Does queen Mary 1 deserve the title bloody?

Answer 1

Her reign certainly included several incidents that appear to be personal acts of the misuse of power that ended in violent deaths. Yes, fully deserved! During Mary's five-year reign (1553-1558) 350 people were burnt at the stake for heresy - that is, for not being Roman Catholics. The whole campaign was evil. For example, just as a heavily pregnant woman was about to be burnt, she began to give birth. The execution was postponed till the baby was born; then the woman was taken back to the stake and fire was lit. 'Who will look after the baby?' asked someone. The sherriff picked up the newly born baby and threw it on to the fire. In answer to the first question, it can be argued both ways, she certainly persecuted a great number of Protestants, but also the large majority 800, she had exiled. also the Propaganda of the Protestants is the real reason she has achieved this name: for instance Foxes book of Martyrs is the second most published book after The Bible. The actual number of persecutions for the time was fairly low for instance in Spain 2000 people at least were burnt at the stake for Heresy.

Answer 2

yes ! because she killed so many people just because of there religion :@ no because being queen was probably very difficult in those times, she was trying to do the right thing in her mind by solving the problem the in a bad way, the only way she knew of. She was trying to prove a point, so that if anyone else were to do something bad, they would maybe think twice about the consequences.

Answer 3

In a way she did and in a way she didn't, she did deserve it because:

• She burnt many Protestants at the stake just because they practiced a different religion from her.
• She lost Calais, the last town that England had control of on the continent.
• She was overall a bit of a bad Queen.

These are the reasons why she could have just been misunderstood:

• She was treated badly as a child (neglected by her father and wasn't allowed to see her mother.)
• She thought that she was pregnant but then found out that it was a terrible sickness instead (which probably made her really upset.)
• Her husband kept on leaving her to go back to Spain.
• Her husband didn't like her and found her unattractive.
• When she burnt the Protestants at the stake, she actually thought that she was doing the right thing and that, just before they died, they would be able to see the error of their ways and would change and be sent to heaven.

There are lots of other reasons but these are probably the main ones.

Mary's supposed ruthlessness needs to be viewed relatively. For example she burnt nearly 300 religious dissenters at the steak, but in the Spanish Inquisition there was a total of over 1080 executions.

I would say that 'Bloody' Mary has come from the later protestant propaganda from Elizabeth. She would not be the first victim of the Tudor propaganda. Richard III's reputation suffered severely after Henry Tudor's usurption of the throne, and then again with Shakespeare's portrayal in the play Richard III.

Answer 4

King Henry VIII broke England from the Catholic Church because he wanted a Protestant nation. When he died, King Edward VI followed and then Lady Jane Grey after him. Both were strong Protestants. The Mary had had Jane killed and took the throne. Mary was Catholic and very "religious". She was determined to make England a Catholic country again so she had about 300 Protestants burned at the stake during her 5 year reign.

Answer 5

There are two answers according to the legends. Yes, because she killed people for not listening and obeying her. No, because she was betrayed by her father or sister and so she killed people for that to get revenge.

But if you ask me honestly I don't really care, but my answer would be yes.

Answer 6

Because Mary I was an extremely devout Catholic and she burned about 300 "heretics," Protestants who refused to convert to her religion, at the stake, killing them and earning her the nickname.

Answer 7

Its because she burned over 300 protestants for not swapping their religion to Catholicism ( she even burned infants )

Answer 8

She killed anybody who didn't like or do her religion. Therefor, she got her name as "Bloody Mary". She killed hundreds of people.