• it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain?
• in 1613, Sir Roger Wilbraham, Elizabeth I's Solicitor-General for Ireland, founded the first almshouses (pictured) in his birthplace, Nantwich in Cheshire?
• an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
• the allegorical Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (pictured) commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
• the Accession Day tilts were jousts held at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical disguises (pictured)?
• the earliest full-length portrait of Elizabeth I by Tudor court painter Steven van der Meulen, was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2007 for £2.6 million, more than twice its expected maximum?
• the Queen's Aid House (pictured) has a plaque commemorating Elizabeth I's aid in rebuilding Nantwich after a fire, the only time she is known to have contributed to such a cause?
• the portraiture of Elizabeth I (pictured) contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen?
• Richard Perceval, who was born at Nailsea Court, deciphered Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth about the Spanish Armada invasion plans?
• The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul (pictured) was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old?
• Robert Brandon, goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London, was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony?
• Nicholas Hilliard (pictured), portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?
• Sir Edward Rogers (pictured) was an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII of England who rose to become Comptroller of the Household to Henry's daughter Elizabeth I?
• Robert Peake the Elder worked in the Office of the Revels under Elizabeth I before being appointed "Serjeant Painter" to James I, a role in which he was responsible for portraits of Prince Henry (pictured)?
• Steven van Herwijck created portrait medals of both Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Elizabeth I of England?
• William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
• Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?
• Queen Elizabeth I of England may have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Boleyn?

Facts on topics related to Elizabeth I of England

Edward VI of England

• Edward VI of England's 1547 Injunctions mandated that a copy of the English translation of the Paraphrases of Erasmus was to be kept in every parish church?
• Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait (pictured) by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
• Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI?
• Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?
• William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?
• when Lady Frances Brandon failed to marry her daughter Lady Jane Grey to Edward VI of England, she plotted instead to raise Jane to the throne by means of a coup d'état in 1553?

Henry VIII of England

• 58 ships (one pictured) of the 16th-century navy of Henry VIII of England were illustrated in the Anthony Roll?
• Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
• Sir Edward Rogers (pictured) was an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII of England who rose to become Comptroller of the Household to Henry's daughter Elizabeth I?
• Elizabeth Barton was executed for high treason in 1534 for prophesying the death of King Henry VIII?
• Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait (pictured) by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
• Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his wives?
• Newark Park, a Tudor hunting lodge in Gloucestershire, was built in 1544 for a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII?
• Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
• Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?
• William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?

James I of England

• Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster, London, is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II?
• Nicholas Hilliard (pictured), portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?
• Robert Peake the Elder worked in the Office of the Revels under Elizabeth I before being appointed "Serjeant Painter" to James I, a role in which he was responsible for portraits of Prince Henry (pictured)?
• The Book of Sports was a 1617 declaration of James I of England listing archery and dancing as permissible on Sundays and that Puritans in Parliament had it publicly burned in 1643?
• the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman?

Charles I of England

• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
• William Marshall produced an engraving (pictured) of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr for the Eikon Basilike, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
• William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
• Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?
• despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
• during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
• during the reign of the English Commonwealth, worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant?
• in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I, was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy, and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London?
• one of Sir Henry Firebrace's escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?

Mary I of England

• Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I (pictured)?
• Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?

English Reformation

• Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
• The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory?
• despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
• on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?

Henry VII of England

• the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold (pictured) was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?

Philip II of Spain

• a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy?
• it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain?

Queen Elizabeth I

• Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia, was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
• the versorium, the world's first electrical device, was invented in 1600 by one of Queen Elizabeth I's physicians?

Mary I of Scotland

• Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?
• as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Puckering was heavily involved in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots?
• the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots?