What is the difference between Mary Tudor, Mary 1st of England and Mary Queen of Scots? are they all the same?

Question

What is the difference between Mary Tudor, Mary 1st of England and Mary Queen of Scots? are they all the same?

Answer 1

Mary I and Mary queen of scots are the same (daughter of James V), whereas Mary Tudor was daugther of Henry VIII.

Answer 2

no, they are different- Mary used to be a VERY popular name.

Answer 3

Mary was a popular name in Christian countries at the time for obvious reasons. Mary Tudor and Mary 1st are one and the same - eldest daughter of Henry VIII. Mary Queen of Scots was Mary Tudor's cousin.

Hope that assists

Answer 4

Well, there were two Mary Tudors.

The elder one was Mary, the younger sister of Henry VIII.  She married first the King of France, a marriage that didn't last long as he was old and in poor health, and then Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk.  Her granddaughter was Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of england for nine days.

The younger Mary Tudor was the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon.  She became Queen of England in 1553 after the death of her younger brother Edward. She restored the Catholic religion as england's official religion(despite the Reformation, the majority of the population were still Catholic at this time), and became very unpopular with her Protestant subjects because she burnt quite  a number of Protestants at the stake. She died in 1558 and was succeeded by her younger sister Elizabeth.

Mar, Queen of Scots was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth.  her grandmother was Margaret, the elder sister of Henry VIII.  She inherited the throne of Scotland when she was just a baby.  She was bethrothed to the Dauphin (eldest son of the king of France) when she was very small, and brought up at the French Court.  She was very briefly Queen of France, but her husband soon died and she returned to Scotland.  She married her cousin Darnley, and their son later became King James VI of Scotland, and eventually King James I of england.  She became very unpopular in Scotland after she was implicated in the murder of Darnely, and she fled to england where Elizabeth kept her imprisoned for twenty years, until she was finally executed in 1587.

Answer 5

Mary I or England is the same person as Mary Tudor (AKA Bloody Mary).

Mary Queen of Scots was the first cousin once removed of Mary I of England as her grandmother (Margaret Tudor) was Henry VIII's sister.

Mary Tudor was also the name of Henry VIII's younger sister who was Queen of France and after Louis XII's death married the Duke of Suffolk. She was especially close to her brother and he named both his daughter (Mary I) and his Ship "Mary Rose" after her.

Answer 6

Queen Mary 1st was the daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon lawful queen of Englnd after the death of her brother Edward. She was married to Phillip of Spain and responsible for bringing the Inquisition to England.

Mary Queen of Scots was the great grand daughter of Henry VII and was next in line to the English throne after Henry's own children. This was why in the end Elizabeth I had her executed. Two very different people.

Answer 7

Yes, one in the same.

Answer 8

mary tudor daughter of henry 8th and catherine of aragon. Mary 1st better known as bloody mary. and mary queen of scotts was henry the 8ths great granddaughter..hope this helps x

Answer 9

Although arfenundred's answer is most correct, one clarification: Mary Queen of Scots was the niece of Henry VIII; her mother was Margaret Tudor, eldest sister of Henry. She was first cousin to Elizabeth I and Mary I (Bloody Mary).

Answer 10

No, Mary Tudor was Henry VIII's daughter by his first wife.

Mary, Queen of Scots was a different lady.

Answer 11

Although Mary I of England is technically "Mary Tudor" I believe that most people are referring to Henry VIII's sister for whom he named his daughter after.  When you speak of them seperately his sister is known as "Mary Tudor", His daughter is known as "Queen Mary I" and Queen Mary of Scots is the grandaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary.

Answer 12

3 very different people ,

There were two different Mary 1

Mary Tudor (March 18, 1496 – June 25, 1533) was the younger sister of Henry VIII of England and queen consort of France due to her marriage to Louis XII. After his death, she married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI, to the English throne. In the process, she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions, resulting in her being called Bloody Mary. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her successor and half-sister, Elizabeth I.

Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots) (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567. She was also the queen consort of France from 10 July 1559 to 5 December 1560. After a long period of protective custody in England, she was tried and executed for treason following her involvement in three plots to assassinate Elizabeth I of England and place herself on the throne.

Answer 13

They were different women.But there is a link between them,they were distant cousins and rivals.By the way Mary Tudor is Mary I.

http://www.royal.gov.uk  in the history links says:

"MARY I (r. 1553-1558)

Mary I 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 early 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."

"MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (r. 1542-67)

Born at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian on 8 December 1542, Mary became Queen of Scots when she was six days old.

Her claims to the throne of England were almost as strong as her claims to the Scottish throne. As Henry VII of England's great-granddaughter, Mary was next in line to the English throne, after Henry VIII's children.

Given her youth and s*x, the Scottish nobility decided that they must make peace with England, and they agreed that she should marry Henry VIII's son, the future Edward VI.

No sooner had the treaty been arranged, however, than Catholics opposed to the plan took the young Mary to Stirling Castle and, to Henry's fury, they broke the match, preferring to return to Scotland's traditional alliance with France.

Henry thereupon ordered the savage series of raids into Scotland known as 'The Rough Wooing'. His army set fire to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse where James V was buried, burned crops in the Tweed Valley and set ablaze the Border abbeys of Melrose, Jedburgh and Dryburgh.

