bloody mary?

Question

y was she called that and please elabotate

Answer 1

O WOW! I had to do a report on her. Here's a copy of it w/ sources.

Queen ‘Bloody’ Mary I



Queen ‘Bloody’ Mary I was a Roman Catholic queen in a newly Protestant country. In restoring England to her true faith, Mary had ordered the burning and torture of over 300 Protestant heretics, and drove thousands to flee from England ’s shores.

“The name of Mary has been covered with obloquy by reason of the unrelenting persecution of the Protestants in her reign….her temper had been soured in youth by the harshness and injustices that insulted the honour of her mother and the religion to which she was sincerely attached. Her zeal for her faith hardened into fierce bigotry and by the persecuting spirit this feeling engendered, she unwittingly helped forward the cause of the Reformation in England .”— H.W. Dulcken , A Popular History of England (1906)

Mary was of short stature with a spare and delicate frame. In her younger years she was considered to be a beauty of exceeding mediocrity. Her brow was sprinkled with wrinkles long before her time, caused more by anxieties than by age, which made her appear some years older. It was said that her eyes were so piercing that they inspired not only respect, but fear in those whom she fixed them, even though she was shortsighted. Her voice was rough and loud, almost like a man’s, so that when she spoke she was heard a long way off. In a word she was a seemly woman.

Intellectually she could quickly understand something that would be incomprehensible to others. She was skilled in five languages, not only being able to understand but to also speak four of them fluently: English, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian. Mary also practiced music, playing particularly on the clavichord and the lute. She played so well that she surprised “the best players” at how well she played.

Internally Mary was sudden and passionate and miserly, rather more so that would become a queen. She had no notable imperfections. She was brave, valiant, courageous and resolute that neither in adversity nor peril did she ever commit an act of cowardice, maintaining a wonderful demeanor and dignity. She was known to being very depressed; weeping for no reason and she was always being blooded either from the foot or elsewhere, which kept her looking pale and gaunt.

Mary was born to King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine of Aragon , at the palace of Greenwich on February 18, 1516 . She was a healthy baby and gave every indication of surviving. After her christening, in which she was named Mary after the King's younger sister, she was sent to live in her own household. The staff was attired in her favorite colours of blue and green. Mary had a good childhood as a young Princess and was the center of attention in her earliest years. On special occasions Mary was brought to court and Henry, fond of babies, liked to carry and show her off around court claiming that “she never cries”. As she grew, she combined her father's fair complexion with her mother's grey eyes along with their red hair. She was always small for her age and bordered on being overly thin. Henry liked to show her off to foreign visitors and was known to take off her cap to reveal her long hair. At the age of two she was engaged for the first time, to the dauphin of France .

When Henry’s mistress had his by-blow, Katherine was infuriated, because she feared Henry would name his illegitimate son his successor. Instead, Henry sent Mary, at the age of eight years old, to Ludlow castle in Wales with an establishment of her own. Ludlow , being a seat of power, was associated with the Prince of Wales and from where they were governed. Mary was sent there as a first step of her future role as heir to the throne. As the years progressed and no little brothers followed, Mary’s father began to look into the alternatives. When she returned to court in 1527, Mary no longer had to worry about her half brother, because her father had fallen in love. He sought and annulment form Katherine and married his second Queen: Anne Boleyn.

In April 1533 Mary received two notes from Henry, the first announcing his marriage to Anne Boleyn, the second stating that she must no longer write to Katherine. She begged to be able to write one last letter but was refused. Mary was declare illegitimate and was to no longer be called “princess”, but rather “The Lady Mary”. Mary, separated from her mother, lived her early teen years in confusion. In September 7th Anne gave birth to a daughter, Mary was sent to attend the new you Princess in her household. She was not going to accept the mildly and wrote a letter to the King expressing her concern that she had no doubt that he would “take me for you lawful daughter born in true matrimony. If I agreed to the contrary I should offend God; in all other things Your Highness shall find me an obedient daughter.” The King responded that she had forgotten her filial duty in “arrogantly usurping the title of “Princess”. But she remained defiant. Henry was angry and sent the Duke of Norfolk to her in December. She was told to pay her respects to the princess. Mary replied that she knew no other princess in England except herself but since the king had acknowledged Elizabeth as his, she was willing to call her ‘sister’ as she called the duke of Richmond ‘brother’. Given the worst room in the house, Mary was also forced to hand oner her jewels to the baby and her servants were dismissed.

