Why is Mary Tudor nicknamed "Bloody Mary" all the time?

Question

How come Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII, is always refered to as "Bloody Mary?"

Answer 1

Because those who came after her, with perhaps very few exceptions, have been protestants and nicknamed queen Mary that way due to her intolerance towards them.
History is written by the winners.

Had it been the other way, then queen elizabeth would have been the one nicknamed "bloody". By the way, old bessie deserved much more the nickname than Mary.
She killed and tortured more people than Mary

Answer 2

She was know as Blood Mary because during her rein as the queen she spilled a lot of blood with interests in turning the national religion to Roman Catholicism.


I find The royal house of Tudor very interesting. Mary's Mother Catherine of Aragon her father Henry VIII and all of his wives.

Answer 3

She drank a lot.

But seriously, she was a fanatical Catholic and determined to bring England back to Catholicism from the protestant reformation that had developed during the later years of her father's reign and all of her brother's.

Anyone who was not willing to return to Catholicism was severely punished by burning at the stake and other methods. Torture usually preceded these executions.

Because of all the deaths she ordered and condoned she is known to England and history as Bloody Mary. (Perhaps in this context Bloody refers more to the English swear word than actual blood, but over here to us, it means real blood.)

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England#Domestic_politics
Persecutions
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 5

Because she lost the PR battle. In reality she wasn't nearly as bloody as her half sister, Elizabeth, but those she had killed were in the name of a religion that was fairly unpopular at the time, and Elizabeth killed in the name of traitors to the state. Mary was a Catholic. Her father had formed his new religion and tried to wipe out Catholicism. Mary was trying to bring it back. Because the Head of the Church was also the one wearing a crown in Henry's religion, Elizabeth could go after Catholics in the name of protecting the country. Mary didn't have that to fall back on. It's all in the Public Relations hype.

The Virgin Queen by the way was Elizabeth, not Mary.

Answer 6

I read this huge long book about her life. She's called bloody mary because she lived throught the death of many of the people around her. such as her stepmother(died of execution) her husband and her mother was starved to death by her father because her mother did not produce a son.

Answer 7

cause when she was queen for like 5 years, just before she died i think, she sent out people to kill hundreds of her subjects and spilled their blood......or something like that. i forgot i could be wrong, see if this helps:

http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marytudor.html

oh and i read the book called "Mary, Bloody Mary" which was like SUPER good omg. lol

Answer 8

Her father, Henry VIII, was the first Protestant king. When he died, Mary became queen. She was a Catholic and she persecuted non-Catholics. They were tortured and killed.

Answer 9

One of her first decisions as Queen of England was to re-establish the Catholic Church and burn 300 people at the stake for heresy.

Answer 10

She persecuted English protestants by killing them. Historians estimate she had anywhere from 300 to thousands killed, directly or indirectly.