1. TREATY OF TORDESILLAS

2. ENGLAND AND THE ATLANTIC ERA

3. The New Monarchies: 15c – 16c

4. Characteristics of the New Monarchies
They offered the institution of monarchy as a guarantee of law and order.
They proclaimed that hereditary monarchy was the legitimate form of public power  all should accept this without resistance.
They enlisted the support of the middle class in the towns  tired of the local power of feudal nobles.
They would have to get their monarchies sufficiently organized & their finances into reliable order.

5. Characteristics of the New Monarchies
They would break down the mass of feudal, inherited, customary, or “common” law in which the rights of the feudal classes were entrenched.
The kings would MAKE law, enact it by his own authority, regardless of previous custom or historic liberties  What pleases the prince has the force of law!

6. England  stability under the Tudors
France  consolidation of power.
Spain  unification by marriage.
HR Empire  different model: the cost of decentralization.

7. The Tudors of England

8. The Saga
of the
Tudor Family

9. King Henry VII

10. Margaret Tudor [to Scotland], Henry VIII’s Sister

11. Arthur, Prince of Wales [1500]
Young Henry VIII

12. Young Catherine of Aragon

13. Henry VIII [r ]

14. Mary I [28 years old]

15. Henry VIII’s CHildren
1510 Daughter - died 1511 Son - died 1513 Son - died 1514 Son - died 1516 Mary - survived 1518 Daughter - died 1533 Elizabeth - survived 1534 Son - died 1535 unknown - died 1536 Son - died 1537 Edward - survived

16. Queen Elizabeth I [1546]

17. Henry’s Deathbed

18. Edward VU

19. Edward VU [r ]

20. “Ruled” England from July 10–19, 1553
Lady Jane Grey
“Ruled” England from July 10–19, 1553

21. Queen Mary I or “Bloody Mary” [r. 1553 – 1558]

22. Philip II & Mary Tudor

23. Elizabeth I, Queen at last!r

24. Elizabeth I [1603]

25. Elizabethan Era- Last Tudor
A politique who balanced a personal predilection for Catholic theology with Protestant rule because it made her succession legitimate and pleased her subjects.
She was able to sustain a permanent Protestant settlement in England.
She will never marry and cause a controversy on who should be next… (Horrible Histories)
You need to be able to UNDERSTAND the cultural, religious, Economic, Social, and Political changes DURING HER REIGN!

26. Problems during Elizabethan Era
Foreign
Policy
Problems during Elizabethan Era

27. Map of the Spanish Armada Route
=Decline of Spain…

28. Mary of Scotland’s Parents
James V of Scotland
Mary of Guise

29. Young Mary Stuart

30. Mary, Queen of Scots

31. Mary Stuart in Captivity

32. Execution of Mary of Scotland

33. James I [r ]

34. Great Britain emerged as a richer and more influential nation during the seventeenth century because of Elizabeth
The Scottish Stuart dynasty succeeded to the English throne (though countries were quite separate except for the union of the crowns).
Mary Queen of Scots’ Protestant son, James VI (became James I) becomes King
He authorized “King James” version of the bible in 1611.

35. However…
James and his son Charles I attempted to strengthen the power of the monarchy at the expense of Parliament and believed in the Divine Right of Kings

36. Civil War in England
This led to Civil War in 1641 and the execution of Charles I, the first occasion in modern history when a monarch was put on trial and executed for crimes against his people.
Parliament was largely supported by small landowners, merchants, and Puritans, in London and the South
The King found more support among the high aristocracy, Anglicans, and the North and Wales.