Why did lady jane grey become queen?

Question

Why did lady jane grey become queen?

Answer 1

Yes she became Queen of England.

Answer 2

Lady Jane Grey was born in October 1537 and died in February 1554. Lady Jane is most remembered as the "Nine Day Queen" before Mary Tudor was confirmed as queen in 1553 after the death of her half-brother Edward VI.

Jane’s father was Henry Grey, who was to become the Duke of Suffolk, and her mother was Lady Frances Brandon, who was the daughter of Henry VIII’s sister Mary and the great grand-daughter of Henry VII.

Jane had a strict upbringing and she never developed a close relationship with her parents. She did, however, develop a close friendship with Catherine Parr. Academically, Jane excelled in languages. She had been tutored by John Aylmer and she spoke French, Greek, Latin and Italian fluently.

Jane became a ward of Baron Seymour of Sudeley who tried unsuccessfully to arrange a marriage between Jane and Edward VI. Seymour was executed for treason in 1549.

After the death of Seymour, Jane fell under the influence of John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland. Dudley was Edward's chief advisor. In 1553, Jane married Dudley’s son, Lord Guilford Dudley.

Northumberland managed to persuade Edward VI to change the order of succession so that Jane would succeed to the throne. His argument was that Jane was Church of England and Mary was Catholic and any change back to Catholicism would be disastrous for England. Northumberland's plan was simple: if Jane, his daughter-in-law, was queen and his son king, Dudley's influence over royal policy would be strong and he could enhance the power he already had.

When Edward died on July 6th 1553, Lady Jane Grey succeeded to the throne aged 15. The proclamation was read out on July 10th 1553. Her 'reign' lasted nine days.

However, the people of England rallied around Mary Tudor. England had enjoyed decades of stability under the Tudors and the name had become synonymous with England’s growing European standing. Mary’s surname alone would have been enough to gain her the support of the vast majority. On July 19th, Mary was proclaimed queen of England and Jane was sent to the Tower of London.

Dudley was not helped in his plan by the fact that his army deserted him, clearly fearing a Tudor backlash against which they would be severely beaten in combat. To make matters worse for her, Jane’s father, probably out of desperation, joined the failed rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554.

Had her father not joined the rebellion, it is probable that Mary would have spared the life of the fifteen year old who was clearly out of her depth but did as she was told. The rebellion convinced Mary that Jane, while alive, remained a threat to her. Mary was also concerned that Jane, when given the chance to convert to Catholicism, refused to do so.

Lady Jane Grey and her husband were beheaded on February 12th,1554, after being found guilty of treason. Guilford was the first to be executed followed by Jane. Before she was executed, Jane said that she had never wanted the throne of England and that she would die a "true Christian women".

Answer 3

When Henry the eighth died the throne was passed to his son Edward but he was a sickly child, and when he died at a young age the nest in line was Mary who went on to become known as bloody Mary. But when Edward died for ever reason they gave the throne to Lady Jane Grey, but she was beheaded nine days after being made queen by Mary. And the throne went back to Mary.

Answer 4

Because her father-in-law (John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland) forced it. he feared a Catholic (Mary I) on the throne. he was later executed for High Treason by Mary I.

Edward VI (who preceeded Jane) had also named her in his will as his heir (although this ran contrary to the laws of succesion at the time).

Answer 5

Becuase she was named heir

Answer 6

coz she was the next in line after edmond son of henry 8th

Answer 7

Now I'm not to clear on history

as near as you can.  her family wanted her to become queen

she did not'  and she was just a child of 16yrs

there was an vacuum' after bloody Mary died

and it was up for grabs.   [Politics]  family and Jane went to the scaffold

Answer 8

Henry 8th married her after murdering all his previous wives because he thought they were barren. The Pope refused to give him a divorce from his first wife so the murdering began.

The English Archbishop Thomas Moore refused also to allow him a divorce so he was killed unlawfully too. That story is the basis for that great film "A man for all seasons"

Answer 9

In a desperate bid to secure his own power upon the young king's death,  the Duke of Northumberland concocted a plan to put a puppet upon the throne. That puppet was Lady Jane Grey, the quiet, devout sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary Rose. Northumberland believed that Jane would be pliable enough to do whatever he asked of her.

It took a hefty measure of gall to put forward Jane Grey as the future queen of England, since her claim to the title was extremely weak. But gall was something Northumberland had in abundance.

He married Jane to his own son Guildford Dudley, and through them believed he would be able to control the crown when Edward finally died. Jane had no inkling that her new father-in-law planned to put her forward in Mary Tudor's place when the king died.

