Notes 9/27- More Henry and Anne Boleyn.

• Anne was killed with charges of adultery and witchcraft
• She had affairs with many men. 
• the bile was restricted in English. 
• Cromwell was killed for trying to form an alliance with a Lutheran priest. 
• Henry marries Jane Seymour and she gives birth to Edward,  but she dies in childbirth. 
• Before he dies, he re-legitimatizes Mary and Elizabeth. 
• Henry died in 1547
• Stained glass and paintings that were religious were attacked with chisels. Basically, they were all taken down and destroyed. 
• Edward VI is now king of England. 
• Edward died in 1553, childless. 
• Mary now took the throne. 
• (Mary is catholic)
• And if Mary dies, Elizabeth, the protestant sister, would become queen. 
• Mary marries Phillip of Spain.
  
• Mary tries to restore Christianity to England. 
• She burns anyone who would not become catholic. 
• Mary died childless so Elizabeth became queen. 

Some info on Mary:

• She was actually raised outside of England
• She grew up strictly Catholic. 
• She had a half brother, but he was raised protestant. 
• She was always something of an outcast in English society. 
• When she becomes queen, she basically undoes everything that has been done by Edward. 
• They repaint the churches and bring back in catholic art.
• She leads a campaign against what she considers heretics. 
• Her alliances are with catholic monarchs, especially in Spain. 
• She takes a castle in Scotland and becomes known as the Queen of Scots. 
• Their is a lot of confusion surrounding the end of her reign and the beginning of Elizabeth's. 
• Elizabeth had a lot more public support than Mary did. 
• finally convinced that Mary is undermining England, she is pushed out and Elizabeth is brought in. She is executed for treason against England. 

Elizabeth:

• She reinstates the things that her father and brother did. 
• Catholicism is banished again. 
• Spain is where the pope invests a lot of his wealth and influence because they are very Catholic. The pope is going to influence Spain to try and attack England in a war, and England will ultimately prevail. 
• Elizabeth I reigns for a very long time. Her reign is known for its peace, prosperity, the rise of culture, and a real rise of a sense of English-ness that is intertwined with Protestantism. 
• This is the age of Shakespeare. 
• It was an age of exploration and adventure.