Undeterred, the Scots in 1548 betrothed Mary to the French King Henri II's heir, the Dauphin Francis, and sent her to be brought up at the French Court. It is said that the spelling of the royal family name of Stewart changed to Stuart at that time, to suit French conventional spelling.

Tall, graceful and quick-witted, Mary married the Dauphin in Paris on 24 April 1558. He succeeded to his father's throne in 1559, making Mary Queen of France as well as Scotland, but his reign was brief for he died of an ear infection in 1560.

The following year, despite the warnings of her friends, Mary decided to go back to Scotland, now an officially Protestant country after religious reforms led by John Knox.

She was a Roman Catholic, but her half-brother, Lord James Stewart, later Earl of Moray, had assured her that she would be allowed to worship as she wished and in August 1561 she returned, to an unexpectedly warm welcome from her Protestant subjects.

At first Mary ruled successfully and with moderation, advised by Lord James and William Maitland of Lethington, a subtle diplomat. However, her marriage in 1565 to her second cousin Henry, Lord Darnley (great-grandson of Henry VII) initiated a tragic series of events made worse by factious Scottish nobles.

Spoiled and petulant, Darnley became the tool of Mary's enemies and, with a group of conspirators, burst into her supper chamber, threatened the heavily pregnant queen and murdered her secretary, David Riccio, on 9 March 1566 inside the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

The birth of Mary and Darnley's son James that summer did nothing to improve their relationship, and when Darnley was murdered at Kirk o'Field, just outside the walls of Edinburgh on 10 February 1567, people suspected that she was implicated in the crime.

Her subsequent marriage three months later to the Earl of Bothwell (generally believed to be the principal murderer) brought her inevitable ruin. Her Protestant Lords rose against her and her army confronted theirs at Carberry Hill, near Edinburgh, on 15 June 1567.

She surrendered, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, Kinross-shire and forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son. Bothwell fled to Scandinavia, where he was arrested and held prisoner until his death.

Mary escaped from Lochleven in 1568, only to be defeated at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow, on 13 May. Fleeing south, she sought shelter in England, believing that Queen Elizabeth I would support her cause, but instead she was kept in captivity in England for 19 years.

The focus of a long series of Roman Catholic plots against Elizabeth, culminating in the Babington Plot to assassinate the English queen, led to Elizabeth's ministers demanding Mary's execution: 'so long as there is life in her, there is hope; so as they live in hope, we live in fear'.

Mary was finally executed at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on 8 February 1587, at the age of 44.

She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, but in 1612 her son James VI and I had her body exhumed and placed in the vault of King Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey."

Answer 14

They are not all the same.  Mary Tudor was Henry VIII's sister, Mary I of England is Henry VIII's daughter and Mary Queen of Scots is Henry VIII's great niece.

Answer 15

Some very confusing answers here:

OK here's the facts:

There were two Mary Tudors, but the one most people mean when they say "Mary Tudor" is the same person as Mary I of England (and Wales), aka "Bloody Mary".  She was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.  She inherited the throne on the death of her teenage half-brother, Henry's only son, Edward VI (Henry's son by his third wife, Jane Seymour), who died age 15 after a very short reign.  Edward (a Protestant) had been replaced briefly by his second cousin, the 16 year old Lady Jane Grey, by a group of influential Protestant nobles who hoped to keep the country under their control.  However, Mary and her supporters seized control of the throne and Lady Jane and her 17 year old husband were both executed after she refused to recant her Protestant faith.   Lady Jane is known as "The Nine Days Queen" as she ruled for only nine days.

Mary Tudor/Mary I was also given the nickname "Bloody Mary" - she was a devout Catholic and carried out a ruthless and bloody supression of Protestant beleifs in England and Wales - lots of burnings at the stake, torture and beheadings.

Mary was suceeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I (Henry VIII's daughter by his second wife, Anne Boleyn) who was Protestant and returned England and Wales to the Protestant faith.

(the only other Mary Tudor was the younger sister of Henry VIII - Lady Jane Grey's grandmother - as Louise C describes above.  When people talk about "Mary Tudor" they are generally talking about Mary I/Bloody Mary).

Mary Stuart (aka Mary Queen of Scots) was Henry VIII's great neice - she was the grand daughter of Henry VIII's eldest sister Margaret who had married the King of Scotland, and as such was Mary I , Elizabeth I and Edward's VI second cousin.

Mary Stuart spent her childhood and early life in France  (her mother was French) and returned to Scotland as a young woman.  Because of her bloodline connection to Henry VIII she was in line to the throne of England and Wales, and as many Catholics opposed Elizabeth I and did not regard her as "legitimate" (because Henry VIII had divorced his first wife to marry Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, and Catholics did no recognise divorce) there was a movement amoung English and Welsh Catholics to remove Elizabeth from the throne and replace her with Mary.  As a result, Elizabeth had Mary arrested (even though she had misgivings about doing this to her own cousin) and eventually executed as she realised that there was a real danger to her life as long as Mary lived and her supporters could rally behind her.

When Elizabeth died, Mary's son James VI of Scotland became James I of England, Wales and Scotland.  James was a Protestant as he had been taken away from his mother as an infant and raised in the Protestant faith.

Answer 16

Mary Tudor was a daughter of Henry VIII and became Mary I of England.  Mary Queen of Scots was a cousin (Henry VIII's aunt married into the Scottish royal family) who was next in line for the English throne after Elizabeth I.  She was executed so her son, James VI of Scotland became James I of England.