With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown

Benton Rain Patterson

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Editorial: St Martin's Press, 2007

0312348444 / 9780312348441

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Philip II was the most powerful monarch in sixteenth-century Europe, heir to the Hapsburgs and zealous defender of world Catholicism. Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII, who had torn England away from the Church to marry her mother, Anne Boleyn. She was the champion of the Protestant reformed church and determined to thwart Philip's ambition to bring England back to the Roman fold. Philip had briefly been king consort of England while married to Elizabeth's older half sister, Bloody Mary, who burned over 300 Protestants to death and threatened to execute her younger half sister and heiress. Ironically, it was Philip who convinced her to spare Elizabeth's life. After Mary's untimely death, he proposed marriage to his former sister-in-law hoping to build a permanent alliance. She repaid him by a lifetime of hostility that included devastating raids on his treasure ships from the New World by her legendary naval hero, Sir Frances Drake, and culminated in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, one of the defining moments of British history. The title comes from her speech on the eve of that battle.…

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Título
With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown
Autor
Benton Rain Patterson
Editorial
St Martin's Press
Año de publicación
2007
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Very Good
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Hardback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0312348444
ISBN 13
9780312348441

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