Elisabeða I Engla Cwen

Elisabeða I (seo wæs þæs 7. Haligmonþes þæs 1533 geboren – and seo forþferde þæs 24. Hreþmōnþes þæs 1603. geares) wæs Engla Cwen and Ira Cwen of þæm 17. Blotmonþes þæs 1558. geares oð hire deaþe in 1603. Eac het man hie Fæmne Cwen, Gloriana, oððe Bess seo Gode Cwen, Elisabeða wæs sēo fīfte and endemeste ƿealdend þæs Tudor Hus.

Heanriges VIII dohtor wæs heo, ac hire modor, Anne Cwen wæs beheafoded healf þridde wintras æfter Elisabeðe cenning, and se Witangemot asægde Elisabeða docincel. Hire brodor, Eadweard VI, becwæþ se cynedom to Iane Grey Hlæford, þy ascerde he his sweostre ut þæs æftergengnesse. His ierfegewrit forwearp man, and in 1558 Elisabeða feng to rice æfter hire sweostor, þære Romeallicum Maria I, in hwæs rice hæfde Elisabeða gebeon geseted in clomme for nea an wintre on fæcnunge of swicdom.

Elisabeða agann to wealdenne be godum ræde"Ic myne to rihtene ealle mine dæda be godum wite and ræde." Elisabeðe forma gemæþel swa Cwen, Hæþfeld Hus, 20 Blotmonaþ 1558. Loades, 35., and hie behogode on rædboranwerod, hwærof se fyrmest mann wæs Willelm Cecil, Burglea Þegn. An hire firstan dæda swa Cwen wæs to staðolienne þa Englisce Oncwedende cirice, hwærof weard hie Heafodreca. Þes Elisabeðisca Æfæstnes Seht bad fæst þurh hire cynedom and wæs todæges Angelcirice cennung.

Næfre æwnede Elisabeða, oððæt ðe man hit gebasnade and se Witangemot hie bād. Manig witan hæbbað gecneated hire gerad for þissum. Swa weax Elisabeða ieldre weard hie mære for hire mægþhade, and begangol weax ymbe hire þe manig begollen in þisra daga gelicnessum, bewlatungum, and writtum.

In hire leodƿearde wæs Elisabeða gemætor þonne hire fæder and sibbe.Starkey, 5. An hire cwida wæs "video et taceo" ("Ic seo and secge naht").Neale, 386.

Elisabeða næs butan fahmannum.  Forðæm ðe heo wæs Oncwedend, se Spena cyning and se Papa sohtedon to foreastreccenne hie.  Manig gereonunge wæron in þæm gearum. Earfoþsæligor wæs Elisabeðe mage, Maria I Scotta Cwen, hwa ricsode on Scottum.  Maria Cwen bespræc eac þa Engla cynehelm.  In þære Cirice Edniwunge on Scottum afliemede Maria on Englas; Elisabeða hæftede hie in 1568 and beheafoded hie in 1587.

Elisabeða wæs war in utlendiscum þingum.  Hie geaf sum lytel fultum to cempungum in þara Niðerlandum, Franclande and Irlande.  Noþylæs, sige ofer þǣm Speonisce Insweogfleot in 1588 wyhtede hire naman swa swa sigedryhtna selost, feðanfrea in fwohte þe man heoldeþ biþ an þara Engla mæsta siga.

Elisabeða brohtede hire leodwearde strengþu and lufu on folce in drefrum ielde.  Æfter þara scortan cynedomum Elisabeðe breþer and sweostor, hire 44 wintra on þæm cynestole geafon fæstnes for þæm rice and hulpon to scieppenne Angelþeod on Engla myndum.Starkey, 5.

Elisabeðe rices endmestan dagas hæfdon sar in golde and guðe and manige weardon werig.  Tweontig wintrum æfter hire deaþ, halgode manig Elisabeðe swa wealdend annes gyldenre ielde, and þes þoht abideð on Englum. Elisabeðe cynedom het man sēo Elisabeðyld, hwære lof sceawþ in þǣm Engliscum plegcræft se þah in þæm gearum, mid plegwyrtan swa swa Willelm Shakespeare and Christophorus Marlowe, and in þære hwatan sæfarunge þara Engliscum beorna swa swa Francis Drake Cniht.

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