Elizabeth I and mary tudor ?

Question

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why was elizabeth I under pressure to mary ?

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Answer 1

Because women in those days were not equal to men. They did not want a woman ruling them, they wanted a king. Mary I (Tudor) married, but the british public (us) didn't want a foreign king, so he never ruled. As a result, they never produced any heirs, meaning that Elizabeth I got the throne, which really bugged her royal counsel. With refusing to marry, Elizabeth made many enemies both in her court and internationally. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I believe Elizabeth and Mary were half-sisters. As Elizabeth was Protestant and Mary was Catholic, a surviving child of either sister could have determined the future religion of England

Answer 3

To produce an heir. Elizabeth was the 5th and last monarch of the Tudor line. The throne passed to her nephew James I on her death he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and was already James VI of Scotland when he came to the English throne.

Answer 4

Mary Tudor was unable to produce an heir that survived infancy. As a Catholic she also refused to to acknowledge her sisters legitimacy. Many Protestants were burned as heretics during her reign.

Eliazabeth was under constant threat of being charged with treason, for which, like her mother, she would have been beheaded.

It was only in the event of her death that Mary acknowledged Elizabeth to be the rightful heir to the throne.

Answer 5

Not only Elizabeth I was forced to marry, every monarch back in the days were forced to marry in order to bare the next generation. This is the most essential duty for a monarch, which is to marry and have children in order to continue the royal bloodline. The most fearful thing for any King is not to have an heir to take the throne. This is the same reason why her father, King Henry VIII divorced Katherine of Aragon and beheaded her mother, Anne Boleny. Either woman gave him his "heir" that he so longed for.

Having a female sitting on the throne made people wary, if she married, she could "co-rule" with her new husband and secure the future bloodline with their offspring.

However, she did just the opposite. She refused to marry because she did not want to share her power with anyone.

Answer 6

Mainly because the "men in power in her Court" wanted a man on the scene and to ensure an heir was produced - tough luck if she had married and only produced a female child like her mother!!!

Answer 7

Several reasons why Elizabeth I was under pressure to marry:  One, because only as a married woman could she produce a heir.  People did not want another civil war to errupt over inheritance squabbles. Two, because her marriage to a French or Spanish nobleman (preferably) would strengthen ties between those countries and create allies. Third, she faced the same gender bias that all women encountered then.  It was considered "unnatural" and out of the natural order of things for a woman to rule over men.  Not having a husband made her unnatural and a source of unease.

Answer 8

Because Mary was plotting to take the throne from Elizabeth.

Answer 9

To produce heirs is the basic answer.  But also in 15th century society, it was considered unnatural for women to rule men.  There was supposed to be a man at the head of everything and so the husband of either woman could rule through her.  Unless, like Mary I's husband, they were so disliked that they couldn't.

I think that Elizabeth, who had seen how people reacted to her sister's husband, and not to mention, her own father's well known brutality against his wives, in paricular her mother and cousin, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, Henry's second and fifth wives respectively, she was understandably nervous about one, picking the right husband, and another, losing her power to some man that may want to eventually get rid of her to rule alone.