Why was Queen Mary called Bloody Mary?

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Mary I of England
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Queen Mary I of England (reigned 1553 – 1558) is called Bloody Mary because of her persecution of Protestants. The Protestant Reformation, started fitfully in England by King Henry VIII, became established policy under the brief reign of Edward VI. Mary, like her mother Catherine of Aragon, whom Henry VIII had spurned, was a devout Roman Catholic. She contracted an unpopular marriage to the equally devout Philip II of Spain. The pair, with the assistance of conservative churchmen such as Edward "Bloody" Bonner and Stephen Gardiner, sought to reimpose Roman Catholicism upon the religiously divided country.

During her brief reign of just over five years, Mary had almost three hundred people burnt at the stake for heresy. Her persecutions were notable also for the prominence of their victims; the first person to die was the Protestant John Rogers, who had completed and published Tyndale's work as Matthew's Bible. While heresy trials and executions occurred both before and after her reign, she executed more than twice as many as had been executed for this crime over the preceding century and a half.

Mary's half-sister Elizabeth succeeded her. In contrast to Mary's violent epithet, Elizabeth was commonly known as "Good Queen Bess," despite being as ruthless toward Catholics as her predecessor had been toward Protestants. On one occasion, Elizabeth had about eight hundred Catholics executed for restoring the Mass in a few towns. This has prompted some historians to suggest that a more fitting name for Elizabeth would be "Bloody Bess."[1] Indeed, Irish Catholics reversed the epithets, calling Mary "Good Queen Mary," and Elizabeth "Bloody Bess."[2]

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Mary was called bloody Mary because she beheaded protestants and became unpopular

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Mary I, also Mary Tudor, was the eldest daughter (and only living child) of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. At first the intelligent child was considered "England's Pearl" and was made Princess of Wales. Unfortunatley, Mary lacked the one thing that woud have made her perfect in her Father's eyes:she wasn't a boy. Henry and Katherine, although married for almost 20 years had only the one living child; and this child was directly caught between her mother and father during the huge religious and secular row that resulted in Henry's trying to divorce Katherine to marry Anne Boleyn.
Mary was persecuted harshly throughout her early life by her own father for not giving into his will. She supported her mother. She was also a staunch Catholic (as were 99.9% of all English at the time) and at this Moment in Time Europe was going not only through the late Rennaisance but also through the Reformation. Protestants and Catholics were squaring off in seperate camps. That would eventually mean tourture and a painful death later on for many.
Mary did eventually become Queen, after her father died in 1548 and she then succeeded her brother (by Jane Seymour) Edward the VI in 1553. By this time the poor lady was in very poor health but was stil a staunch Catholic.
For a time she allowed Protestants to live quietly in England but once she was married to Phillip II of Spain, the auto de fea came to England. About 300 people were burned to death in her short reign of five years. This is what gained her the nomenclature of "Bloody Mary".

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Queen Mary was a very devout catholic and back then they believed if they didn't follow God laws bad things happened to them. She wanted so desparately to be happy and have God grant her an heir to the throne so the country would remain catholic, that she ordered the burning of hundreds of protestants. (She truly believed she was saving them!). In the end it did no good because her Protestant half sister succeeded her and helped change England forever.

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Henry the 8th (father of Mary and Elizabeth I) created his own church so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon (Mary's mother) because the Catholics wouldn't allow it. Mary was forced to denounce her religion and was declared a bastard in favor of the potential children by Anne Boylen.

Later when Mary took power, she tried to redeem herself in the eyes of God (in her opinion) by murdering Protestants though this was not for religious reasons alone. Most Protestants were supporters of Elizabeth taking the throne instead of Mary and so it was a way to prevent rebellion as well.

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She killed masses of non-catholic englanders. Therefore, bloody mary.

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