Mary I of England, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mary I of England

regina d'Inghilterra e d'Irlanda

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1516

Place of Birth: Greenwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1558

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Mary I of England

  • Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was the queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.
  • She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII.
  • She restored, to the Church, some of the property taken from it in the previous two reigns.
  • She was not able to legislate to force those who, at that time, held property which had been plundered from the Catholic Church and the monasteries.
  • During her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions, which led to her denunciation as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents. Mary was the only child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to survive to adulthood.
  • Her younger half-brother Edward VI (son of Henry and Jane Seymour) succeeded their father in 1547 at the age of nine.
  • When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because he supposed, correctly, that she would reverse the Protestant reforms that had begun during his reign.
  • On his death, leading politicians proclaimed Lady Jane Grey as queen.
  • Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and 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. After Mary's death in 1558, her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her younger half-sister and successor, Elizabeth I.

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