Mary was placed under the authority of Lady Shelton, Anne Boleyn's aunt, who had been instructed by the King that if Mary was troublesome to give her a good beating. When Henry came to visit Elizabeth, Mary was ordered to be locked in her room. On one occasion knowing that Henry was leaving she went out onto the tower to look at him. When he saw her there he saluted and rode away. In September of 1534, Mary became dangerously ill. It was thought that Anne was poisoning Mary.

The greatest test came with Henry's Oath of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. The Oath of Succession declared Henry's marriage with Katherine as unlawful and his marriage to Anne Boleyn lawful and her children as legitimate. The Oath of Supremacy declared Henry as the supreme head of the Church of England and declared that the Pope no longer had authority in England . Mary heard through Elizabeth 's ladies that the King had decided to cut off her head if she refused to take the oaths. Mary was now sufficiently afraid to begin to plan escape from England to safe haven on the continent. These plans occupied much of her days and contained scenarios of Mary drugging the household in order to escape unnoticed, or while out walking to be abducted by horsemen whom would take her to a waiting ship. She had to be convinced by the Emperor Charles' ambassador Eustace Chapuys that it was too risky for her to think of escape.

Soon Elizabeth would be declared a bastard as well, since her mother also failed to produce a male heir for Henry. In May, Anne Boleyn was arrested and tried for adultery. The day before her execution, her marriage to Henry was annulled and Elizabeth became illegitimate as well as becoming Lady Elizabeth.

The King sent over the Duke of Norfolk and members of the Privy Council to demand from Mary that she sign articles, renouncing papal supremacy and declaring her mother's marriage to Henry unlawful. She considered this a betrayal of her mother and refused to sign. The Duke of Norfolk told her that if she were his daughter he would "beat her and knock her head so violently against the wall that it would make it as soft as a baked apple," and that she was a traitor, therefore should be punished. Henry's first reaction was to demand her arrest and send her to the Tower. The Counselors interceded and asked to be sent to Mary one last time. Worn out and afraid, Mary signed the articles on Thursday, June 15th, 1536 . She begged the King to forgive her and that she knew she had offended him. Six months later she was finally allowed to return to court. She was now twenty years old. Henry had not spoken to her since she was fifteen.

Anne Boleyn hated Mary. She had an easy time over turning Henry’s affection toward Katherine but to his daughter she found a harder bond to sever. In the early days, after Katherine had been sent away, Henry continued to see Mary. He visited her at her residences, she still came to court, and they played music and hunted together. Both Henry and Mary enjoyed hunting. He had given her a goshawk as a child and taught her how to hunt, but evidence of their changing relationship happened after a hunt when they stood in a field. At the appearance of members of the Boleyn family, Henry told Mary to leave, which she willingly did so. In time it was easier for Henry to give into Anne’s continued arguments that Mary needed to be taught a lesson than it was to resist. Henry stopped seeing his daughter and followed in Anne’s lead to “pull down this high spirit.” Anne once stated that Mary will be “the cause of my death unless I get rid of her first”, and there is some evidence that she may have plotted to have Mary poisoned.

Shortly after the death of Anne Boleyn, Henry wed Jane Seymour at the age of 27, who sought to reconcile the King with his two daughters. Henry and Jane visited Mary and after, she wrote letters to the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope stating that her parents’ marriage had not been valid. Mary was able to get an additional message to them saying that she wrote the letter under duress. After that, she returned to court although her title of Princess had not been restored. Jane Seymour was an ally of Mary and began the campaign to reconcile Henry with her. When Henry agreed, Mary was brought to court to the presence of the king and queen.

Jane was greatly accommodating to Mary, allowing her to sit near her at the table, and allowed her to walk beside her instead of behind her. She was not able to change Mary's title back to Princess but she did much in a short time to bring back to Mary some of the status she had lost. Jane was also the only wife to fulfill Henry's greatest wish, that of a son.

In October 1537, Queen Jane gave birth to Edward, Henry's longed for son. Mary stood as the young Prince's godmother at the christening. The court was soon plunged into mourning as Jane died two weeks after Edward's birth.

