Did Bloody Mary Deserve
Did Mary I deserve to be known as Bloody Mary?
Mary I was the queen of England and Wales from 1553 to 1558. She was born in 1516 and died in 1558 aged 42. Mary was the daughter of Henry VIII and the catholic Catherine of Aragon. Soon after she became queen, on the death of her half-brother, Edward VI, she married Philip II of Spain. She hoped he would help her make England Catholic again, as she was determined to stamp out Protestantism belief. During her short reign over 300 Protestants were burnt at the stake because the queen considered them heretics (for not accepting Catholic teaching). Mary was a sick woman, and she died after a reign of only five years. She was succeeded to the throne by Elizabeth I.
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In terms of the number of people that were executed within her reign her father Henry VIII was worse. It was the method of execution she chose in the horrible burnings which earned her the title Bloody Mary. She gave the accused the choice to return to what she believed as the only true faith which is often not mentioned in recounts of her life. The heretics who were burned had refused to change and so she had them burnt at the stake for heresy as she believed that she was burning their sins away As a devote Catholic it must have been very upsetting for her to see the humiliation her mother was put through with the divorce and have her country turned from what she considered to be the true faith and probably making her a very bitter woman. Her father’s divorce from her mother, Catherine of Aragon, also resulted in making Mary illegitimate and so denying her the right to take the throne when her father died. When Mary tried to fight for Catherine, Henry had her shut up in some miserable and uncomfortable houses. Henry also denied her the right to marry many different suitors. She had to wait until she was 37 before she was able to marry, an age considered very old to be married in those days as conceiving a child, an heir, would be and was proven to be very difficult. So one might say that how she behaved when she finally had the power was due to how she had been treated in her young adult life by her own
Mary I was the queen of England and Wales from 1553 to 1558. She was born in 1516 and died in 1558 aged 42. Mary was the daughter of Henry VIII and the catholic Catherine of Aragon. Soon after she became queen, on the death of her half-brother, Edward VI, she married Philip II of Spain. She hoped he would help her make England Catholic again, as she was determined to stamp out Protestantism belief. During her short reign over 300 Protestants were burnt at the stake because the queen considered them heretics (for not accepting Catholic teaching). Mary was a sick woman, and she died after a reign of only five years. She was succeeded to the throne by Elizabeth I.
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In terms of the number of people that were executed within her reign her father Henry VIII was worse. It was the method of execution she chose in the horrible burnings which earned her the title Bloody Mary. She gave the accused the choice to return to what she believed as the only true faith which is often not mentioned in recounts of her life. The heretics who were burned had refused to change and so she had them burnt at the stake for heresy as she believed that she was burning their sins away As a devote Catholic it must have been very upsetting for her to see the humiliation her mother was put through with the divorce and have her country turned from what she considered to be the true faith and probably making her a very bitter woman. Her father’s divorce from her mother, Catherine of Aragon, also resulted in making Mary illegitimate and so denying her the right to take the throne when her father died. When Mary tried to fight for Catherine, Henry had her shut up in some miserable and uncomfortable houses. Henry also denied her the right to marry many different suitors. She had to wait until she was 37 before she was able to marry, an age considered very old to be married in those days as conceiving a child, an heir, would be and was proven to be very difficult. So one might say that how she behaved when she finally had the power was due to how she had been treated in her young adult life by her own