Mary...common English name ?

Question

Is the name Mary common in England? who was queen mary anyway? Was she be-headed?

Answer 1

Mary is reasonably common in England, yes. There have been quite a few Queen Marys . The Mary that was decapitated was Mary Queen of Scots and was executed (for being Roman Catholic)by having her head cut off by her English (Protestant) cousin the English Queen Elizabeth in 1597

Answer 2

Yes Mary is a common English name
Queen Mary Queen of Scott's
Yes she was beheaded

Answer 3

Mary is a common name in England, and so are other versions of it in many cultures.
It was Mary Queen of Scots who was beheaded - 1587. After that, there was Queen Mary 1, or Bloody Mary, who had a lot of Protestants massacred, and then was replaced by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Then there was Mary of Teck who became Queen-Consort of George V; she was Queen Elizabeth II's grandmother.
She was the only other Princess of Wales until Diana Spencer married Prince Charles.

Answer 4

Mary used to be a very common English name, but now it is a bit of an old lady name. (No offence to any young Mary's!) It kind of went out of fashion.

Mary Queen of Scots was be-headed. My history is not great, but I'm sure we've had other queen Mary's that may not have lost their head.

Answer 5

Mary is a very common name everywhere. There has been more than one Queen Mary. Mary Tudor, or Queen Mary I of England, was the daughter of Henry the VIII. She was sometimes referred to as "Bloody Mary Tudor". Then there was Mary, Queen of Scots ( a cousin of Queen Mary I)---SHE was beheaded.
Queen Mary II (Mary Stuart) was the wife of King William III, in the 17th century in England.
Henry VIII's sister, Mary, was also a Queen, but in France.

Answer 6

There were a lot of Queen Marys. Mary I or Mary as in King William and Queen Mary...

Answer 7

Yes, Mary is a common name not only in England, but other places as well. There's...
Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
Mary II, daughter of James II

Neither were be-headed. If this does not answer your question check out www.wikipedia.org.

Answer 8

Mary was a very common name. Its was the name of Henry the Eight's daughter by Catherine of Aragon. She earned the nickname of Bloody Mary for her suppression of the new religion. It was Mary Queen of Scots that was beheaded on the orders of Elizabeth the First.

Answer 9

Queen Mary was the elder sister of Elizabeth I - she was NOT beheaded. As her mother was Catholic (Catherine of Aragon) so was she - she may have been our last Catholic Regent. Elizabeth was Protestant. Anyway, Mary is very popular a name with Catholics because of the Virgin Mary - as well as being popular with Protestants for similar reasons - so yes it is a common name in England. By the way, the Queen who was beheaded was another Mary (though from a very similar period in history) - Mary, Queen of Scots

Answer 10

Mary and it's variations is the most common women's name in the world. It was originally the name of a sea nymph. Most famously, it was the name of Jesus's mother making it very common in Catholic countries.

There have been two queens of England and one of Scotland called Mary. Mary I (Bloody Mary) was Henry VIII's elder daughter and reigned before Elizabeth I. Mary Queen of Scots was the exiled queen of Scotland executed by Elizabeth I (She was beheaded with a sword.) Mary II was a daughter of Charles II and reigned jointly with her husband William III (known as William of Orange) after James II was chucked out.

More recently, Queen Mary was the wife of George V and the grandmother of our present queen. She's the one the ships are named after.