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Contents: 0 The Early Years of Queen Mary I 0 Queen Mary I Takes the Throne of England 0 “Bloody Mary”… Relentless Papist and Mass-Murderer 0 Religious policy 0 Foreign policy 0 Commerce and revenue 0 Death 0 Mary’s Failure and Death 0 Legacy 0 Titles, style and arms
Queen Mary I 0 Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England Irelan d from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary". 0 She was the first queen since the 12 th century
Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon
The Early Years of Queen Mary I 0 Mary Grew Up as the only girl 0 She was stripped from her place as princess when she was younger. 0 She knew three different languages(Latin, French, Spanish)
The Early Years of Queen Mary I 0 Mary was then deemed illegitimate and thus deprived for a time of her status as an heir to the throne. 0 Mary refused to recognize her father as head of the church. 0 She eventually agreed to submit to her father and Mary returned to court and was given a household suitable to her position. 0 She was named as heir to the throne after her younger brother Edward, born in 1537.
Queen Mary I Takes the Throne of England 0 Official coronation November 30, 1553. 0 Mary first began to earn her unofficial title of “Bloody Mary” when she had her cousin, Lady Jane Grey, executed to prevent any possible power struggle.
“Bloody Mary”… Relentless Papist and Mass-Murderer 0 The first was John Rogers (a. k. a. “Thomas Matthews”), the printer of the “Matthews-Tyndale Bible”. His execution was followed by the execution of former Archbishop of Canterbury, 0 Thomas Cranmer, who was primarily responsible for the printing of the “Great Bible”. Hundreds more would follow in Mary’s bloody reign of terror. 0 This earned the queen the title of “Bloody Mary”.
“Bloody Mary”… Relentless Papist and Mass-Murderer 0 Her restoration of Catholicism was remarkable in some ways: Where only one bishop, John Fisher of Rochester, had resisted King Henry VIII’s rejection of Roman Catholicism to the point that Henry had him executed; 0 Most of Mary's bishops were more loyal and refused to conform to the restored Protestantism under Elizabeth I, and they died under house arrest.
Bloody Mary 0 280 protestants were burnt : 193 were burnt in London, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Sussex. 1 in the North (Chester), 1 in the West (Exeter), 3 in Wales. 55 women were burnt. q. She also burnt 1 archbishop and 4 other bishops.
0 Mary died when she was 42 because of symptoms that may have indicated disorder, such as a pituitary tumor. She had suffered lactation and lost of her eyesight. 0 Mary I, was an equally rigid Catholic; during her five years on the throne, she persecuted English Protestants and became known as “Bloody Mary” for executing hundreds of religious dissenters. The sister who succeeded her, Elizabeth I, was a compromiser