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Brown, Keith M.

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“…28 Moreover, the queen was present at the 1571 below-mentioned marriage of her kinswoman and maid of honour Elizabeth Hastings to Edward Somerset, lord Herbert, later fourth earl of Worcester. 29 Conversely, James, apart from his cousin Lady Arbella, did not have other significant threats to his position on the throne of England since his line of succession was confirmed through his own children. That said he was unsuccessful in advantageously managing Lady Arbella's marriage just as Elizabeth had failed to match strategically the Grey sisters as chapter five will illustrate.…”

Section: Databasementioning

confidence: 98%

“…28 Appropriated and reinterpreted for use by early modern secular states, potestas ordinate and potestas absoluta were in England and Scotland analogous to plural prerogatives and the royal prerogative, respectively. 29 The monarch's exclusive privileges, whether plural prerogatives or the royal prerogative, recognised the king's or queen's supremacy and "that especial power, pre- eminence, or privilege that the King hath in any kind, over and above other persons," maintaining their position at the top of the hierarchy. 30 What were the powers or rights secured within plural prerogatives and the royal prerogative?…”

Section: Religiopolitical and Legal Backgroundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1571 she married William Parr, marquess of Northampton. See Merton,[45][46]Kinney,ed.,29,117;Rimbault,ed.,160;Salignac,vol. 4, See Rimbault,ed.,160;Merton,232;Kinney,ed.,30,120.…”

Section: Databasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…13 Mauss, 1. 14 Heal,29,30. 15 Kettering," 137. "they also were simultaneously sources of support, interest, and advancement," characterised by "volition and obligation." 16 More specifically, Lorna Barrow has placed gift-giving within the context of a royal marriage in her study of the 1513 wedding of Lady Margaret Tudor to King James IV of Scotland.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…82 Patrick Collinson, Elizabethans (London: Hambledon and London, 2003), 34. 83 For examples, see Peck,"Jacobean Dilemma," 31;idem,Northampton,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]MacCulloch,Suffolk, appointment of officials to naval administration posts, it can also be understood within a broader patronage context. 85 It was important that Elizabeth's or James's efforts at building patron-client bonds benefitted the crown and resulted in loyal service and wider broadcasting of agendas, for example.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Royal Opportunity: Noble Marriages in the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI/I, 1558-1625

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<p>This thesis explores Queen Elizabeth I’s and King James VI/I’s management of and involvement in noble marriages from 1558 to 1625 by merging two methodologies: an analysis of an extensive, custom-made database of 380 noble marriages with an examination of primary sources like state papers, personal correspondence, diaries, and ambassadorial reports. This study demonstrates that “noble-marriage management” was a single but efficient method for the implementation of many facets of early modern rule—this made it an important apparatus of the monarchical office and a significant conduit of power. Illuminated within this thesis are Queen Elizabeth’s and King James’s tactics for handling noble marital alliances which included participation and support, avoidance and opposition. They applied their exclusive crown privileges like plural prerogatives of wards’ and widows’ marriages and in loco parentis rights in attempts to control marital unions and they inaugurated new monarch-noble bonds through their patronage of weddings. They communicated religious, succession, and Anglo-Scottish union policies, brought peace, and cultivated a crown-supportive aristocracy by means of their noble marriage involvement. Both monarchs employed multiple aspects of the royal prerogative to manage marriages which, at times, involved manipulating courts, bypassing Parliament, and prolonging punishments. Elizabeth and James also used the royal prerogative to forge their respective legacies of a Protestant kingdom and a unified England and Scotland. By utilising their exclusive privileges, both monarchs secured the freedom and power to intervene in noble marital alliances which preserved the hierarchical system of monarchy, achieving a pro-monarch balance of power and internal stability. In particular, it was through supportive involvement in marriages that Elizabeth and James perpetuated the patronage system and established all-important monarch-noble connections which upheld royal authority. Monarch-noble links became especially important as parliamentary debates on the legitimacy and use of crown privileges increased in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, exposing both monarchs’ absolutist tendencies.</p>

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Section: Databasementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Religiopolitical and Legal Backgroundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1571 she married William Parr, marquess of Northampton. See Merton,[45][46]Kinney,ed.,29,117;Rimbault,ed.,160;Salignac,vol. 4, See Rimbault,ed.,160;Merton,232;Kinney,ed.,30,120.…”

Section: Databasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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