was she aware that by converting it would save her life, or was she just so devout a protestant it meant more to her than staying alive?
2007-10-21 18:24:01 · 7 answers · asked by adams girl 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
In those days religion was a really major issue. Just being one religion or another was enough to get you executed. People didn't just switch from one religion to another without careful thought. From what I have read, Lady Jane Grey was very religious and probably would have been very angry at Mary trying to persuade her to change religion. If she believed strongly enough (and many do even now) she may have chosen to die rather than change religion.
2007-10-21 18:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by Babs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lady Jane Grey was not as politically savvy as Mary Tudor. Her place in succession was used by those around her to further their political ambitions.
It should be remembered that she was still very young at the time and would have gone along with what her elders and the Protestant dukes convinced her to do.
These were the people who had been advising Edward VI ( only 13 at death) and wanted to block the apparent heir on the basis of her Catholicism.
It was a matter of what she believed to be set for her by God.
2007-10-22 05:38:04 · answer #2 · answered by EdgeWitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oddly some People actually do believe in the concept of Heaven and Hell and for Lady Jane Grey the way to salvation was through Protestantism, therefore paying lip service to Catholicism would be lying and being beheaded far worse than betraying God..... Lady Jane Grey was also a fatalist aware that she was being used as a Pawn in this matter and if she were to live she would continue to be used and thus best to be done with the entire issue.... Sometimes a noble death is better to contenplate than an ignoble life..
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2007-10-22 05:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Jane Grey was installed as Queen to prevent the Catholic Mary from assuming the throne, so there was no chance of her converting to Catholicism. She reigned only nine days, was abandoned by her father, who's idea it originally was, and she along with her father and husband were tried for treason. She was sentenced to death in November 1553.
Her father was subsequently pardoned, but following a further rebellion, he, along with Jane and her husband were beheaded in February 1554.
2007-10-22 01:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lady Jane, had one of the hardest lives in the Tudor court, she was regularly beaten by her parents, as she said herself "whether sitting, moving, working, dancing, praying, silent or talking" everything she did was wrong.
She found in Lutheranism an answer to her suffering, as she believed one had to suffer to make your way to God.
In modern terms I suppose she would be termed as having depression as even before her trial she was convinced she would die and was quite looking forward to it as she thought then she would have peace. She believed she would burn in hell if she converted so to her there was no point saving her body if the soul was damned.
2007-10-22 10:10:55 · answer #5 · answered by Captain Shamrock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As with many religious conflicts. It has nothing to do with religion, but power. No conversion could save anything. Just like the good christian women that were killed during the witch trials, there were other reasons.
2007-10-22 02:18:06 · answer #6 · answered by LOR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she was that devout. She apprarently sincerely believed that her soul would go to hell if she converted, or even made a pretence of converting.
2007-10-22 01:45:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