What has mary tudor done for history?

Question

What has mary tudor done for history?

Answer 1

she advocated DIVORCE, because she first had to marry an old man for her brother's sake, before she married someone she chose.

Answer 2

The only thing that Mary did was annihilate all Protestants and turn England into a kingdom filled with blood. Thus, she earned the name "Bloody Mary".

Answer 3

I need to ask which Mary Tudor?  There were two.  One Nary Tudor was the sister of Henry VIII of England who then was also Queen Mary France when she was married to Louis XII of France until his death.  Mary Tudor then married Charles Brandon the 1st Duke of Suffolk.

The other Mary Tudor was Queen Mary of England who was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, named for her aunt Mary, Queen of France.  It was Queen Mary of England who ordered the execution of Lady Jane Grey who had attempted to take the throne after the death of Queen Mary's brother King Edward VI.

Lady Jane Grey was a granddaughter of Hernry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor who became the Queen Mary of France and then the Duchess of Suffolk.

Answer 4

Very little that was positive, I fear.  She was a very unfortunate, unhappy victim of her father's actions.  His break with the Church of Rome as part of his effort to divorce* Mary's mother made Mary a strong, even fanatic, Catholic in reaction.  When she came to the throne, at the age of thirty-seven, Mary tried to do what she was convinced was the right thing: to return England to the Catholic Church.  So she allowed the burning of large numbers of Protestants, including Thomas Cranmer, who had been Archbishop of Canterbury under her father and her brother Edward VI, along with a few other bishops.  Her marriage to Prince (later King) Philip of Spain was unpopular, and when her first hopes that she was pregnant proved wrong, Philip, who had returned to Spain, couldn't even be persuaded to come back to England to try again.  On her deathbed, at the age of forty-two, she heard her courtiers riding past her window to ingratiate themselves with her heir, her sister Elizabeth.  So what did Mary do for history?  She strengthened Protestant resistance in England, and she made Elizabeth shine all the more brightly.  Not that Elizabeth needed any help!  

Not long after Mary's death, Philip proposed marriage to Elizabeth.  We know how far he got.  Nearly thirty years later, he decided to teach that upstart woman a lesson and sent his navy, aka the Invincible Armada, to invade England.  Some of its members eventually got back to Spain.  Elizabeth, in her later years, directed that Mary's body be moved to Elizabeth's tomb, explaining (and I'm paraphrasing), "Mary wsn't very well liked, and once I'm not here to prevent it, someone might try to desecrate her grave.  But no one will desecrate MINE."  So far, she's been right.

*The word "divorce" at that time meant what we would call annulment--a declaration that the marriage had been invlaid to begin with.  By ending his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, Henry was declaring that they had never been legally married in the first place and that Mary was therefore illegitimate.

Answer 5

Although Mary enjoyed tremendous popular support and sympathy for her mistreatment during the earliest parts of her reign, she lost almost all of it after marrying Philip. The marriage treaty clearly specified that England was not to be drawn into any Spanish wars, but this guarantee proved meaningless. Philip spent most of his time governing his European territories, while his wife usually remained in England. After Mary's death, Philip became a suitor for Elizabeth's hand, but she refused him.

The persecution of Protestants earned Mary the appellation "Bloody Mary" although many historians believe Mary does not deserve all the blame. There is disagreement as to the number of people put to death during Mary's five-year reign. However, several notable clerics were executed; among them Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Nicholas Ridley the former Bishop of London and the reformist Hugh Latimer. John Foxe vilified Mary in his Book of Martyrs, which may have been a biased account of the events, considering the high level of emotion at the time.

One popular tradition traces the nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary to Mary's attempts to bring Roman Catholicism back to England, although it may well be about her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.