Northumberland had little trouble persuading the fervently Protestant Edward that the throne must not fall to his Catholic sister Mary. The king was convinced to circumvent his father's will and name Jane's mother Frances Grey as his successor. Frances then duly relinquished her own "claim" in favour of her daughter, Jane. With great difficulty Northumberland convinced the Council to fall in with his plans.

Edward died on July 6, 1553 and four days later Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England.

Answer 10

why don't you read a book..?..you lazy.........

Answer 11

Because she had a claim to the throne but mostley because her relatives wanted to be powerful.

Answer 12

it wwas engineered by the percys to give them power, or was it the howards? anyone someone or other, married her off to their child and made her queen by some link into the royal line, she only lasted 9 days though

Answer 13

Edward VI's counsel wanted a monarch who was strictly Protestant. Mary was a devout Catholic, and Elizabeth was a little mysterious about her beliefs. Jane Grey, a cousin of Edward's and a great niece of Henry VIII, was a Protestant in the same way that Edward was.

The council also married Jane to young man, Guilford Dudley, whose family was powerful at the time. They wanted to rule the country through Jane and her husband.

Answer 14

Because her husband Henry VIII needed a son.  Otherwise the child would be illigitimate... and b*****d son could not be Prince.  Finally Henry broke with the Pope because divorce was not allowed...and why he killed off his wives...and became head of the Church of England and wrote his own edicts.

Don't some men continue to kill of their wives instead of divorcing them?

Answer 15

Jane's claim to the throne came through her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France (daughter of King Henry VII of England) and of her second husband, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. The will of Edward VI excluded Frances and willed the Crown directly to Jane.

According to male primogeniture, the Suffolks — Brandons and later Greys — comprised the junior branch of the heirs of Henry VII. The Third Succession Act restored both Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession, although the law continued to regard both of them as illegitimate. Furthermore, this Act authorised Henry VIII to alter the succession by his will. His last will reinforced the succession of his three surviving children, then declared that, should none of his three children leave heirs, the throne would pass to heirs of his younger sister, Mary. Henry's will excluded the descendants of his elder sister Margaret Tudor, owing in part to Henry's desire to keep the English throne out of the hands of the Scots monarchs, and in part to a previous Act of Parliament of 1431 barring foreign-born persons, including royalty, from inheriting property in England.

Several Protestant nobles had become wealthy when Henry VIII closed the Catholic monasteries and divided the Church's assets among his supporters. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, figured prominently among the Protestant nobility, and in the last years of Edward's reign had acted as Edward's principal advisor and chief minister. When it became clear that Edward VI would not survive long, Northumberland led the faction that feared accession by Mary Tudor. This fear stemmed from the knowledge that Mary would certainly revoke the religious changes made during Edward's reign, and that she might reclaim from the nobility all former church and monastic properties in order to restore them to the Roman Catholic Church. Many Englishmen also expressed concern that Mary favoured for herself a Spanish marriage which might bring in Spanish nobles to rule England in place of Northumberland and his colleagues. Northumberland arranged for his son Lord Guilford Dudley to marry the Protestant (and anti-Catholic) Jane, hoping through him to gain control over his new daughter-in-law and the reins of England. When informed by her parents of her betrothal, Jane refused to obey: she regarded Guilford as ugly and stupid.

The question of the succession had arisen as a result of the religious unrest that had occurred during the reign (1509–1547) of Henry VIII. When Henry's Protestant son and successor Edward VI lay dying in 1553 at the age of 15, his Roman Catholic half-sister Mary held the position of Heir Presumptive to the throne. However, Edward VI named the (Protestant) heirs of his father's sister Mary Tudor (not his own half-sister Mary) as his successors in a will composed on his deathbed, perhaps under the persuasion of Northumberland. He knew that this effectively left the throne to his cousin Jane Grey, who (like him) staunchly supported Protestantism and had a very high level of education.

Only in the last draft did Edward finally include Jane Grey as his heir presumptive, knowing the line of succession included no Protestant-born male children.

Lady Jane Grey, formally Jane of England (1537 — 12 February 1554), a grand-niece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in July 1553. Jane's brief rule ended, however, when the authorities revoked her proclamation as Queen. Mary's subsequent régime eventually had her executed for treason.

Answer 16

Because technically, she was next in line for the throne. However, her right to the throne was challenged and she did not have the army, or the supporters, to confirm her position. There were a lot of politics involved.