Who is bloody Mary?

Question

I really need to know cause everybody at school talks about this person and how she killed someone or something like that.And I keep on asking who she is and no body anewers me.Does anybdy know who she is?

Answer 1

She is a character in a badly made movie based on this legend... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(person)

Answer 2

Mary I never killed any one but she gave approval for the so called purging of England from Protestants. Another catholic inquisition huh.

Catholics in Elizabeth times tried to assasinate her, the perpetrators were dealt with proper justice, even her cousin Mary queen of Scots suffered the same predicament for plotting.

That is why Elizabeth was never branded as bloody, she just acted to preserve her life.

The son of Mary queen of Scots became the heir of Elizabeth I, his name is James I who later appointed scholars to translate the King James Authorized Version 1611.

If Elizabeth is vengeful then she would not allow James a catholic to succeed her, she would not even let him go in her royal court.

Answer 3

I know someone who is doing research on Bloody Mary RIGHT NOW, and she has all sorts of cool stories about Bloody Mary and where the name came from and who she is -- check out her blog at http://www.rubloodymary.com/

Answer 4

Bloody Mary is an alcoholic drink especially popular for brunch, of vodka and tomato juice. However the historical person was Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII and his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon, half sister to Elizabeth I. She succeeded her half brother Edward after his death and her rival and cousin Lady Jane Grey lost her attempt to claim the throne - and her life. Her cousin's execution, required by the Spanish as a condition of her marriage to their King Phillip II, first earned her the "title" "Bloody Mary" but she also attempted to stop England from becoming Anglican by slaughtering perhaps 300 Protestants; she was Catholic herself. This was a very violent era, with all sides (Protestants of all flavors and Catholics) impoverishing and sometimes killing each other.

See the second link for more info, including why the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary" is inspired by her. See the last link for folklore.

Update: and I hope the thumbs down fairies will post answers, as I wonder what about my informative history-based post offended them so.

Answer 5

She's not that bad. She was the first daughter of King Henry VIII. King Henry kicked the Catholic church out of England for the first time so he could divorce as he pleased. He had another daughter (Elizabeth) and a son (Edward). When he died his son became king but he died without any kids so Mary became queen. She re instituted the Catholic Church and killed all the people who refused to be Catholic. (Sounds bad but I'll tell you something most people don't like to remember) When she died Elizabeth became queen. Elizabeth kicked the Catholics out again. She became the greatest queen England ever had and is one of the best queens of all time in any country. The thing people don't like to remember is that she killed Catholics. She killed more Catholics than Mary killed Protestants. (Yet Mary is remembered as bloody)

The legend of Bloody Mary probably stemmed from the story of Erzsébet Báthory. She was a countess that bathed in blood among many other things. It's important to note that Erzsébet is the Hungarian version of Elizabeth. (The connection between the two Elizabeths is probably where the Bloody Mary story came from)

For those of you who gave me thumbs downs I wasn't finished.

Answer 6

Mary Tudor is the name of both Mary I of England and her father's sister, Mary Tudor, Queen of France.
Mary I
Queen of England and Ireland, Queen Consort of Spain, Sicily and Naples. (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(1516-02-18)

Died 17 November 1558 (aged 42)
St. James's Palace, London
Burial Westminster Abbey, London
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 fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after the uncrowned 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.

Numerous Protestant leaders were executed in the so-called Marian Persecutions. Many rich Protestants chose exile and around 800 left the country. The first to die were John Rogers (4 February 1555), Laurence Saunders (8 February 1555), Rowland Taylor (9 February 1555), and John Hooper, the Bishop of Gloucester (9 February 1555). The persecution lasted for almost four years. It is not known exactly how many died. Foxe estimates in his Book of Martyrs that 284 were executed for their faith, although this work is widely regarded as a biased and unreliable account. The Marian persecutions are commemorated especially by bonfires in the town of Lewes in Sussex: there is a prominent "martyrs' memorial" outside St John's church at Stratford, London, to those Protestants burnt in Essex, and others in Christchurch Park Ipswich and the abbey grounds, Bury St Edmunds, to those executed in East and West Suffolk respectively.

Answer 7

Bloody Mary is Mary Tudor, Mary I queen of England. She is called bloody Mary because under her reign, Protestants were persecuted and executed. The number of people killed was in the thousands.

Answer 8

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp

Answer 9

I think your barking up the wrong tree. Try the women's health section or the bartenders guide.

Answer 10

Ii think you mean Who WAS she .. here

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/queen-mary.html