Between 1537 and 1540 Mary watched as Henry carried out the dissolution of the monasteries. She was known to give charity to displaced nuns and monks who came to her. Mary was also a continuing pawn in Henry's matchmaking. During this time she was a promised bride to five men. Unfortunately for Mary, who longed for the romantic idea of marriage and children, she was never married during her father's life. She began to believe that things might be better for her if she never married. She continued to fill her life with her books, playing instruments, riding, hunting and looking after the young Elizabeth and Edward. But she had and overriding feeling of uselessness which manifested itself in illness which in turn worried prospective bridegrooms who sent envois to inquire about her frailness and ability to bear children.

In January 1540, Mary gained yet another stepmother: Anne of Cleves. Although they shared different religions, the two women became fast friends. Unfortunately Anne's marriage to Henry wasn't so long lived and she was divorced in July of the same year.

Shortly after the annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves, Henry took another wife, now his fifth; he was infatuated by one of Anne's appointed ladies in waiting, Catherine Howard. Catherine was probably eighteen years old, making Mary six years older than her new stepmother. Mary was appalled at her father's actions. At the beginning of the marriage Mary did not get along with Catherine; but after the bad beginnings there seems to have been a truce between them. This was to be short lived, when the scandal of Catherine's unfaithfulness became known all three of Henry's children were sent off into the country. Catherine was executed in 1542 and Henry was brokenhearted.

In 1543, eighteen months after Catherine Howard's execution Henry married his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, Lady Latymer, who was about four years older than Mary. All three of Henry's children attended the wedding at Hampton Court . Mary was friends with her lateset stepmother, although they too had different religious views. Mary delighted in her new stepmother. Catherine regarded her as a sister instead of a daughter. Mary was now more frequently at court since the 1530's she showered Mary with jewels and money and most importantly, treating her as a royal princess. Catherine was concerned about Mary's health and sent her medications and other treatments. She even gave Mary pocket money because Mary had developed a taste for gambling.

By Christmas Henry VIII began to fall ill and knew he was dying. He drafted his will declaring that Edward would be his heir and Mary was to follow him if the young Prince were to die childless. Mary was sent at his side and he told her he was unhappy that he had not had her married as he had wished. He died on January 28, 1547 . After his death Catherine married her former suitor Thomas Seymour.

Edward died on July 6, 1553 . Mary realized that a plot was being hatched to place Jane on the throne. She had been urged by some friends to flee the country since they feared her life would be in danger. Mary knew that if she fled, she would forfeit all chances of becoming Queen and returning England to Catholicism, so she chose to remain and make a stand for her crown. Shortly afterwards, Northumberland informed Jane at Syon house that Edward had left the crown to her and that she was now Queen of England. Mary, meanwhile, was in East Anglia . Northumberland and three of his sons went to take Mary into custody. Mary was at this time moving around with a growing army of supporters. She knew that he must have confirmation of her brother's death, because it would be treason to declare herself Queen otherwise. She received news from a reliable source that Edward was indeed dead, and promptly sent proclamations throughout the country announcing her accession to the throne.

Mary went to Framingham Castle in Suffolk , which was better fortified. Her number of supporters was increasing and Mary took time to inspect her troops personally. The people of Suffolk were flocking to Mary and many of the leaders who were supposed to take her into custody instead went and begged for her pardon.

By this time, the Privy Council in London realized their error in going along with Northumberland's plot and declared Mary the true Queen of England. She left Framingham for London on July 24.

Of the conspirators who tried to place Jane on the throne, only a few were initially executed, including the Duke of Northumberland. Jane and Guildford were found guilty of treason, but Mary refused to execute them. Guildford 's brothers, the other three sons of John Dudley, were kept in the Tower, but not killed. The Duke of Suffolk, Jane Grey's father, was released.

As Mary approached the outskirts of London , she was met by her sister Elizabeth, who offered her congratulations and rode in a place of honor with the new Queen. When Mary made her formal entry into London on the 30th of September, Elizabeth and the surviving wife of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, rode in a chariot behind the Queen's in the great procession.

On the morning of October 1, Mary made the short walk from Westminster Palace to the Abbey across the street for her coronation. It was nearly five o'clock before the ceremony was finished and the court made its way back to Westminster Palace for the banquet in the Great Hall.

