Phillip II Spain: The Great Power 1556-98 Part 3
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- Phillip II Spain: The Great Power 1556-98 England
- 1554-58 Marries Mary Tudor (nominally King of Eng.)
- 1561- Stops Pope excommunicating Elizabeth
- Seeks Elizabeth's hand in marriage
- Keeps Mary Queen of Scots off throne (she had close ties to the French)
- 1567-80s relations more hostile as Eng. assumes role of Defender of European Protestantism
- 1567- Alva in Neth.- Elizabeth beilives threat to Eng. security
- 1568- English sieze Spanish ships on way to Neth.
- Eng. fund rebels in Neth. (money/mercenaries)
- Sir Francis Drake attacks Spanish ships
- Mid 1580s
- Total collapse of Anglo-Spanish relations
- England's piracy in West-Indies
- 1595- Phillip seizes all English ships from Spanish ports
- Treaty of Nonesuch- formal alliance w/ English+ Dutch
- Elizabeth responds to Spanish success under Duke of Parma
- Lends money to troops
- Believed Neth. a stepping stone to Spanish invasion
- Response to Phillips alliance w/ FRench Cath. League in 1584 (ToJoinville)
- Response to Assassination of William of Orange
- Phillip orders Armada to be built
- 1588 Aims Of Armada
- 1) Restore Catholicism in Eng.
- 2) End Eng. piracy
- 3) Break alliance w/ ENg. and Dutch
- Armada= disaster, Further Armadas (1596-97 both inaffective
- 1588 Aims Of Armada
- 1587- Mary Queen of Scots executed
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