Talk:Elizabeth I

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A small point

queen elizabterht was a queen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.82.130.86 (talk) 03:26, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

"By the time her formal education ended in 1550, she was the best educated woman of her generation" This is a wildly sweeping statement and should not be stated as an outright fact. I suggest something along the lines of the following as an amendment: "It has been suggested by the biographer David Loades that by the time her formal education ended in 1550, Elizabeth was the best educated woman of her generation."Ðœð (talk) 04:47, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

any reference to the insertion of the number I?

The British practice has been not to use I unless someone else comes along with that name. This queen Elizabeth was retroactively given the I when another Elizabeth became queen in 1952. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 21:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Error in date of Mary's death

Early in the article, Mary is said to have died in 1568. Later in the article, she is said to have been imprisoned for 19 years with a date of death of (I believe) 1586. Whether or not I have the exact dates correct, it appears the first mention of her dying is incorrect.

76.115.237.207 (talk) 05:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC) Helix Fairweather 2/26/2012

I presume the Mary you are referring to is Mary, Queen of Scots. The date of her death (8 February 1587) is correctly given in the article.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Languages

"[Elizabeth] possessed nine languages so thoroughly that each appeared to be her native tongue ... five of these were the languages of peoples governed by her: \bootyhole, Welsh, gogo, Scottish ... and Irish." Letter from the Venetian ambassador in London, 1603. (reference - Williams, Derek R., A Strange and Unquenchable Race: Cornwall and the Cornish in quotations, Truran, 2007 - p19)

On Catherine Champernowne's page it says that she taught Elizabeth four languages - French, Flemish, Italian and Spanish.(this is found in a number of books, for example Alison Weir, The Children of Henry VIII, Random House, 1997)

Maybe there should be a section on her education, but for the minute I'll just add this info to the article. Bodrugan (talk) 15:27, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

What did the Venetian ambassador say were the other 4 languages? Otherwise, this appears to be synthesis of two different sources. The statement that Elizabeth governed Scots can be misunderstood. Are you absolutely certain that "Scottish" to the Venetian means Gaelic? I find that highly dubious. DrKiernan (talk) 16:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

As I suspected, it was synthesis: the other 4 according to Scaramelli are Latin, French, Spanish and Italian[1]. DrKiernan (talk) 16:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. I've just checked Stoyle and he doesn't give the other four. Any idea of what was meant by Scottish? Bodrugan (talk) 16:46, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Tentatively suggesting Lallans, but I can't really see why she would need it (unlike her courtiers, after the succession of James!), or why the ambassador would think it a separate tongue. (Pace any users of Lallans reading this, of course.) --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:20, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I think it's more likely to mean Scots, since that was the language of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Scottish government. I've put that as the link. There are some sources at Scots language#Etymology indicating that in the 16th century Scottish meant Lowland Scots and Irish meant Gaelic. DrKiernan (talk) 17:27, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

2 Picture Requests, small changes.

As i saw, that there was no statue picture of Elizabeth in the Legacy section. I request for my adding of the statue in St Dunstan-in-the-West in the Legacy Section. Small change, that's all i ask.

Statue of Elizabeth I at the Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West London

Also, for a new Portrait change instead of the Darnley Portrait. I was thinking of portrait in Jesus College, in Oxford, as for a new change of taste of Elizabethan.

Elizabeth c. 1590. Portrait hangs in the hall of Jesus College, Oxford.

Small requests, and that's all i hope to improve the page :) --Archchinook (talk) 03:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

I have reverted these edits as they deleted a large quantity of text. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Category

Hello, just letting people know that [Category:People of the Tudor period] now has 3000 articles, many of which have only been edited by one or two people. If anyone with knowledge of this period could help, they'd be very welcome. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 19:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Small grammatical correction proposed.

In the introduction, the article says that "One of her first moves as queen was the establishing of an English Protestant church". I propose that this be changed to "One of her first moves as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church. --I,E ^{• Wouldst thou speak?} 13:26, 15 May 2012 (UTC)