The Pope Who Loved Me: Sixtus V and Elizabeth October 7, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Sixtus V (the last of his name) was a grumpy counter-reformation pope who got mixed up with Philip II’s planned invasion of England: the invincible Armada. However, Sixtus, who hated Philip and saw the Spanish Empire as the greatest obstacle to the extension of his own power, made some strange conditions for lending money to […]
