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The Tudors (III): Elizabeth

The Tudor dynasty , as we have seen in both The Tudors (I): Arrival to the Throne and The Tudors (II): Henry VIII, was a dynasty that despite governing a period not very Extensive, from 1485 to 1603 , it can be said that it was the dynasties that caused the most changes in the future of the kingdom of England.Enrique VIII, confronted the Pope and the Church, creating one of his own The king was the maximum representative.It is during this period when England decides to explore American territories, becoming part of the distribution of the territory of the new world.To end this trilogy, we will dedicate this chapter to The Tudors (III): Elizabeth , or as we know her in Spain Isabel I , the Virgin Queen, last Queen of the Tudor House.

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The Tudors (III): Elizabeth | Background

Enrique VIII lived obsessed with having a son son , remember that his first wife, the Spanish Catalina de Aragon, had got offspring but was a child, Maria .

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Queen Catherine of Aragon.First wife of Henry VIII

When Enrique rejected the queen for the impossibility of giving her a son, she also broke with the Catholic church, creating a new church, the Anglican Church.This allowed her to repudiate Catherine and marry with one of the ladies of this company, Ana Bolena.

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The Second Wife Ana Bolena

With the birth of Isabel , daughter of Ana Bolena and Henry VIII, Princess Maria, daughter of her previous marriage, would be declared illegitimate and out of any inheritance law.Becoming Elizabeth, the new princess of England.

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Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and mother of his only son.Eduardo

Soon Enrique fell in love again, this time from Jane Seymour , Queen's company lady Ana Bolena.Ana was beheaded accused of false adultery, so that she could marry Jane.Jane died 12 days after the birth of elunico son son of Henry VIII, Edudardo .Now the heir would be Eduardo, so Princess Isabel, became Lady Isabel, as happened to her stepsister Maria, losing the inheritance rights.

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Ana de Cleves-Fourth marriage that lasted a very short time

The fourth wife Ana de Cleves , a German noble very little graceful and that already wanted to divorce the same day of the wedding, even more when among the bridesmaids of Ana de Cleves, was the beautiful Catalina Howard , who was also cousin of the spoiled Ana Bolena.

Enrique divorced from the German noblewoman Ana de Cleves and married Catalina Howard, but this Marriage would not last long, but Catalina would suffer the same fate as her cousin Ana, when she was discovered with one of the King's men.

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Fifth wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard was repudiated and convicted of adultery

After the decapitation of Catherine, Enrique already ill, married Catalina Parr , who worked as a wonderful nurse with the king, managed to convince the king to return to include her daughters Maria and Isabel, inside of inheritance rights, ensuring the dynasty at the death of King Henry.

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Catalina Parr, last wife of Henry VIII

The Tudors (III): Elizabeth | King Eduardo (1547-1553)

Eduardo inherits the throne at the death of his father, reigning with the name of Eduardo VI .He is in charge of polishing the new religion that his father had created.He also holds the title of having been the First Protestant English King .Study with the best teachers of the moment, standing out for his intelligence.

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Henry VIII points to his son and successor Edward VI.

Eduardo was not a child who was very healthy, he was a weak and sickly that I always rule tutored by 16 people.Prince Eduardo died at age 15, leaving as heir to the throne Juana Gray , niece granddaughter of Henry VIII.

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Eduardo VI

Maria e Isabel were again excluded, the rights should fall on Maria, but the Catholic condition of this, clashed radically with the new church that was being formed, so I am ruled out.

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Juana Gray queen of England for a week

Juana Gray remained in power only one week, when Maria arrived in London , it is clear that the people did not love Juana, but Maria.

The Tudors (III): Elizabeth | Maria Tudor (1516-1558)

Maria rose to the throne as Maria I, daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon, therefore she was granddaughter of the Catholic Monarchs Maria had lived confined with her mother for many years, who started her in a fervent faith in the Catholic Church.

