This monarch's "spymaster", Francis Walsingham, helped to thwart several other attempts to overthrow this ruler including the Throckmorton and Babington Plots.
This monarch's reign saw an attempted invasion of the Netherlands, which culminated in an unsuccessful siege of Zutphen by the Earl of Leicester. This ruler collaborated with John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Cantebury, to enact the Act of Six Articles. This ruler, who was harshly criticized in pamphlet by John Knox, signed the Treaty of Nonsuch and successfully turned back an attack on Ireland at the Battle of Kinsale. This monarch, who faced the revolt of the (*) Hugh O'Neill and the Desmond Rebellion, was excommunicated by Pius V in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis. That bull inspired a Florentine banker and Duke of Norfolk to attempt to depose this leader in the Ridolfi Plot. This monarch's "spymaster", Francis Walsingham, helped to thwart several other attempts to overthrow this ruler including the Throckmorton and Babington Plots. Famously inspiring the British navy upon the advance of the Spanish Armada, for ten points, name this "Virgin Queen" of England from 1558-1603.
This monarch's reign saw an attempted invasion of the Netherlands, which culminated in an unsuccessful siege of Zutphen by the Earl of Leicester.
Elizabeth I