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Elizabeth I
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority.
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See also Elizabethan Era ...more
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Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, labored her whole life to heal the rift between Catholic and Protestant in France. All three of these queens worked as diligently and as astutely as they might to restrain the fratricidal wars of Christian against Christian. What they had to hold up against that violent seismic shift in human sensibili
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― When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
― When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
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Proud Prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request I will unfrock you by God"!
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