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Mary I of England

Of the first issues I dealt with was the return of the Kingdom of England to Catholicism and to submit to the spiritual designs of Rome.I continue to the Anglican church arriving the Inquisition to judge and condemn at the stake more than 300 Anglican priests. This fact caused it to go down in history as Blody Mari or Maria la Sanguinaria.

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The Inquisici On I judge and condemn more than 300 priests at the stake.Fact that cost her the appellation of Mary the Bloodthirsty

Her obsession with getting married and being able to give an heir to the crown led her to seek a husband for all the European courts.In 1554, he married the young prince Felipe de Espana, who reigned under the name of Felipe II.Choosing Felipe obeyed possible alliances, but Maria was Queen of England and consort of Spain and Philip was consort of the Kingdom of England and King of the Kingdom of Spain.

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Portrait of Titian who was taught to Maria and who was lost in love

Before her wishes to be a mother, she suffered different "pregnancies", which were not despite suffering part of the inconvenience that these cause, it is now known that possibly the queen suffered some type of tumor in the ovaries, reasons why she never got being a mother.

Queen Maria stayed much longer from her homeland than in Spain, she was Queen of England and it was there where she should be , while her husband had an entire Empire in both Europe and America to rule.

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Queen Maria passed away in 1558, without offspring, leaving her dynamic rights to the only Tudor alive, Isabel the daughter of Henry VIII and Ana Bolena.

The Tudors (III): Elizabeth | Isabel I (1533-1603)

Isabel I or Elizabeth I , rose to the throne of England and Ireland at the death of her stepsister Maria I, in 1558.She was laultima representative, fifth and last monarch of the Tudor Dynasty. Kingdom from 1558 until his death.

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Isabel, unlike her stepsister, was a Protestant, then the first step she took as soon as she reached the throne was to restore the Protestant Church, which would be her maximum authority.

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Isabel I impulse the culture.John Dee performs an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I of England

Isabel was a queen who devoted herself entirely to the politics of her country.I reject all the requests of the English Parliament, to get married, something that was expected of a queen was to grant an heir to the crown, but Isabel never married.

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Queen Elizabeth I, had more 2000 dressed in her wardrobe

As the years went by and the queen began to age, Queen Isabel began to gain more fame the fact of not having married than the policies she could carry out, knowing her as the Virgin Queen , that's how I get to literature, painting and even popular songs.

Foreign Policy

In her foreign policy , rejected the wedding claims of Felipe II, and widow of Queen Maria, but still maintained a somewhat cautious relationship with the Spanish king.France and Scotland had always maintained a relationship of cooperation, while France, in continuous wars with Spain, was also one of England's historical enemies.

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The situation between Spain and England was gradually becoming insufferable, the constant incursions of English privateers into the Spanish territories of America, the attack on the Spanish galleons, the desire of the Kingdom of England to get territories in the new continent , made these relationships a polvorin that exploded.

The Invincible Navy-The War of England-Spain.

The war between England and Spain is book, practically ruining both countries and causing the loss of one of the most advanced fleets that existed so far, a fleet that was called Invincible, prepared to cross the Atlantic but not for a sea as rough as the one that bathed the English coasts, its heavier ships were quickly pushed towards the coastal rocks, destroying practically the entire fleet.

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Battle on the English Channel.Invincible Navy

The goal of overthrowing the English Protestant queen for Catholicism to return to the English kingdom, it was the excuse used to go to war with England, a war that practically ruined the two countries.The result was the loss of practically the entire army, but for Isabel supposed the peace of mind of knowing that Spanish thirds would not attempt a new invasion.

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They discover the remains of an invincible Navy ship

The queen's health was always very good, rarely ill but an old age and according to her friendships died, the queen began to suffer depressive processes, little by little her health deteriorated until the dawn of March 24, 1 603, the queen dies.

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Isabel at the end of her life

Isabel never spoke about her succession although the desire of Cecil, advisor to the queen, was to look for a candidate with dynastic rights .That candidate was found in James of Scotland, who, with the help of Cecil's advice, got the approval of the Queen, rising to the throne as James VI of Scotland.

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Tomb of Isabel I, curiously Isabel and Maria I of England are buried next to each other of the other.

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