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    Why Did Mary I Fail Essay

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    Many people believe that Mary Tudor was successful in restoring Catholicism in England; on the other hand people may say that she completely failed in trying to restore it. I think that Mary mostly failed because she was successful at turning some people catholic however there were those other people who believed priests should marry and that churches did not need to be that elaborate to be important. There are many ways that Mary may have failed or succeeded, it could be due to: religious…

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    Huguenot prince, Henry of Navarre. Most of these nobles died, but Henry survived. Henry of Navarre Descended from the popular medieval king Louis IX, Henry was robust, athletic, and handsome. In 1589, when both Catherine and her last son died, Prince Henry inherited the throne. He became Henry IV, the first king of the Bourbon dynasty in France. As king, he showed himself to be decisive, fearless in battle, and a clever politician. Many Catholics, including the people of Paris, opposed Henry.…

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    The Man Who Left a Huge Impact; Peter the Great Peter I, the second-crowned czar of Russia, was the most efficient ruler of Russia. Also known as Peter the Great, he died February 8, 1725. Peter ruled from May 7, 1682 until November 2, 1721. Peter is the son of Alexis of Russia and Natalya Naryshkina. In 1689, Peter married his first wife, chosen by his mother, Eudoxia Lopukhina, however after nine years, Peter decided that he really was not in love with his wife, and he got divorced. Peter had…

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    Henry the VIII, king of England, desperately desired to have an heir to the throne of England. After his brother’s death, he married his brother’s wife, Catherine of Aragon. Catherine had a baby girl, but she never produced a boy. Henry became weary of Catherine and petitioned the pope for permission to end his marriage. The pope refused. After reading some of the reformers writings on the abuses of the Catholic Church and the corrupt practices, he decided that he too would break away from…

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    queen that accomplished many things and changed life for many people. Elizabeth Tudor was a very intelligent child. First of all Elizabeth was born on September 7th, 1533 in Greenwich, England. Her parents were Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. She had about six different mothers (Queen Elizabeth I Biography). Her father, Henry VIII beheaded her real mother in 1536 because he believed that she was involved with treason and adultery and he married Jane Seymour (Elizabeth I and Her Court 15)In 1537 Jane…

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    Henry 4 Protagonist

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    of Shakespeare’s play Henry the Fourth, Part One. The play’s protagonist seems to be unclear and thus many critics have drawn their own conclusions. Anne Marie McNamara explains her point of view in her essay Henry IV: The King as Protagonist. While McNamara claims that King Henry IV is the protagonist of the play, Prince Hal is the true protagonist because a major portion of the play focuses on the idea of Prince Hal becoming king. In the first scene of the play King Henry IV indirectly…

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    Cleopatra VII By: Ashleigh Hatfield Cleopatra: Cleopatra was born 69 B.C in Alexandria, Egypt. When she was eighteen years old, her father died, leaving her to rule Egypt. Because Egyptian tradition held that a woman needed a male consort to rule. Her twelve-year old brother,Ptolemy XIII, was ceremonially married to her. Cleopatra soon dropped his name from all official documents, so she could rule alone.She died August 12, 30 B.C.To this day,…

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    Louis 9V: The Sun King

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    as a dominant European power. In his final decades as King there were several wars in France that had depleted the resources they had and the mass withdrawal of the Protestant pop after the revocation of Edict of Nantes. Another King for France was Henry IV who was a Protestant and converted to a Catholic and…

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    Charles V Religion

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    Emperor Charles V was a Spanish ruler and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The painting is of Charles V after his victory at the battle of Muhlberg which won him the Schmalkaldic War, (“Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547)” Encyclopedia.com). Emperor Charles seeked to unite Europe under Roman Catholic but with the rising numbers of Protestants he declared war on Protestantism. Charles V was a failure not only because he failed to unite Europe but because he tried to use religion to control and unite…

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    Queen. Her cousin, and Queen of England, Elizabeth I was reluctant to order the execution of Mary, as she was concerned that there would be dire consequences. The consequences were dire, but not nearly as bad as Elizabeth imagined they would be. The results of the execution impacted on the lives of the English people in many ways. Mary Stuart, or Mary I of Scotland, fled her home country of Scotland in 1568, in search of the help of her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. However, she was not met…

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