Parliament met four days after the coronation and in the second session, Mary began to introduce the legislations that she had long hoped for. First, there was an act proclaiming Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon valid and legal. This act passed with little resistance. However, the other main act was to repeal all the religious laws passed in the reign of Edward VI, and this didn't pass as easily.

The next step for Mary was to begin searching for a suitable husband. One of the possibilities was Edward Courtenay, who had spent most of his life in the Tower. He was younger than Mary, but he was one of the last descendants of the House of York and one of the most obvious choices for a husband. One of Courtrenay's greatest attractions in the view of the people was that he was an Englishman, not a foreign Prince.

However, the Emperor Charles V, who had been an instrumental advisor to the English Queen, had other idea and was already making plans to suggest his son, Prince Philip of Spain as Mary's best choice of husband. The ambassador formally suggested this to the Queen a short time after her coronation. After much thought and prayer on the matter, Mary accepted the proposal. Negotiations of the contract began, although the public sentiment was not in favor of the match.

During this time, plots were being hatched to depose Mary and place Elizabeth and Edward Courtenay on the throne. It turns out that there were a total of four plots at hand. One involved Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Duke of Suffolk who would lead rebel armies from various parts of England . Wyatt's army reached London , but the rebellion was put down at the city gates. He and his fellow conspirators were arrested.

Mary realized the mistake she had made before in her merciful treatment of Northumberland's rebels, and vowed not to make it again. In all, roughly 100 rebels were hung, although the Queen pardoned 400 others. Lady Jane Grey and her husband would also have to be put to death now, as they may be the possible focal point for another rebellion. Edward Courtenay was put back in the Tower where he had spent much of his life. Elizabeth had been summoned to London for questioning and was eventually imprisoned in the Tower as well, although she was later sent to Woodstock .

In March, 1554, Mary acted in a proxy betrothal, with the Count of Egmont standing in for Prince Philip. He eventually set sail for England on July 12, arriving at the Isle of Wight a week later. On July 23, he arrived at Winchester where he would meet his bride for the first time. It is not known exactly what language they used to converse, but Philip and Mary talked into the evening and by all appearances seemed to be getting along well.The marriage took place two days after their meeting, on July 25th, the day of St. James- patron saint of Spain . After the wedding, they were proclaimed:

Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France and Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and the Tyrol. After dancing and dinner, the couple was put to bed in accordance with the ancient blessing ritual.

In September, one of the Queen's physicians announced that she was pregnant. In fact, she did seem to show many of the signs including nausea and an enlarging belly.

Meanwhile, Mary began to act on her intention to restoring the Catholic faith in England . The nobles were allowed to keep the lands gained in the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, but the Queen encouraged returning former Church property and set an example by doing so herself. The medieval heresy laws were restored by Parliament, which meant that heretics could be killed, and their property and holdings given over to the Crown.

In January 1555, the arrests began. John Hooper, John Rogers and John Cardmaster were arrested after they refused to cease their heretical activities and put on trial. All three were condemned to be burnt at the stake.

Instead of discouraging the Protestants, the burnings mainly served to increase their hatred of the Queen. In all about 275 people died and were later included in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs. It was because of these burnings that the Queen gained the epitaph "Bloody Mary”.

As Mary's pregnancy progressed, Philip began to make plans for the succession if the Queen were to die in childbirth, a relatively common occurrence in Tudor England. Mary would most likely want to exclude Elizabeth from the throne, which meant that the crown would then fall to Mary Queen of Scots, who was about to marry the son of the King of France and was unacceptable for Spanish interests. Philip suggested marrying Elizabeth to a Catholic: Philibert, Duke of Savoy.

Mary had refused to allow Philip and Elizabeth to meet, but in April when the Court moved to Hampton Court Palace Elizabeth was brought there as well. She had few visitors and had not been granted an audience with the Queen, since she was still in disgrace. However, one evening the Queen sent over a rich dress to Elizabeth with the message that she was to wear it that evening. She met the King and was later brought into see the Queen. Foxe records that Philip was hiding behind a tapestry during the interview. At the end, Mary agreed to welcome Elizabeth at court.

Mary had retreated into privacy awaiting the birth of her child, as was customary. She waited for the labor pains to begin, but her due date came and went without the birth of a child. The doctors predicted the child would come on June 6, then June 24, and then finally July 3... but none came to pass.

