Why is Queen Elizabeth I so famous?

Question

Why is Queen Elizabeth I so famous?

Answer 1

She is the richest woman in the world.

Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I was loved by the peasants and many people back then actually tried to overthrow Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I's half sister, so Queen Elizabeth I could get to the throne. Queen Elizabeth I reigned for a long time, like fifty years. She suceeded on the throne without a king for the whole time. She was never married. She also brought out the artists of that era. Queen Elizabeth I ruled not only England but also Ireland during her reign. She let protestants come back to England after Queen Mary I had everyone be catholic, be burned at the stake, or leave the country. I think she was one of the best queens in the history!  

Answer 3

Her reign simply proved that you do not need a man to rule a country properly with success.

Answer 4

Beside all those profound facts, she was also one hot looking babe

Answer 5

She was by far the strongest and most successful of a small number of queens who ruled in their own right in Renaissance Europe.  A cultured and well educated woman, with a sharp wit and a sharper political sense, she steered England through a difficult and dangerous century.

She was romanticised by the poets of her time, and by the dramatists of later years, who made much of her mysterious personal life,  but made little of the difficult and sometimes painful compromise solutions she adopted in politics in order to keep - as another king is supposed to have famously said of kingship - 'the crown on her head, and her head on her shoulders, and her **** on the throne.'

Answer 6

She came to the throne at a pivotal point in English history. She's not quite as "good" as history has made her out to be and she's been romanticized quite a bit. Part of her success was just plain luck and surrounding herself with the right people (like Walsingham who ran an extensive spy network). However, during her reign England went from a country that was broke and a pawn essentially between France & Spain to a powerhouse of its own.  

In addition, the fact that she was an unmarried queen was very notable. The  fact that she didn't marry gave her additional influence as both "King and Queen."

Answer 7

Short answer:

The measures taken by her father began to feed through.

Long answer:

Technical advancement & Independent Scholarship.

The "King's Schools" set up in every county by Henry VIII, to replace Catholic priests (newly unavailable) with a secular Civil Service had massively expanded access to education. A far higher mobilisation of talent took place. Universities like Oxford were no longer subject to Ecclesiastic oversight, and began a culture of independent academic thought and inquiry. Academics noted that their Independence was an indirect consequence of action taken by the Queen. History smiles on Elizabeth I because Elizabeth I smiled on Historians.

Secular Culture

The new secular culture produced writers and musicians not limited by law to Religious subject matter. Artistic license focused on its Benefactorix in the Cult or Oriana, singing the praises of the Queen.

Taxes

Far greater rent money from lands seized by the Crown during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and tax from Towns Chartered by Henry VIII, made the Queen wealthy enough to run a professional Civil Service, extending Royal Justice, good governance, and meticulous tax gathering to the entire country.

English Army

By banning private armies, Elizabeth I could afford to run the only small Professional well equipped Army in the Kingdom, instead of relying on peasant levies in time of War. This made revolt impossible. Greater National Security allowed greater freedom of expression, since a Professional Army makes it much more difficult for sedition to become revolution.

English Naval Power

She could afford a new professional trained well-organised technically advanced properly provisioned fighting Navy. The English fleet fighting the Armada had standard caliber naval artillery manned by experienced naval gunners, meaning any gun on the ship could fire any cannon ball on the ship at a rate of twice a minute. The Spanish Armada had quickly manufactured non-standard caliber guns of variable quality, few professional Fighting Navy Sailors, almost no trained gunners, and used non-standard land artillery. If they fired, they may only fire once, since the recoil on two wheeled land artillery gun carriage may wreak the gun, the ship, or possibly even the crew. Once their hand-crafted cannon balls were used up, no other cannon balls would fit.

Colonisation

Virginia was named for Elizabeth I, giving a clue to the level of colonisation and expansion taking place under her reign. A number of other colonies in the West Indies with their resulting increase in Maritime Trade, wealth, taxes, and conflict with the Spanish, raised the Queen's profile.

The Beginning of the Modern Era

A Queen reigning for 50 years was extremely unusual at the time. Educated, intelligent, consistent, relatively enlightened rule, produced an era of Stability and Continuity, which allowed Prosperity. Her long reign coincides with an increasingly evident transition (coincident with the whole Tudor Dynasty), between Medieval and Modern sensibilities, characterized by; the secularisation of society; hugely increased access to education and opportunity; a secular urban culture; Aristocrats no longer having the right or ability to exercise Force Majeur with Private Armies; the extension of Rule of Law; Colonisation of the New World re-energising the Old World; a nascent English Empire; intellectual freedom in Academia leading to technical advances; and widespread prosperity.

Answer 8

She was one of the most successful monarchs in British History. She ruled for more than forty years and during that time she led England into a very prosperous and stable period.

She was remarkably intelligent and secured the safety of Englands borders by coquetting the Kings and Princes of all potential threats to the kingdom. She said that she was married to England and she truly was, she sacrificed her own happiness by never marrying/pronouncing an heir because both could potentially lead to war, civil and European.

Plus she led England through the Armada, and was a patriot for protestantism. She was just one of the most beloved Monarchs to ever rule, she truly served the people.

Answer 9

Sure Elizabeth I is the daughter of Henry VIII and the infamous unlucky Anne Boleyn, the younger sister of Bloody Mary, Mary I of England but Elizabeth should be remembered in her own right. Elizabeth I was a queen who "was married to her country" as they say. Queen Elizabeth defeated the "Invincible" Spanish Armada and brought peace to England. Her older Catholic sister Mary I had persecuted and burned at the stake any English people who pronounced that they were not Catholic, but Protestant. Elizabeth I made sure those burnings ceased. She ruled for 45 years, when literature and the arts flourished, and people revered Good Queen Bess.

Answer 10

as history is written by winners and we know elizabeth as successful therefore she was a winner

put very simply

I could go on and on but if your interest has already been roused look into her life yourself and draw your own conclusions

don't rely on films and tv programmes as costume dramas to be your only knowledge

Answer 11

she reigned fi'ty friggin plus yrs. n brought out the best artrists/writers i.e. shakespeare was in her time/recitingpoems at her feet + in her time empire of england had spread; hope i answerd ur q =p  

Answer 12

CORRECTION  

Bitchfully Infamous

Answer 13

She's famous but not as famous as Catherine the Great..