Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603), born Elizabeth Tudor, was the Queen of England and Ireland, reigning from 17 November 1558 until her death. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII by his second wife Anne Boleyn and was the half-sister of Mary I. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor and was succeeded by her nephew James VI of Scotland.

Biography

Seeking to help Elizabeth ascend the throne, the Assassins killed the Templar-affiliated Mary I in 1558. She remained a close ally of the Assassins. Elizabeth came into the possession of an Apple of Eden, which she kept hidden inside a globus cruciger. On 31 December 1600, Elizabeth issued a Royal Charter that allowed the founding of the East India Company.

Elizabeth's court mathematician and consultant John Dee knew of the Apple and its powers. After Elizabeth's death in 1603, Dee sent his former colleague Edward Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Jane Weston a wedding present of the painting Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses, which depicted the monarch wielding the artifact before the Greek gods Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.

Legacy

In 2012, the Assassin Clay Kaczmarek collected details on Elizabeth's Apple while Abstergo Industries held him captive at their Animus Project laboratory in Rome. He then hid the information within the Animus 1.28 in Glyph puzzles for his successor, Desmond Miles, to find. Sometime in early September, Desmond solved the puzzle set titled "Sixty-Four Squares", in which the Apple was revealed to have been one of many held by other heads of state, namely, Napoleon Bonaparte and George Washington.

In October 2016, during the Master Templar Simon Hathaway's search for Jeanne d'Arc's Sword of Eden, he reflected on how history had forgotten his ancestor Gabriel Laxart and scoffed at the idea of the concept of reincarnation, thinking that people who believed they were new incarnations of people always believed they were important figures like Queen Elizabeth or King Arthur.

Behind the scenes

A deleted database entry in Assassin's Creed III for the Apples of Eden revealed that Templars working for Elizabeth sent out an envoy to Masyaf in the final years of the 16th century to find and recover the Apple of Eden from the Library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad:

[...] It eventually passed into the hands of Al Mualim's star pupil, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a Levantine Assassin who unlocked its true power and purpose, then had the good sense to lock it away in a vault, far from greedy hands. But nothing this valuable stays put for long, and in the final years of the 16th century Templars working for Queen Elizabeth of England sent out an envoy to find and recover it.

This apple—Apple number two, to be precise—ultimately made its way into Abstergo's hands in the 20th century, and was the lynchpin of their current plan to subdue and suppress all free thought and action in the world... until they blew the damn thing up in a pretty dodgy experiment. Since that time we learned of the existence of at least five more apples, the sixth of which once belonged to the Italian assassin Ezio Auditore, and which you, Desmond, were kind enough to recover for us. So thanks for that. (and you might wish to make a note of the date—my thanks are few and far between…) [...]

Gallery

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  Elizabeth after the defeat of the Spanish Armada
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  Elizabeth I in Who's In Your Blood?

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II (painting only)
• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (mentioned in Database entry only)
• Assassin's Creed: Heresy (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed film (promotional material only)