MARY I

Born: 18 February 1516 Greenwich Palace

Proclaimed Queen: 19 July 1553 St. Paul's
Cathedral, London
Coronation: 1 October 1553 Westminster Abbey
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragón.
Married Philip (Spanish).
No Children.
Died: 17 November 1558 St. James's Palace
Buried: 14 December 1558 Westminster Abbey

 Mary I was the first Queen Regnant (that is, a queen reigning in her own
right rather than a queen through marriage to a king).
 Mary was known as Mary Tudor, was the queen of England and Ireland
from July 1553 until her death.

 Mary was the eldest daughter of Henry Vlll by his first wife Katherine of
Aragon. She was named after Henry's favourite sister, Mary Tudor (the 'Tudor
Rose').

 Mary came to the throne after contesting the 14 day reign of the
uncrowned Lady Jane Grey, grandaughter of Mary Tudor, who had been
named by Edward VI as his successor.
 Mary was a committed Catholic. When she came to the throne she vowed to
return England to Rome and Catholicism. Mary reunited the English
Church with Rome
 In 1555 banned English translations of the Bible.

 She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English
Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII.

 She restored to the Church some of the property taken from it in the
previous two reigns. She was not able to legislate to force those who, at that
time, held property which had been plundered from the Catholic Church and
the monasteries.
  Mary made herself even more unpopular by marrying Philip of Spain and
losing Calais, England's last possession in France. They had no children.
 She is known as Bloody Mary because of the numbers of people who were
executed for being Protestants. Mary burned nearly 300 Protestants at the
stake when they refused to give up their religion.

Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen by

Northumberland The citizens of London
supported Mary  Lady Jane Grey her
husband, and father were arrested, and
1553
Northumberland was executed.  Mary
now set herself to restore the old religion
(Catholic) and reconcile her kingdom
with the Pope.

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion easily

suppressed. It led to the execution of
1554 Lady Jane Grey, her husband, father, and
uncle. MARY MARRIED PHILIP THE
SECOND OF SPAIN.
The statutes of Henry the Fourth and
Fifth against heretics were revived. 
1555
Bishops Hooper, Ridley, Latimer, and
many others, were burnt at the stake.
Emperor Charles the Fifth
abdicated and succeeded by
Cranmer was burnt at Oxford.  The new his brother Ferdinand the
1556 Archbishop of Canterbury was Cardinal First in the Empire, and by his
Pole. son Philip the second in
Spain, Naples, and Sicily. 
Charles became a monk.

Mary declared war against France. The

1557
first Covenant signed at Edinburgh.
1558 Calais is captured by the French, after
having been in English hands for two
hundred and eleven years.  The Queen of
Scots (aka Mary Queen of Scots) married
Francis, Dauphin of France. Death of
Mary on the eve of a great national revolt.