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Mary Tudor, Queen Mary I

Mary Tudor, Queen Mary I

Female (18 Feb 1515/6) - 1558

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  • Name Mary Tudor 
    Suffix Queen Mary I 
    Birth (18 Feb 1515/6)  Greenwich Palace Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Portraits
    • Link to Marilee Cody's "Tudor England" website
    _UID 539304CACCDAD711BA22B8E68CB2433572C1 
    Death 17 Nov 1558  [2] 
    Person ID I263  Bourchiers
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Father King Henry Tudor, King Henry VIII, Duke of Cornwall,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace, Greenwich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1547, Whitehall, London, Engand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Catherine of Aragon,   b. 5 Dec 1485, Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid Find all individuals with events at this locationd. (6 Jan 1535/1536), Kimbolton Castle Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 11 Jun 1509  Greyfriars, Greenwich Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • secretly
    • a papal dispensation was given
    Marriage pronounced null 23 May 1533  [3] 
    _UID 4700C4FC09D7D711BA22444553540000DB93 
    Family ID F12  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family King Philip II of Spain Philip of Hapsburg,   b. 21 May 1527   d. 13 Sep 1598 (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jul 1554  Winchester Cathedral Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    _UID 5C9304CACCDAD711BA22B8E68CB243357B51 
    Family ID F177  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary".

      She was the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon who survived to adulthood. Her younger half-brother Edward VI (son of Henry and Jane Seymour) succeeded their father in 1547. When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of religious differences. On his death their first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, was initially proclaimed queen. Mary assembled a force in East Anglia and successfully deposed Jane, who was ultimately beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England. In 1554, Mary married Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556.

      As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother. During her five-year reign, she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Leslie Stephen (editor), Dictionary of National Biography, (67 volumes. London: Smith, Elder. 1885-1903), Volume 36, page 333.

    2. [S4] J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558, (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994), 560.

    3. [S1] Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, The Complete Peerage, (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.), Volume 3, page 442.

    4. [S4] J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558, (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994), 541.