Do you bloody mary was getting revenge for mothers exit frum england? her craze to kill non catholics?

Question

sorry i deleted this by accident/

what she did was wrong!!

but when u have power u have power...:(

Answer 1

Mary had Protestants burnt at the stake because they were heretics, and that was what you did with heretics in those days.  Her father Henry VIII also burnt Protestants at the stake, and he executed Catholics too for good measure.  Her sister Elizabeth I had Catholics put to death too, and probably some heretic Protestants as well, if they weren't C of E.  Executing heretics was common practice in the 16th century, not a peculiarity of Mary.

Answer 2

No, Mary I of Scotland was a Catholic fanatic, and as Queen, Mary was very concerned about religious issues. She had always rejected the break with Rome instituted by her father and the establishment of Protestantism by Edward VI. She had England reconcile with Rome and Reginald Cardinal Pole, and Mary would come to rely greatly on Pole for advice.

As well as Pole's religious duties, he was in effect the Queen's chief minister and adviser. Mary began burning reformers for heresy, executing 220 men and 60 women before her death in 1558. Pole shares responsibility for these persecutions which - contrary to his intention - contributed to the lasting success of the English Reformation.

Note: Mary did seek personal revenge on Thomas Cranmer, who was responsible for her mother's unhappy divorce. He helped build a favorable case for Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and guided the English Reformation, which denied papal authority over the English Church, during its earliest days. Cranmer was executed in 1556 for heresy after Queen Mary I reunited the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 3

I wouldn't put it quite so bluntly, but I think that her father's treatment of her mother and his break with Rome made her all the more zealous a Catholic, and when she became Queen, she believed that, as a good Catholic, she had a duty to take the opportunity to restore her country to what she saw as the true faith.  One particularly sad aspect of the situation is that she seems to have loved her father all his life.

Answer 4

Hi,

Old Henry VIII started the whole mess. Anyway, even when he broke yoke with the Pope, Heretics that were not Anglican were still punished along with Roman Catholics who would not obey his Oath Of Supremacy.

Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon stayed in England, lived alone and died of natural causes, never giving up the claim she was still Henry's wife and Queen.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 5

"Bloody Mary" was NOT Mary I of Scotland!!!!  Not sure she ever stepped foot in Scotland!  I don't think she was trying to get revenge, exactly -- but she was a devout Catholic, who felt that her country had been turned away from the "true church" because of the passions of her degenerate father, and was trying to "bring them back to God."

Actually, Henry VIII, in his own way, considered himself a good Catholic, and had talked himself in believing -- conveniently -- that his marriage with Catherine of Aragon was not blessed with a male heir because their marriage was not lawful in the sight of God, because Catherine had been married to his brother.  In his mind, the Catholic church had betrayed itself by giving him an improper Papal bull which annulled  Catherine of Aragon's marriage to his brother, Arthur, and then were unwilling to remedy their mistake by giving HIM an annullment to Catherine -- which would, coincidentally, free him to marry Anne Boleyn.

And, of course, Catherine of Aragon did remain in England after being relegated to non-Queen status, but staunchly maintained that she was, in the fact, the true Queen of England -- much to Henry's annoyance.  He kept after her, trying to get her to renouce her title and their marriage, but she refused -- knowing that, if she did, her daughter, Mary, would be proclaimed illegitimate.  Catherine was banished from court in 1531, and Henry married Anne secretly, and then with more ceremony in January, 1533.  Catherine died in January, 1536 without having seen her daughter, Mary, for the past five years.  Mary was 19 when her mother died, and became Queen in 1553, at the age of 37, and a year later, married the Catholic Philip of Spain -- a very unpopular move with the English.  She died five years later, paving the way for Elizabeth I (who had her own maternal abandonment issues to deal with!)