Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential succes
The Earl of Huntingdon
Detail from the Vaughan Porch of Leicester Cathedral. The Earl of Huntingdon is 3rd from the right
Succession to Elizabeth I
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The succession to Elizabeth I, the childless queen of England and Ireland, was an open question from her accession in 1558 to her death in 1603, when the crown passed to James VI of Scotland, an event
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
…an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to Elizabeth I. He hotly opposed the scheme to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Duke of Norfolk, and was entrusted by Elizabeth to see that the…
Allegorical painting of the crown passing from Elizabeth I to James I, by Paul Delaroche (1828)
Title page from 1703, English translation of a Latin work of Sir Thomas Craig, a reply to the Conference about the next Succession to the Crown of England (1595) of Robert Persons on the succession to Elizabeth I