What is an event in history that connects to Elizabeth I becoming Queen, and how does it connect?

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What is an event in history that connects to Elizabeth I becoming Queen, and how does it connect?

Answer 1

Elizabeth I stayed resolutely Protestant, primarily because it was politically expedient to do so, plus her mom, Anne Boelyn, was Protestant.  By staying Protestant, she was able to attract the support of Protestants who were alarmed at her half-sister, Mary's, attempts to turn the country back to Catholicism.  Mary was a fervent Catholic, because her mother, Katherine of Aragon, was a devout Catholic and it was one way of maintaining her legitimacy as a child of Henry VIII, who, in trying to annul his marriage to Katherine, would have essentially been cutting Mary out of the line of succession.  

Mary's marriage to Catholic Philip of Spain was not popular, either, and she was not greatly mourned when she died at the relatively young age of 42, probably of ovarian cancer, after only five bloody years on the throne.

Answer 2

Mary's persecution of the protestants which made phillip detest her and want elizabeth which made her queen after Mary's death.

Answer 3

I think davefromlexky is confusing Mary Tudor/Bloody Mary (Mary I) of England with Mary, Queen of Scots who was beheaded.

A connection is the Death of Mary I because that brought Elizabeth I to the throne as Mary was her elder half-sister and Elizabeth was the next in line.

Answer 4

Look up Elizabeth I and Bloody Marry. That will help It is rather in depth the whole your the queen no, now I am the queen, then Elizabeth finally cutting off her own sisters head. I can not explain the whole event here just look it up. It deals with Henry VIII and his divorce and then separation from the Catholic church. Like I said there is a bit to it.

Answer 5

Elizabeth did not cut off her own sisters head.  Her older half-sister Mary was queen before her and was called "Bloody Mary" for her persecution of Protestants.  Mary was a devout Catholic, something that she learned from her mother, Henry VIII's first wife Catherine of Aragon.  Elizabeth gained the throne upon Mary's death.

Answer 6

It was a direct connection.The death of her half sister,Mary Tudor put Elizabeth on the throne.

Answer 7

Elizabeth had a brother, Edward and an elder sister, Mary.

According to the english, in this case Edward is to be king first, then Mary in 1553, then Elizabeth in 1558.