Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) was an English explorer and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. He established the Roanoke colony in Virginia in 1584 and also discovered Guiana. He fell out of favor after marrying one of the Queen's maids of honor and was imprisoned for treason. While imprisoned, he wrote "The History of the World." He was eventually released but later re-arrested and executed for treason in 1618.

1. By: Dylan Wilcox Sir Walter Raleigh

2. His Life Born in 1552 in Hayes Barton in Devonshire and died in 1618 During a time when his father leased Hayes Barton from the Duke family of Otterton. He was half brother to Sir Humphrey and Sir John Gilbert, from his mother's first marriage. He had a brother, Carew, and sister, Margaret. Death by execution, because he committed treason against England, after an attempted suicide in the tower, because he was helping the Spanish after the Death of Queen Elizabeth.

3. Who He Was He was an English Explorer He was a member of the Middle Temple in 1575 Sir Walter Raleigh was a true man of the renaissance and a brilliant poet It was policy of Queen Elizabeth to have several favorites at once and Raleigh was one of them.

4. What He Did North Carolina’s state capital was named Raleigh, named after Sir Walter Raleigh. He’s famous for the discovery of Guiana and he established the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584. During his early life, from 1553 to 1558, Queen Mary I was on the throne.

5. What he did (Growing up) During his early life, from 1553 to 1558, Queen Mary I was on the throne. This was a time when the Roman Catholic church was in favour. Although a large part of the population had previously become Protestants, those who were most open about it were persecuted In 1581, after seeing action on a number of occasions, he became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the first. There is little to confirm the famous story of how he spread his cloak across a puddle so that the Queen could walk over it, except for the cloak included in his coat of arms.

6. More about his background Considering the Queen's evident affection for him, it was not unexpected that she should be displeased with his love affair with one of her Maids of Honour, Bessie , the Queen threw Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower of London. He was released after one of his ships brought back a huge treasure on the captured Spanish Ship “Madre De Dios.” He married Bessie and retired to his manor at Sherborne, Dorset. Here he built Sherborne Castle in 1594.

7. Sir Walter Raleigh in Prison? In 1603 Queen Elizabeth the first died and James the first took the throne. Raleigh was then framed as a member of a plot against the throne and sentenced to life imprisonment Whilst in the Bloody Tower he wrote the "History of the World" ( excerpt ) which was first printed in 1614. It was composed of five volumes but only reached as far as the second Macedonian War in 130 BC.

8. How he died In the Preface to the book Raleigh says "How unfit, and how unworthy a choice I have made of my selfe to undertake a worke of this mixture." He goes on to refer to those who put him in the Tower as "ungentle and uncourteous Readers" and thanks them for putting him there "For had it been otherwise, I should hardly have had the leisure, to have made myself a foole in print". Yet again he was released but was then involved in another expedition against the Spanish. Their influence at court managed to have him re-arrested on his previous charge and he was finally sentenced to be beheaded

9. How he died At his execution in 1618 he asked to see the axe and said "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases." As was common at the time, his head was embalmed and presented to his wife. She apparently carried it with her at all times until she died 29 years later at the age of 82. The head was finally buried with their son (Carew - like Sir Walter, a one-time Governor of Jersey) alongside the body of Sir Walter to the South side of the alter at St. Margaret's Church. This is just next to Westminster Abbey. It was founded in the 12th century and is the parish church of the House of Parliament

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11. Sitations http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/images/uploaded/posts/screen_44282e8d446b6.jpg http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/sir-walter-raleigh.htm http://www.nndb.com/people/106/000049956/ http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MoreImages2/ArmadaPortraitOfQueenElizabeth11588.jpg

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