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Mary I |
| Born 1516 |
| Died 1558 |
| Daughter
of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon |
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- Queen of England 1553 to 1558.
- She was known as 'Bloody Mary' because
of the number of people she had killed.
- When Edward VI died and Lady Jane Grey
was made queen, Mary and her supporters quickly took over and
she was made queen.
- In 1554 she married Philip II of Spain
who was heir to the Spanish throne.
- Mary did not have any children.
- She changed the country back to a Catholic
one.
- Mary had all the leading Protestants
like Thomas Cranmer put in prison.
- If people did not accept the Catholic
Church they were punished as heretics. The punishment was death
usually by burning at the stake.
- In 1555 Cranmer and 270 Protestant
priests and other ordinary people were burned at the stake.
- Mary was an unpopular queen.
- She died in 1558.
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