Really good information about Mary 1 also known as bloody Mary?

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Mary Tudor (Mary I)

· Born 18 February 1516 at Greenwich, England.

· Daughter of Henry VIII (1491 - 1547) and his first wife Catherine of Aragon (1485 - 1536)

· Declared illegitimate when the marriage of her parents broke up.

· Eventually restored to the succession after the Anne Boleyn's fall.

· When her brother Edward VI died in 1553, Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen instead of Mary

· Mary is restored to the throne after the end of Jane Grey's "nine days" rule.

· In 1554, put down the rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Mary is suspicious of Elizabeth.

· Mary imprisons her half sister Elizabeth in the Tower of London (March 1554) for 8 weeks.

· Married Phillip II of Spain on 25 July 1554, to help reinforce the restoration of Catholicism

· Mary announces she is pregnant, but it proves to be a false alarm.

· Hundreds of Protestants burned at the stake for dissenting (hence the title Bloody Mary)

· In 1555 Phillip leaves England and returns to Spain, much to Mary's distress.

· In 1556 England loses its last possession in France: Calais.

· Mary is said to have declared that after her death the words "Phillip" and "Calais" would be found written on her heart.

· Mary died on 17 November 1558, leaving the succession to her half sister, Elizabeth.