RULERS OF EUROPE IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I







POPES

1556-1559 Paul IV (Pietro Caraffa)
1559-1565 Pius IV (Gian-Angelo de' Medici)
1565-1572 Pius V (Michele Ghislieri)
1572-1585 Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagno)
1586-1590 Sixtus V (Felix Peretti)
1590-1590 Urban VIII (Giambattista Castagna)
1590-1591 Gregory XIV (Niccolo Sfondrato)
1591-1591 Innocent IX (Gian-Antonio Fachinetto)
1592-1605 Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini)
 
 

SPAIN

Philip II 1556-1598
Philip III 1598-1621

 
HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS

Ferdinand I 1558-1564
Maximilian II 1564-1576
Rudolf II 1576-1612

 
FRANCE

Henry II 1547-1559
Francis II 1559
Charles IX 1560-1574
Henry III 1574 - 1589
Henry IV - 1589-1609
 
 
 

SCOTLAND
Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-1567
James VI 1567-1625
 
 
 

DENMARK AND NORWAY
(Norway was under Danish rule)
1559 Christian III dies
1559 Christian II
1559-1588 Frederick II
1588-1648 Christian IV
 
 

SWEDEN
Gustav Vasa 1523-60
Erik XIV1560-68
Johan III 1568-92
Sigismund 1592-99
Karl IX 1599-1611
 
 

RUSSIA
Ivan IV - 1533-1584
Fyodor I 1584 - 1598
Boris Godunov 1598- 1605
 
 


Elizabethan Europe
 
 
 


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