Queen Elizabeth from the engraving published by Joannes Woutnelius, 1596. The name of the engraver of this plate is unknown. Sir William Stirling Maxwell assigns it to Crispin van de Passe, while Henry Bromley, in his Catalogue of England British Portraits, believes it to be the work of one of the brothers Wierix. Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, and was immortalised by Edmund Spenser as the Faerie Queene. Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the Tudor dynasty (the other Tudor monarchs having been her grandfather Henry VII, her father Henry VIII, her half-brother Edward VI, and her half-sister Mary I (also known as Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary). She reigned for about 45 years, during a period marked by increases in English power and influence worldwide, as well as great religious turmoil within England. 固opFoto