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    Elizabeth Tudor

    Birth: 9-7

    Death: 3-24

    Nickname: Queen of England

Biography

Elizabeth I was the daughter of King Henry the 8th and Anne Boleyn. She was imprisoned by her half-sister Mary. She became Queen of England in 1558. In 1588 the English defeated the Spanish Armada while she was Queen. One of her first actions as Queen was to establish an English Protestant church.She had her rival Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned and executed. She never married or had children.

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Biography: 
Elizabeth I was the daughter of King Henry the 8th and Anne Boleyn. She was imprisoned by her half-sister Mary. She became Queen of England in 1558. In 1588 the English defeated the Spanish Armada while she was Queen. One of her first actions as Queen was to establish an English Protestant church.She had her rival Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned and executed. She never married or had children.
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Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title: 
Elizabeth I: The Outcast who Became England's Queen
Author(s) or Editor(s): 
Simon Adams
Publisher Location: 
Washington
Publisher Name: 
National Geographic Books
Year: 
2008
Citation Notes: 
https://books.google.com/books?id=c1hJxma-bWMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=elizabeth+tudor+biography&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF0q-_rp3UAhXKRyYKHbzpATU4FBDoAQghMAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Ancestry.com
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Citation Notes: 
Ancestry.com. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–20, 22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922.
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http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Cje202&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=elizabeth&gsfn_x=0&msbdy_x=1&msbdy=1533&msddy=1603&msddy_x=1&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=1&MSV=0&uidh=if4&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=20827&
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Ancestry.com
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Citation Notes: 
Ancestry.com. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–20, 22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922.