Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a proud member of the

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This is episode 75.

Woohoo, you guys.

You've spent 75 episodes with me. Thank you. So episode 75 is going to finish off the Elizabeth and France unit, the Tudor War with France, a little mini unit I've been doing here. We've been looking at all the different Tudor monarchs and how they they got along with France and we're finally wrapping it up with Elizabeth. A couple of housekeeping things before we

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Englandcast.com. Finally, a credit to Paige for the research for this episode. Thank you, Paige.

You are awesome. So, Elizabeth, when we left off last time, Mary Tudor lost Calais and said that

when you cut her body open, you would find Calais on her heart.

So it's not a great time for England in relationship to France. But we've got Elizabeth coming

up here, and her goal with foreign policy was similar to her grandfather, Henry the 7th,

to try to stay out of foreign wars. She would find herself drawn into engagements through the years,

most famously with the Spanish Armada. But France was also a source of frustration and potential

warfare, especially early on in her reign as they supported the rights of Mary Queen of Scots.

A lot of the tension in her relationship with France was also extended to Catholics in general. And it's

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