After a long period of custody in England, she was tried and executed for treason following her involvement in three plots to assassinate Elizabeth I of England and place herself on the English throne. She was seen as an instrument of removing Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was afraid to kill her, so she kept her in England for 18 years shut up in a castle. The spies working for Elizabeth made up a plot and Mary was executed. She died as a catholic marter. *The defeat of the Invincible Armada 1588 In 1588, King Philip II of Spain sent the Great Armada, an armed fleet, to conquer England. Henry VIII rejected the power of the Pope but Spain remained Catholic and religious and Philip wanted to make England return to the old faith. The second important reason was competition for supremacy in trade and sea power. The Armada anchored at the coastal border area between France and the Spanish Netherlands.
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