What ever happened to Henry the 8th daughter Mary?

Question

What is her story?

Answer 1

she locked up her little sister, elizabeth, in the tower of London

Answer 2

She died in 1558 after being England's first female ruler. As Queen she tried to make England a Catholic country again and hunted down Protestants.

Answer 3

Mary Tudor/Mary I/Bloody Mary, born 1516, came to the throne 1553, died 1558.

She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, the only child of theirs to survive to adulthood.  Spoilt and loved as a little princess, she soon had to take second place when Elizabeth (I) was born to her father's second wife, Anne Boleyn.  The sisters were never close, and their fortunes fluctuated as they went in and out of their father's favour.  Mary was separated from her mother when the Queen was banished from the court, and never saw her again.  The stress was a major cause of Mary's ill health, and she was never truly well.

On the death of her father, Mary's half-brother became King Edward VI, but he only lived until he was about 16.  There was then a plot to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne, a Protestant like Edward, but she only "ruled" for nine days before Mary gathered support and took her rightful place on the throne.

She married Philip of Spain, a Catholic, which was a very unpopular choice for Protestant England.  Mary was a devout Catholic, like her mother, and she tried to bring England back to what she thought was the True Faith.  As this involved burning nearly 300 Protestants, she earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" - but her persecutions weren't as bad as her father's or sister's (given that her reign was shorter than either).  

Philip didn't love her; he was doing his duty.  Mary was older than he was, with bad teeth; she was small and had a gruff voice.  But she was kind and loved children, and would have been happy as a simple wife with her own family.  Tragically, this didn't happen.  She thought she was pregnant twice, but she either lost the child early on or they were phantom pregnancies.  In both cases, she prepared to have the child, but the nine months passed, time went on, and she had to face the humiliation of emerging from her private apartments with no baby.

The second time, her health failed and she became ill.  She died of, it's thought, ovarian or cervical cancer - or, possibly, influenza.  After that, the crown went to her sister, Elizabeth.

Here are some good sites for more details:

http://tudorhistory.org/mary/

http://departments.kings.edu/womens_hist...

http://www.the-tudors.org.uk/bloody-mary...

Answer 4

Bloody Mary was Mary Tudor, Queen of England, and daughter of King Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon. All her life, she was a mean brat to her little sister, Elizabeth and her brother Edward VI. She did not like them at all and was very jealous. When Edward VI died, she became Queen Mary of England. She was hated all over for changing the religion in England from Protestant to Roman Catholic. She mass-murdered over 100 Protestant leaders, earning her name as "Bloody Mary".

Answer 5

wat kaliko said

I'm doing a report on her and she seems like  a very very bad person

didn't she die of loung Cancer????

Answer 6

She became Queen of England, known as "Bloody Mary" , died and was followed by Elizabeth I as Queen.

Answer 7

Queen Mary I of England reigned as Queen of England for a short five years (r.1553-1558), the first reigning queen since the disputed Mathilda in the 12th Century. Most historians consider her reign to be unfruitful in that she never was able to fulfill her dream of returning England to the Roman Catholic Church. She also never had any children of her own to continue her dynasty in England. Her foreign policies met with failure as well.

Answer 8

she became queen and had lady jane grey (whom edward had named as his heir) executed for treason. she then died relatively young and her half- sister elizabeth I became queen.

Answer 9

The first queen to rule England in her own right, she was known as 'Bloody Mary' for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Catholicism in England.

Mary was born at Greenwich on 18 February 1516, the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Her life was radically altered when Henry divorced Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn. He claimed that the marriage was incestuous and illegal, as Catherine had been married to his dead brother, Arthur. The Pope disagreed; Henry broke with Rome and established the Church of England.

Henry's allegations of incest effectively bastardised Mary. After Anne Boleyn bore Henry another daughter, Elizabeth, Mary was forbidden access to her parents and stripped of her title of princess. Mary never saw her mother again. With Anne Boleyn's fall, there was a chance of reconciliation between father and daughter. However, Mary refused to recognise her father as head of the church. She eventually agreed to submit to her father and Mary returned to court and was given a household suitable to her position. She was named as heir to the throne after her younger brother Edward, born in 1537.

Edward VI succeeded his father in 1547 and, under the protectorate of the Duke of Northumberland, zealously promoted Protestantism. Mary, however, remained a devout Catholic. When it became clear that Edward was dying, Northumberland made plans for his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, to take the throne in Mary's place.

On Edward's death in 1553, Jane was briefly acclaimed queen. But Mary had widespread popular support and within days made a triumphal entry into London. Once queen, she was determined to re-impose Catholicism and marry Philip II of Spain. Neither was popular: Philip was foreign and distrusted and many in England had a vested interest in the Protestant church, having received church lands and money after Henry dissolved the monasteries.

In 1554 Mary crushed a rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Making the most of her advantage, she married Philip, pressed on with the restoration of Catholicism and revived the laws against heresy. Over the next three years, hundreds of Protestants were burned at the stake. This provoked disillusionment with Mary, deepened by an unsuccessful war against France which led to the loss of Calais, England's last possession in France, in January 1558. Childless, sick and deserted by Philip, Mary died on 17 November 1558. Her hopes for a Catholic England died with her.

Answer 10

died

Answer 11

This is a fairly common story.

She restored Catholicism but died relatively young and her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth was installed.

She also had the Bloody Mary and Maryland named after her.