I Elizabeth Biography
September 7, 1533
Greenwich, England
March 24, 1603
England
Queen of England
"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves…"
Elizabeth I.
Elizabeth I was queen of England and Ireland for forty-five years. During her reign she preserved stability in a nation divided by political and religious dissension, and she maintained the authority of the monarchy (government headed by one ruler) against the growing pressures of Parliament (British law-making body). Educated as a humanist, she supported the Protestant religion in England. (Humanism was a movement devoted to reviving the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, which gave rise to the Renaissance. Protestantism is a Christian religion that resulted from efforts to reform the Roman Catholic Church.) Elizabeth was not an active patron of...
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