What were some of mary tudor's accomplishments?

Answer 1

Well, she created quite a legacy for herself as Bloody Mary! Is burning protestants an accomplishment? :) (check out the source for more)
Here's some:
Mary had from the start intended to restore the papal supremacy over the Church of England. She began secret negotiations with the Pope soon after becoming Queen. The Pope appointed the Englishman, Cardinal Reginald Pole, to be his legate in England. Pole was a grandson of Edward IV's brother the Duke of Clarence and a distant cousin of Mary. His mother, the Countess of Salisbury, had been Mary's godmother and governess and had been executed by King Henry VIII in 1541. Reginald had fled from England and began his career in Rome. Pole advised Mary to move quickly in returning England to Rome but Mary argued that this would take time. There were political problems and she suggested that it would be easier to persuade the Parliament and the people to accept papal supremacy if the Pope would agree to leave the confiscated monastic lands in the hands of the present owners. At first Pole did not agree but after a year the Pope agreed. In 1555 Mary was able to return to the Franciscan and Dominican monks the monasteries still in the possession of the crown that had not been given to private individuals. Pole arrived in England in November of 1554. By Christmas Parliament had passed 'An Act for the Renewing of The Three Statues made for the Punishment of Heresies', which reinstated the Act for the Burning of Heretics of 1401. The burnings began in February, 1555.

The fear that overcame Mary after the Wyatt rebellion led to the burning of the Protestants. Up until that time she had appeared lenient and fair but her attitude changed completely when she sensed that she could never feel completely safe until all heretics were shown the outcome of disobedience. The majority of the populace had changed religion under the assumption that it was their duty to do as their sovereign told them. But they had great respect for those who were willing to be martyrs and did not see them on the road to Hell as Mary did, but on the road to Heaven. They lined the roads as the condemned made their way to the stake and asked their blessing. Instead of showing the people the error of heresy it turned them into supporters of the heretics and many began to speak out against the burnings. Those who showed sympathy to the heretics were also to be arrested. New Protestant leaders began to put their own ideas about the rights of sovereigns in their pamphlets and forwarded the concept that if a ruler was wicked it was the duty of the people to resist.

Answer 2

Her accomplishments were minimal, she managed to alienate everyone including her half-brother, and cousin, Elizabeth, she was the Queen of England at first and then replaced, her marriage to Philip II was incredibly in poor taste since he was Catholic and Mary Tudor became a Catholic as well and restored the lands to the Catholics that her tyrant father took away when he enforced,the Protestant Religion. This was a problem and her husband being a Spaniard forced a War with France and in turn threatened England's stability, so they conspired to defeat Mary and did. Philip was killed and she married several times after, her worst enemy was John Knox, and worked side by side to replace her and with Elizabeth to execute her cousin, Mary had been associated with 300 executions of people that opposed the Catholic Church, but John Knox wanted to restore the Protestant rulership in Scotland and did. Let us say Mary lost her head. I want to add that Mary Queen of Scots, did no where near the damage that Great Britain has done or did in the executions and torture for the Protestant Religion, their crimes were far worse, in the name of G-D they did everything including raping women and children. Britain used the church as a home free method and political belief only there was never anything holy about it, in any religion. As it were it was the Spanish inquisitors that were the worst in the Catholic Faith and that was her husband not her. And she did not want to go to war, her husband did. It seems she was a faithful and dutifull woman that was surrounded by many people that were unjust and most of them were products of incest.

Answer 3

She burned Protestants - if you think that an 'accomplishment'.

She gave Phillip II of Spain quasi-legitimate grounds to support Irish rebels and a long war against England as part of his 'claim' to the Throne - if that was an 'accomplishment'!

Answer 4

Other than ultimately failing to restore Catholicism to England, not much.

She survived a ruthless Father,was jealous of her sister, Elizabeth, yet could never bring herself to kill her, though she never hesitated to kill heretics.
Elizabeth on the other hand was cool. She showed herself to be a strong ruler in what was really a Man's World. She's much more interesting.

Answer 5

She killed a lot of protestants along with her cousin Jane Grey (who was queen for 9 days) she died from a tumor in her stomach (everyone thought she was pregnant, but really she just had a huge tumor)

Answer 6

Lopping off Protestant heads.

Answer 7

She survived her murderous father.