Religion and Conversion
As a child, Anne learned from her grandmother “a high self esteem and affection for Catholik Religion… great compassion of sick, or otherwise afflicted persons… and a great kindness of the Society of Jesus”. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, laws against Catholicism increased and resulted in harsh punishment by Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled the Protestant Monarch. But despite those laws, both Anne converted to Catholicism in 1582. She was converted at the hands of a Marian priest in her Arundel Castle in Sussex. Once word got out about her conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism, Queen Elizabeth I showed strong disapproval and Anne was put under house arrest in the home of Sir Thomas Shirley. While under house arrest in Shirley’s home for one whole year, Anne gave birth to her first child, Elizabeth in 1583.
After Anne was released, she reunited with Philip. In 1584, Philip decided to follow in his wife’s footsteps and convert to Roman Catholicism as well. After Queen Elizabeth 1 heard of this information, she ordered Philip to house arrest, just like she did to Anne. However, unlike his wife, Philip tried to escape from his ordered of house arrest and flee to France in 1585. In his attempt to escape, he was caught at sea and held as prisoner in the London Tower. He was condemned to indefinite imprisonment, in addition to a fine of 10,000 pounds. After this, the Queen would not allow Anne to live in London any longer, so she moved to a rental house in Romford, Essex. There, she gave birth to her second child, Thomas Howard, the future 14th Earl of Arundel. Unfortunately, Philip was never able to meet his first and only son because he died in the Tower of London on October 19, 1595.
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