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Mary I Tudor Queen Of England

Mary I Tudor Queen Of England

Female 1516 - 1558  (43 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Mary I Tudor Queen Of England  [1, 2, 3
    Birth Between 18 Feb 1515 and 1516  Greenwich Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Category English Royalty - House of Tudor 
    Death 17 Nov 1558  St James Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Ap Goronwy Tudor   d. 1331, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (5 x Great Grandfather) 
    Katherine De Aragon,   b. 15 Dec 1485, Alcala DE Henares, Madrid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 7 Jan 1535 and 1536, Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)  (Mother) 
    Notes 
    • Acceded 1553-1558

      Mary I (reigned 1553-58) was the first Queen Regnant (that is, a queen reigning in her own right rather than a queen through marriage to a king). Courageous and stubborn, her character was moulded by her earlier years: an Act of Parliament in 1533 had declared her illegitimate and removed her from the succession to the throne (she was reinstated in 1544, but her half-brother Edward removed her from the succession once more shortly before his death), whilst she was pressurised to give up the mass and acknowledge the English Protestant Church.

      Mary restored papal supremacy in England, abandoned the title of Supreme Head of the Church, reintroduced Roman Catholic bishops and began the slow reintroduction of monastic orders. Mary also revived the old heresy laws to secure the religious conversion of the country; heresy was regarded as a religious and civil offence amounting to treason (to believe in a different religion from the Sovereign was an act of defiance and disloyalty). As a result, around 300 Protestant heretics were burnt in three years - apart from eminent Protestant clergy such as Cranmer (a former archbishop and author of two Books of Common Prayer), Latimer and Ridley, these heretics were mostly poor and self-taught people. Apart from making Mary deeply unpopular, such treatment demonstrated that people were prepared to die for the Protestant settlement established in Henry's reign. The progress of Mary's conversion of the country was also limited by the vested interests of the aristocracy and gentry who had bought the monastic lands sold off after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and who refused to return these possessions voluntarily as Mary invited them to do.

      Aged 37 at her accession, Mary wished to marry and have children, thus leaving a Catholic heir to consolidate her religious reforms, and removing her half-sister Elizabeth (a focus for Protestant opposition) from direct succession. Mary's decision to marry Philip, King of Spain from 1556, in 1554 was very unpopular; the protest from the Commons prompted Mary's reply that Parliament was 'not accustomed to use such language to the Kings of England' and that in her marriage 'she would choose as God inspired her'. The marriage was childless, Philip spent most of it on the continent, England obtained no share in the Spanish monopolies in New World trade and the alliance with Spain dragged England into a war with France. Popular discontent grew when Calais, the last vestige of England's possessions in France dating from William the Conqueror's time, was captured by the French in 1558. Dogged by ill health, Mary died later that year possibly from cancer, leaving the crown to her half-sister Elizabeth.
    Person ID I53140  ktree
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

    Father VIII Henry VIII Tudor King Of England,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 28 Jan 1546 and 1547, Whitehall Palace, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    Other Partners: Catherine Parr;   Anne Boleyn  m. Between 25 Jan 1532 and 1533;   Elizabeth Blount;   Elizabeth Stafford;   Anne Von Kleves  m. Between 6 Jan 1539 and 1540;   Jane Seymour  m. 20 May 1536;   Katherine Howard  m. 28 Jul 1540  
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Katherine De Aragon,   b. 15 Dec 1485, Alcala DE Henares, Madrid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 7 Jan 1535 and 1536, Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Other Partners: Arthur Tudor Prince Of Wales  m. 1501  
    Relationship unknown 
    Marriage 11 Jun 1509  Grey Friars Church, Greenwich, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F17976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family II Philip II Habsburg King Of Spain,   b. 21 May 1527, Valladolid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1598, El Escorial Palace, Madrid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jul 1554  Winchester Cathedral, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F19273  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

  • Photos
    English Royalty - Mary I, Queen of England
    English Royalty - Mary I, Queen of England

  • Sources 
    1. [S202] 11615-2.ftw.
      Date of Import: 21 Feb 1999

    2. [S203] Gregory Strong, Ancestory.com Individual Tree - Kings & Presidents.

    3. [S201] Leisure Guy, leisureguy@icloud.com, "KinshipTree - Historical Family Database", (Name: Name: http://kinshipcove.com Genealogy Research: Common Historical Roots In South Texas;;).



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