This document is a GRADE 9 revision resource for GCSE AQA History students, studying Elizabethan England. It consists of two summary tables about the suitors and advisors which come up in the GCSE AQA History Elizabethan England specification. EXTREMELY HELPFUL REVISION RESOURCE FOR EXAMS!!!
ADVISORS
Name Title Born Background/Character Religion Main Responsibilities in the Privy Died
Council
William Cecil Lord Burghley 1520 Intelligent and hard-working Moderate Relied heavily on Cecil 1598
Member of parliament and part of Edward VI’s Protestant Regularly attended House of
council Commons, the House of Lords
Made secretary of state – 1558
Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester 1533 Spent some of Mary’s reign in Tower of London Puritan Made member of court, 1588
Childhood friend and favorite of Elizabeth Master of Horse
Rumors of a romance Personally, responsible for
Elizabeth’s safety in court
Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Knight 1554 Was poet and soldier Protestant Knighted in 1585 and an MP several 1618
Was imprisoned twice times
Rapidly became favorite of Elizabeth Served as the governor of Jersey
Introduced tobacco and potatoes to England from 1600-1603
Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor 1540 Studied law at oxford Moderate Elected to parliament several times 1591
Impressed Elizabeth with his dancing at court Protestant Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber
and the captain of queen’s
bodyguard
Sir Francis Walsingham Knight 1532 Law at Cambridge Puritan Secretary of State, responsible for 1590
From Norfolk gentry foreign affairs
Ambassador in Paris in early 1570s MP in 1558
Multilingual Privy Council in 1573
Ally of Dudley
Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 1565 Cambridge Protestant Knowledgeable about foreign 1601
Military hero, experienced soldier – fought in affairs
Netherlands, France and Spain Joined Privy council 1593
Favorite of Elizabeth Led rebellion and executed for
Hated the Cecil’s treason in 1601
Always argued with Elizabeth but she always forgave
him.
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