id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3530 Tudor period - Wikipedia .html text/html 10163 1133 69 Henry VII, founder of the House of Tudor, became King of England by defeating King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the culmination of the Wars of the Roses. Historians often depict Elizabeth's reign as the golden age in English history in terms of political, social and cultural development, and in comparison with Continental Europe.[54][55] Calling her "Gloriana" and using the symbol of Britannia starting in 1572, marked the Elizabethan age as a renaissance that inspired national pride through classical ideals, international expansion, and naval triumph over the hated and feared Spanish.[56] It disrupted the North of England in 1536 protesting the religious reforms of Henry VIII, his Dissolution of the Monasteries and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances.[65] M. The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors, 1547–1603 (2nd ed 2014) wide-ranging survey of social and economic history ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3530.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3530.txt