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Mary I, Elizabeth's half-sister, became queen in 1553. She reversed the religious innovations introduced by her father and brother. Under Mary's rule, England returned to the Catholic Church and recognised the pope's authority. Mary died in November 1558 without a Catholic heir, leaving the throne to the Protestant Elizabeth. [11]
Angevins or Plantagenets (England) February 1102 1141 10 September 1167 Henry II: 5 March 1133 1154–1189 6 July 1189 He collapsed into shock and fever and eventually died. William I: House of Dunkeld (Scotland) c. 1143 1165–1214 4 December 1214 Natural causes John "Lackland" Monarchs of England and Ireland (England) 24 December 1166 1199–1216
Responding to Pius V's action, Elizabeth I's government passed anti-Roman Catholic decrees in 1571 forbidding anyone from maintaining the jurisdiction of the pope by word, deed or act; requiring use of the Book of Common Prayer in all cathedrals, churches and chapels, and forbidding criticism of it; forbidding the publication of any bull ...
Upon his death, leading politicians proclaimed Mary's and Edward's Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, as queen instead. Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was eventually beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England.
When Queen Mary died childless in November 1558, her half-sister became Queen Elizabeth I. The first task was to settle England's religious conflicts. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement established how the Church of England would worship and how it was to be governed. In essence, the Church was returned to where it stood in 1553 before Edward ...
The Holyrood or Holy Rood is a Christian relic alleged to be part of the True Cross on which Jesus died. The word derives from the Old English rood, meaning a pole and the cross, via Middle English, or the Scots haly ruid ("holy cross"). Several relics venerated as part of the True Cross are known by this name, in England, Ireland and Scotland.
After Penda's death in 655, his son Peada, who was Oswig's son-in-law, became king of the southern Mercians. [126] Peada was killed within a year, with Bede attributing the killing to his wife. [ 126 ] [ 132 ] Two or three years later, there was an uprising led by Mercian elites that put Penda's Christian son Wulfhere on the throne who ruled ...
The Religion Act 1580 or Recusancy Act 1680 (23 Eliz. 1.c. 1) was an act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation. [1]The act made it high treason to persuade English subjects to withdraw their allegiance to the Queen, or from the Church of England to Rome, or to promise obedience to a foreign authority.