Elizabeth I of England reigned in England.
Elizabeth I of England . It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir to continue the Tudor line . The Elizabethan era is the epoch in English history marked by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 -- 1603 ) . House of Tudor . Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms , including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland ( later the Kingdom of Ireland ) from 1485 until 1603 , with five monarchs in that period .