During the Renaissance area, many different people were taking a stand for different things that they believed in. One of these main people in history was Queen Elizabeth I. Being moved because she wanted to have complete rule over her country and not wanting a man rule over her, Elizabeth I “inherited a bankrupt nation, torn by religious discard, a weakened pawn between the great powers of France and Spain” was able to peace England back together, one peace at a time. By taking a stand against marriage when she was the queen of England, Queen Elizabeth I started a new stand in women's history and influenced more woman to take a stand later in history. Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 in Greenwich, United Kingdom. Her parents were …show more content…
In the beginning, she took a stand right away to change the religion back to the protestant religion that the rulers before her had completely messed up. To start off, she switched the England religion to protestant because that was the faith that she grew up with after her mother had died when she was 3. Her half sister, Mary lived with her since she was born and also was catholic. In later years, also when Elizabeth was queen, from switching England to the Protestant religion, were less fights until her death in 1603. Many of the people who didn’t change to the Protestant religion were Catholic and were not fans of the Queen. Many of them tried to plot against her including Mary Queen of Scots. Mary Queen of Scots was not a big fan of her and many times tried to plot and have troops assassinations. Later, Queen Elizabeth signed a report of Mary Queen of Scots death on February 8, 1587. Secondly, she wanted to not marry because of various of reasons that she took a stand for. One reason she took a stand was because she wanted to and was able to take so much more power over all men a women at a time where “women were inferior to men”, Caption ‘Elizabeth on Being a Woman’, line 4. One example of this is that she once responded to a Frenchman who commented on her ability to speak six languages besides English by saying, “It is no …show more content…
When this first happened, Elizabeth denied, because she still didn’t want a marriage, and also because she wanted to still live after giving birth, since she was 45. The doctors said that it would be ok for her health, and she agreed to meet him on August 17, 1579. Soon, they became very fond of each other.The couple negotiated for 3 years, but by then, Francois demanded money and entitlements, and Elizabeth started to not like him anymore. By then, the marriage was off. Francois left in February 1582 and never returned.One other thing that happened was that in Elizabeth’s later time period, she was tightening her grip for the religion in England. The catholics suffered a lot as Elizabeth became less lenient. As Elizabeth continued to order Protestantism in England, the catholics stayed within the country because they enjoyed a resurgence in their faith. In the 1570s, more and more catholics grew as well. Even with the protestants, if they didn’t follow everything that she wanted them to, she got very angry. To punish some of them and show what she would do to them, she took two of the Puritans, or radical protestants, and hung them alive to be burned. This was the most extreme punishment that Elizabeth that ever