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
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
Lady Arbella Stuart
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Lady Arbella Stuart was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. During the reign of James VI and I, she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another cla
Succession to Elizabeth I
…Scots, the "Lennox claim" was generally regarded as consolidated into the "Stuart claim". James VI was the son of two grandchildren of Margaret Tudor. Arbella Stuart, the most serious other contender by the late 16th century, was the daughter of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox's younger son Charles Stuart, 1st…
Lady Arabella Stuart
Arbella Stuart aged 2. circa 1577
Arbella Stuart in 1592, Nicholas Hilliard.
Arbella Stuart