It is thought that Mary did in fact suffer what is called a 'phantom pregnancy' arising from her great wish to have a child. She may have actually been pregnant at some point, but miscarried, or the child died and was not properly expelled. Whatever the case, it became quite clear that the Queen was not going to give birth, since it was now nearly a year after she was first reported to be with child.

After a while, Mary began to receive again and the signs of her "pregnancy" disappeared. The subject was not brought up in the Queen's presence.

In August, Philip left England to conduct business for Spain in the Netherlands . The Queen was overcome with sadness at his departure and wrote to him almost daily.

Meanwhile, the trials and burnings continued. In January 1555 the arrests began. Almost 300 people, among them several former bishops, were condemned to be burnt at the stake as a result of trials for heresy. This large number of religious persecutions, that took place during her reign, gave her the by name – "Bloody Mary". Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were condemned and burnt at the stake in October 1555. In March 1556, Thomas Cranmer followed, thrusting his right hand into the fire first because it had signed his earlier recantation of the Protestant faith.

Philip eventually returned to England in March 1557. Shortly afterwards, England declared war on France following a raid on Scarborough, England by Thomas Stafford, who had been in exile in France. The French King Henry II denied initiating the raid.

Philip lead forces into France and took the town of St. Quentin and surrounding lands. But France struck back and took the city of Calais , the last foothold of England on the Continent. It had been in English hands since 1347.

With this loss came some good news, however. The Queen was sure she was pregnant again, now at the age of 42. She entered seclusion in late February 1558, thinking her confinement for labor would come in March. Those around her seemed to have doubts about the validity of this pregnancy after the earlier incident.

On March 30, Mary drafted her will and it is worded in such a way to portray that the Queen thought she was indeed with child. But, by April, no child had come and the Queen knew that she was once again mistaken. After the symptoms began to fade, Mary was left quite ill. From then on, she became progressively worse. In late October, she added the codicil to her will but did not expressly name Elizabeth as her heir in it.

The Queen drifted in and out of consciousness, but at one point was lucid enough to agree to pass the crown to her half sister, adding that she hoped Elizabeth would maintain the Catholic faith in England . It was around this time that Philip learned of the death of both his father and his aunt.

On November 16, 1558 , Mary's will was read aloud keeping with custom. She was lucid during the Mass held in her chamber the next morning. The priest performed the last rights, and the Queen passed.





Bibliography

Biography: "Bloody" Mary I. April 14th, 2004 .

Mary I. E-Library. April 13th, 2004

Mary, Queen of England . E-Library. April 13th, 2004

Mary Tudor. April 14th, 2004 .

Tabler, Judith A. The Long Road to the Throne. E-Library. April 13th, 2004 .

Twiss, Miranda. "Bloody" Mary I. New York . Barnes & Nobles. 2002. pg. 85-97.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Mary Tudor is the name of both Mary I of England and her father's sister, Mary Tudor.
Queen Mary
Queen of England (more...)

Reign 19 July 1553–17 November 1558
Coronation 1 October 1553
Predecessor Lady Jane Grey
Successor Elizabeth I
Issue
None
Royal house Tudor
Father Henry VIII
Mother Catherine of Aragon
Born 18 February 1516

Died 17 November 1558 (aged 42)

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death on 17 November 1558.

Mary, the fifth monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after Jane Grey and before Elizabeth I, is remembered for briefly returning England to Roman Catholicism. To this end, she had almost three hundred religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as Bloody Mary. Her reestablishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her successor and half-sister, Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Mary and Elizabeth were both first cousins once-removed of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of their aunt Margaret Tudor.

Answer 4

..............Urban Legends....................
................Bloody Mary.................
Open the link below to read all of the variations of the story.

It was said that she was a witch that was executed 100 years ago for dabbling in the black arts. Or a woman of more modern times that died in a car crash and her face was horribly mutilated. There are so many variations of the story it would be hard to guess which story to tell.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp

oldhippypaul He doesn't give a source but sure has one heck of a story.

Answer 5

because she was queen of england i believe and she ruled after king henry the 8th because she was his oldest daugther...she was called bloody mary because she was mean and she would have many people beheaded

Answer 6

there is no such thing as bloody mary
if you do not believe in it, there ain't no such thing

Answer 7

look it up one en wikipedia

Answer 8

yum...