Elizabethan Foreign Policy

FRANCE

• England & France at war from 1557 - 1559
• French Religious Civil War 1562 - 1598 (Huguenots VS Catholic League) - limited French influence outside of their territory
• Treaty of Hampton Court 1562 - Elizabeth agreed to help Huguenot Henry Navarre (later Henry IV of France) claim the French throne
• Treaty of Troyes 1564 - England promised to stop trying to reclaim French territory
• 1569 - negotiations of marriage between Elizabeth & Duke of Anjou
• Treaty of Blois 1572 - England & France had to support each other from outside attacks
• St Bartholomew's Day Massarce 1572 - massarce of French Huguenots in Paris by Catholics - marked Catholicism as a 'bloody religion'
• 1578 - negotiations of marriage between Elizabeth & Duke of Alencon
• Treaty of Joinville 1584 - alliance between Spain & France - forced England into war with Spain

SCOTLAND

• Auld Alliance between France & Scotland from 14th Century
• John Knox (Calvinist) returned to Scotland in 1559 - increased protestant opposition to Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)
• Doran - Elizabeth was reluctant to help Scottish protestants
• Treaty of Edinburgh 1560 - marked the end of French involvement in Scotland
• 1568 - Mary Stuart fled Scotland for England after her defeat in the Scottish Civil War - she was immediately put…