Catholic attempts on the queen’s life

Elizabeth’s advisors foiled a series of assassination plots

Spain plans an invasion, 1571 The Ridolfi plot – named after the Florentine merchant who acted as the go-between for the Duke of Norfolk, Mary Stuart, Philip II and the pope – was a plan for a Spanish invasion of England and the substitution of Elizabeth with Mary. Roberto Ridolfi was known to the English government, and met with Elizabeth before heading for Rome. The plot was foiled when a courier was arrested at Dover. Norfolk was executed but Mary survived and Ridolfi later emerged as a papal senator. He clearly relished intrigue. Throckmorton’s sorry end, 1583 Francis Throckmorton was the linkman for a plot that might be seen as part of a continuum of intrigues sponsored by the powers of Catholic Europe in the 1580s. The aim, as with the Ridolfi plot,…

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