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Elisabeth I. von England

Geburtstag: 7. September 1533
Todesdatum: 24. März 1603
Andere Namen:Regina Elisabetta I d'Inghilterra, Elisabeth I.

Elisabeth I., englisch Elizabeth I., eigentlich Elizabeth Tudor, auch bekannt unter den Namen The Virgin Queen, The Maiden Queen , Gloriana oder Good Queen Bess , war von 1558 bis an ihr Lebensende Königin von England.

Elisabeth war die Tochter von Heinrich VIII. und das fünfte und letzte Mitglied der Tudor-Dynastie auf dem englischen Thron. Ihre Mutter war Anne Boleyn.

Ihre Regierungszeit als Königin von England und Irland von 1558 bis 1603 ist heute als Elisabethanisches Zeitalter bekannt. In dieser Zeit erhielt die Anglikanische Kirche ihre endgültige Ausprägung, entstanden zahlreiche künstlerische Werke von Dramatikern wie William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe oder Ben Jonson, aber auch Lyrik mit Sonetten und Liedgedichten, wurden die modernen Wissenschaften mit Francis Bacon begründet und die Welt von Francis Drake umsegelt. Die erste englische Kolonie in Amerika wurde in dieser Zeit gegründet und zu ihren Ehren Virginia benannt.

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„Kleiner Mann, kleiner Mann, das Wort »müssen« ziemt sich nicht, wenn man mit Fürsten spricht.“

— Elisabeth I. von England
zu Robert Cecil, nachdem er zu ihr sagte, sie müsse sich nun ins Bett begeben. Letzte Worte, 24. März 1603, Neale, J. E. Queen Elisabeth, London 1942

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„There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.“

— Elizabeth I of England

„God may forgive you, but I never can.“

— Elizabeth I of England
To the Countess of Nottingham, as quoted in The History of England Under the House of Tudor (1759) by David Hume, Vol. II, Ch. 7.

„I will make you shorter by the head.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Response to Parliament (October 1566).

„I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too,“

— Elizabeth I of England
Context: I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

„Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Response to Parliament (October 1566).

„For even our enemies hold our nation resolute and valiant, which though they will not outwardly show, they invariably know. And whensoever the malice of our enemies should cause them to make any attempt against us, I doubt not but we shall have the greatest glory, God fighting for those that truly serve Him with the justness of their quarrel.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Speech to Parliament (10 April 1593), quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (The University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 332.

„I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.“

— Elizabeth I of England
"On Monsieur's Departure" (February 1582).

„Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.“

— Elizabeth I of England

„Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Response to Parliament (October 1566).

„Rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns.“

— Elizabeth I of England

„Master Tyrwhit and others have told me that there goeth rumors abroad which be greatly both against mine honor and honesty, which above all other things I esteem, which be these: that I am in the Tower and with child by my lord admiral. My lord, these are shameful slanders, for the which, besides the great desire I have to see the king’s majesty, I shall most heartily desire your lordship that I may come to the court after your first determination, that I may show myself there as I am. Written in haste from Hatfield this 28 of January. Your assured friend to my little power, Elizabeth“

— Elizabeth I of England
Letter to Edward Seymour, Lord Protector (28 January 1549), quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (The University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 24.

„I would not open windows into men's souls.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Oral tradition, possibly originating in a letter drafted for her by Francis Bacon. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nkJad0EYVxIC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.co,/books?id=0yA-MQLwOtEC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false

„Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Written with a diamond on her window at Woodstock (1555), published in Acts and Monuments (1563) by John Foxe.

„Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your late father were here he would never dare utter such a word.“

— Elizabeth I of England
To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed.

„If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.“

— Elizabeth I of England
Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England (1662) by Thomas Fuller