![]() As the legend goes, Hobbes was born prematurely when his mother heard the news of the incoming invasion. ![]() Though the Spanish invasion never came to fruition, news of the incoming armada terrified the English populace. The two Germanic powers had also undermined Spanish interests in the Americas. Elizabeth had allied herself with the Dutch – Protestant natives of a realm the Habsburgs had their eyes on. 1558-1603) who had consolidated the volatile English Reformation of her father King Henry VIII by solidifying Protestantism as the state religion.Ĭatholic Spain, controlled by the Habsburgs, was aiming to invade England. England was under the stewardship of Queen Elizabeth I (r. Thomas Hobbes was born in Wiltshire, England, on April 5, 1588, the very year of the Spanish Armada. 16th century, via Royal Museums Greenwich ![]() Thomas Hobbes in His Early Years English Ships and the Spanish Armada, artist unknown, c. ![]()
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