZABETH I

1533 - 1603

Queen Elizabeth I is considered the most prominent ruler of Britain throughout history. It began in the era of its long rule, which lasted about forty-five years, the economic prosperity and the literary and scientific revival that led to the rise of Britain to the first rank among the maritime countries in the world.

Queen Elizabeth lived in a period when the British kings were not just figureheads, and therefore she is rightfully qualified to be honored with the achievements of the golden age in Britain.

Queen Elizabeth was born in Greenwich in 1533 in England. Her father was King Henry VIII, who introduced religious reform to England. Her mother was Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. Her mother Anne Boleyn was beheaded when Elizabeth was three years old. Legitimacy, because they do not consider Henry VIII's divorce from his first wife legitimate, and despite this, I was brought up with an excellent upbringing and gained a great deal of culture.

When her father died, she was thirteen years old, followed by his son Edward VI, then his daughter Mary, both of whom were supporters of Catholicism and the supremacy of the Pope. Protestants were persecuted and about 300 Protestants were killed during their reign. When Queen Mary died in 1558, the twenty-fifth-year-old Elizabeth took over the throne.

The most important problem she faced was the bitter religious divisions within England. I have dealt with this problem firmly and severely. It declared that Anglicanism is the official religion of Britain. This satisfied the moderate Protestants. As for the Puritans, they wanted a more comprehensive and radical reform.

As for the Pope and the Catholics, they were never satisfied with her to the extent that the Pope declared (depriving her) and isolated her and then shed her blood, but the British people supported her because the age of subordination to the Pope had passed and passed without return. Against him in the Netherlands, so Elizabeth helped the Netherlands because the Dutch revolutionaries were mostly Protestants, so it was necessary to clash between England and Spain.

King Philip of Spain prepared a huge naval fleet called the Armada, which means that it cannot be defeated, but the English sailors were more efficient than the Spanish sailors, and the British ships were better armed and able to fight. Europe .

Elizabeth did not marry and did not name her crown prince. She used to hate naming him the crown prince for fear that this would lead to plots against her. Fortunately for England, Elizabeth lived to be seventy years old. And this long time. Britain has avoided many tremors and coups, especially religious ones.

Elizabeth was very intelligent, political, cautious, and conservative, and she hated wars and bloodshed, and like her father, she maintained a balance between her and Parliament, as she ruled with Parliament more than she was fighting against it.

She did not like marriage, but she did not hate men. On the contrary, she loved talking to men and enjoying their company.

On her deathbed, she chose James VI, King of Scotland, as her successor. This work made England and Scotland a unified state, but this choice had its drawbacks. Because both James and his son, Charles I, after him, were very far away in their individualism and their love of controlling the English taste of the people, and thus the civil war began during the reign of Charles I and ended with his killing.