Did Mary deserve her Bloody Mary nick name?

Answer 1

well she is a nice person eventhough:

she killed many protestant

she lost calais the last town in control of england

and she was selfish

but...

she was treated badly in her childhood

she wasn't allowed to see her mother (i mean how would you feel if you can't see your mother because your father didn't let you)

her husband left her and went to spain

her husband thought she was unattractive

but..

she did kill 300 religious dissenters at steak

but mary's father killed over 70,000 people and he wasn't called bloody henry was he?

so i think she didn't deserve that name

hope i helped

Answer 2

 I nee five reasons why she DID. I have a dope for a history teacher.

Answer 3

i think she didnt deserve the nick name because she did what she thought was right ans she carried on the catholic religion

Answer 4

so am i but i am sorry i couldnt help i tried x

Answer 5

Can You Get me simple information im only 12

Answer 6

this question is a tough one as it was a terrible thing for someone to do what she did to kill that many people and it was said that she was even killing small children!!!!!!!! even though this was a terrible thing to do her father henry the 8th killed around 70,000 people during his reighn, but this is also not necesserly reliable as even though this figure can be found in text books it was likely that the text was written after henrys death which means the person who wrote the 'fact' was no longer freterened by henry. Mary also had a terrible childhood which is no excuss to kill 300 people but may of contrubuted to her violent behavior.

i also think that the fact that edward ( marys brother) disowned her means he must of been scared of her need for power, or maybe even scared of what his sister was capable of. Edward left the throne to lady jane gray ( his cousin) and she became king at the age of just sixteen but she was only on the throne for nine days before mary over threw her promising her people that she wouldnt kill her but eventually killed lady jane gray and her family which made mary unpopular with the rest of the country, as they did nolonger trust her.

i think this is a hard argument and could go on for a long time but i think that she did deserve her name but if she didnt do any of this then she would not be a very exciting monarch and as simon cowell would say better bad press than no press.

by the way sorry for any spelling mistakes got to do the essay myself by tomorrow so wish me luck ( only got it yesterday) hope ive helped xx

Answer 7

this does not help me do my homework -.-

Answer 8

Yes she did....Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland , she is best remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism . In the process, she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake earning her the nick name of "Bloody Mary

Answer 9

what reasons are there that bloody mary deserved her nick name

Answer 10

you two lovers might as well stop aruing

Answer 11

 lol i love how you guys are arguing:L:L:L:L:L:L:L:L:L:L:L:L

and thanks for this-it helped me with my hw :')

Answer 12

u two are both stressed

Answer 13

yes, she killed nearly three hundred people, it's horrible. But there are so many people who have done worse things and have not earned a nickname throughout history such as "Bloody Mary" and have not had urban legends made up about them, honestly. For nearly three hundred years in Spain and Mexico the Spanish Inquisition took place. They not only burned "heretics" they tortured them whether they were guilty of a "crime" or not and we don't call Isabella and Ferdinand nor the generations after them "Bloody so and so". The Armenian Genocide- the way the word genocide came about, an event hardly known when three brother's ordered that thousands of Armenians be killed. They're not called "bloody". I'm not even going to go into the Holocaust, true Hitler may have a bad name now, but he still isn't called "bloody Adolph".

Clearly, what she did was unacceptable, but there were so many characters worse than she who killed only three hundred.

Other things that must be considered is the time period- religion was everything, and I might point out Elizabeth I wasn't exactly charming. True, she didn't publicly burn them, but she had spies track down Catholics secretly practicing their religion and when they were found, they were thrown in jail and left there to get a horrible sickness and die or not quite as often but still rather frequently they were decapitated and their heads put on stakes on the London Bridge- (a method also preferred by her father). But I digress, my point is religion was everything, public execution was actually common, disgusting as it is, people enjoyed watching it, that's not a good thing, but it's what it was. When a person truly thinks about no one of noble or royal blood could have had a particularly good state of mind, years and years of marrying first and second cousins, you have to wonder what the effects of that is.

Finally, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Mary especially had an awful childhood, she was betrothed three different times but was never accepted because she looked frail and it was thought she wouldn't be able to bear children- ( a slap in the face in that time period). She was favored by her father until she was eleven, after which when Henry VIII could not have a male heir by Catherine of Aragon he separated mother and daughterand had their letters read whenever they were sent and quite possibly had someone poison her mother, was thrown into prison for a few weeks when she refused to convert to the new church, then, when Elizabeth was born, was forced to become a maid to her own half-sister. She watched her father go through six wives- (always fun), was stripped of her title Princess of Wales, declared a b*****d and her title given to Elizabeth. She was always in bad health with headaches, bad vision, and catching the sweating sickness every time it came round- (most likely a result of the crossed bloodlines). The one man she had wanted to marry was banned from the country and as a young women she was separated from her beloved nanny, the only person who cared for her by then. She wasn't even considered to be sent money for new clothing or new things in the castle she was exiled to.

When she was married to Phillip of Spain he said he wouldn't come home to her unless she allowed him to declare war on France. He lost a lot of English land, still was not kind to Mary, and eventually left England. She had an awful life, what she did wouldn't have been condoned or accepted now, but she could have done many worse things. And for some reason people like to stress the fact that she wouldn't conform to the Church of England. How many people do you know that would convert from the religion they have grown up in and loved simply because their father was almost excommunicated because he was a head figure that had many mistresses and illegitimate children?

p.s
i think all you people are saddos and need to get a life

Answer 14

no she didnt, she was trying to do her best and sort things back to how her fathers way that she probably didnt know what was best for the country. In tudor times it was a lot harded for kings and queens because they didnt have the help we have in these days, copyright, yoo,itsme, my own words

Answer 15

I DON'T KNOW THATS WAT IM TRU=YING TO FIND OUT ^^YOOU^^ r noo help so sod off

Answer 16

well guest11869101 you need to sort ur life out and learn how spell sort

Answer 17

no because she was just a big f**t
mate you are to stressed ou tso hopefully this message shall sought you out