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Hello!!! I myself is learing about the Tudors, Queen Elizabeth and "Bloody Mary" Mary Tudor Queen of Scots. I am not sure but I know that she died because she comitted treason against her cousin, Queen Elizabeth the First. I don't know if that helps, but I hope it does!!!
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Good Luck,
Kenadie, Oregon
Mary Queen of Scots was not "Bloody Mary", this was a nickname of Mary I. Here are some salients points about Mary Tudor:
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 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 involvement by her half sister, 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
· It is announced that Mary is pregnant in September 1554, but it proves not to be the case.
· Around 300 Protestants burned at the stake for dissenting and being considered heretics (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.
· Phillip returns to England in March 1557.
· Mary announces she is pregnant and goes into confinement in February 1558, but again this proves to be a false alarm.
· Mary died on 17 November 1558 of "dropsy" after reigning since 1553, leaving the succession to her half sister, Elizabeth.
