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Elizabeth I Tudor, Queen of England & Ireland (1533 – 1603) Eponym of the Elizabethan Age

Post author By Steven Wood Collins
Post date January 20, 2022
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Richmond Palace from SW. 1765 engraving by James Basire, “based on an ancient drawing”. Essentially as built by Henry VII in 1501. The outbuilding with pointed roof to the rear left (north) is the Great Kitchen. The chapel-like building adjoining the palace at the north (left) is the Great Hall

Historians have long regarded her reign as the Golden Age of the English Renaissance. English art, particularly dramatic arts, flourished during the Elizabethan period of English history.

While married to Queen Mary I, Philip II of Spain (1527 – 1598, ) was co-regent monarch of England. After her death, he plotted to seize the English monarchy from Elizabeth by force. In the end, she prevailed in the titanic tussle by wrecking the Spanish Armada along with his credibility at his royal court in Madrid. Lord High Admiral Charles Howard (1536 – 1624) commanded the English navy that led to the rout.

There are several credible theories that the Virgin Queen surreptitiously gave birth to at least three sons (possibly Earl Edward de Vere, Sir Francis Bacon, and Earl Robert Devereux) and at least one daughter (Elinor de Lacy).

The plot of the film Anonymous (2011) also posits that the incestuous relationship between Elizabeth and Edward de Vere produced Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573 – 1624), or Prince Henry IX Tudor. If legitimized, his heirs would have had a claim to the throne. Curiously, before her death, Elizabeth changed the laws of monarchal succession to allow that to happen, but, of course, it never did.

Queen Elizabeth’s mitochondrial DNA lineage is unparalleled in the history of royalty and eclipses her father’s royal YDNA heritage by a wide margin in comparison. For instance, she possessed the exactly same mtDNA as Saint Bertha of the Franks 541 – 616, 2nd great-granddaughter of Clovis Meroving, 1st King of All Franks (466 – 511), wife of King Saint Aethelbert I of Kent (522 – 615).

Queen Elizabeth, who executed twenty-two peers of the realm during her reign (slightly less than half the body count that her father beheaded during his) condemned Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk to death for his principal role in the plot to assassinate her and install Mary, Queen of Scots, as her replacement and his wife. He was beheaded on Tower Hill on 2 June 1572. Both his cousin, Catherine Howard, the short-lived Queen consort of England, and his father, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, met a similar fate during her father’s reign. All were agnatic descendants of Duke of Norfolk John Howard, KG (1421 – 1485).

Constructed by her grandfather, King Henry VII, Elizabeth died in Richmond Palace, which was at its time represented the most ostentatious degenerative display of European royal extravagance ever built during the Middle Ages. Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) sold the contents and destroyed most of the palace in his campaign to rid England of every visible trace of royalty.

The eponym of the U.S. State of Virginia., the “Virgin Queen” is ranked #94 in Hart’s Most Influential People in History – Top 500 List (125).

By Steven Wood Collins

I spent most of my life unaware of my ancestral heritage. Sure, I knew of the personal history of my more immediate relatives; but beyond that, I never had any inkling as to my ancestral heritage. Then one day many years ago my sister said to me, “I sometimes wonder about our family background.” And so my quest to discover our genealogical roots commenced.

I started building my family tree with the very basic relationships, going back in time from my grandparents, one ancestor at a time. That initial effort proved to be the hardest part of the pursuit, mainly due to my lack of expertise as a novice genealogical researcher. As I gained familiarity with the databases and how to efficiently mine them, my progress gained ever-increasing momentum. Today, The Patricians! tree (Ancestry.com) contains nearly 120,000 individuals, stretching over 135 generations, 5,800 of which are my direct ancestors in a genealogical sense.

During this trek back in time, I encountered fascinating figures in both history and obscurity. This blog contains many stories about their genealogical relationship to me (and many of you). By far and away, as a student of history, the historically obscure individuals are of particular interest to me. I cite Baron “Blue Beard” Montmorency-Laval de Rais (1405 – 1440) as an example of a historically maligned personage whose real contribution to history, as both a playwright and hero of France, has yet to be properly recognized. Another example is Earl Edward de Vere (1550 – 1604), who’s yet to gain widespread recognition as the actual author of the body of literary work wrongly ascribed to William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).

My life-long interest in international economics and finance continues unabated. I primarily demonstrate this professional involvement as a contributor to the Long Room, the members-only international finance professionals' forum hosted by the Financial Times of London.

I'm an avid recreational scuba diver who enjoys traveling to exotic dive sites. My love of the sea and marine life gives me an unbounded appreciation and support of “green” issues, especially those devoted to the conservation of endangered species and coral reefs.

He continually posts results of his personal genealogical research to his Goodreads Authors Blog. Entitled The Patricians - The Ancestral Heritage of Steven Wood Collins, the work represents thousand of hours of his research efforts and related commentary.

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