Mary Tudor biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mary Tudor

Author Name:

Mary Tudor

Born As:

Queen Mary I of England and Queen of Ireland

Other Names:

Born:

18 Feb 1516

Died:

17 Nov 1558




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Mother Catherine of Aragon
Father Henry VIII of England, only surviving child.
Husband Philip II of Spain                          
The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
Restored England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI, to the English throne.

Had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions, earning her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary".                          
Mary Tudor is the name of both Mary I of England and her father's sister, Mary Tudor - Queen consort of France.