Catherine De Medici And Elizabeth I

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Catherine De Medici and Elizabeth I of Tudor were both powerful and well-known women, rulers/advisors. However, they were viewed by their people very differently and had a different impact on their state. Elizabeth was a wise Queen who sparked an age of prosperity known as the Elizabethan age. Catherine de Medici although not a Queen because Salic laws only allowed males to rule, still had a major impact in France by being the advisor of her three sons all of who were kings. Both Elizabeth and Catherine were judged for being women, but that just add on to other struggles they faced. Catherine De Medici had to worry about noble who wanted to take the throne from her sons. There were many attempts against Catherine either trying to kill or ruin