New Monarchies

bullet A Brief Outline of Dutch History and the Province of New Netherland
bullet Dutch Classicism:  Amsterdam in the 17c
bullet The Dutch Royal Family
bullet The French Monarchy:  Genealogical Chart of the House of Valois
bullet The Hohenzollerns:  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg/Prussia)
bullet The House of Castile & The House of Aragon:  Genealogical Charts (Spain)
bullet Letters of Philip II of Spain:  1592-1597
bullet The Life & Times of Queen Elizabeth I
bullet Life in Elizabethan England
bullet The Spanish Armada (1)
bullet The Spanish Armada (2)
bullet The Spanish Succession:  Genealogical Chart
bullet Tudor England:  1495-1603
bullet Tudor History
bullet The Tudors

 

New Monarchs Primary Sources

bullet 1558:  Queen Mary I's (Tudor) Will
bullet 1559:  Elizabeth I's "Marriage" Speech to Parliament
bullet 1563:  Accounts, Hilary Term, 1563 Domestic and household accounts of the Court of Star Chamber while sitting at Hertford in Hilary
bullet 1581:  The Dutch Declaration of Independence
bullet 1588:  Spanish Armada Map
bullet 1588:  Queen I Speaks Out Against the Spanish Armada
bullet 1588:  "Sir Francis Drake Vice-Admiral, and the Rear Admirals Hawkins and Frobisher versus the Spanish Armada" - in the newspaper, The English Mercurie (July 23)
bullet 1592-7:  Letters of Philip II of Spain:  1592-1597
bullet 1598:  "A Description of Elizabeth I & Her Court at Greenwich" - Paul Hentzner in Journey into England