This paper is going to be about Mary, A Catholic who refused to compromise. Queen Mary Tudor is only remembered for the evil things she has done, but not remembered on how she had to grow up and live her life. Queen Mary Tudor I of England was born on February 18, 1516 in Greenwich Palace in London,England. She was born to Henry VIII and Catalina De Aragon. Henry married to anne Boleyn but, had her beheaded in 1536 for treason.”For Mary, the sudden ascent of Anne Boleyn signaled the end of her world. Her beloved mother, equally loved by the English people, was being forced aside by a former lady-in-waiting. Her father was determined to declare her a bastard; in effect, Henry’s charge of incest dissolved his marriage and legitimize his daughter”.Henry …show more content…
Mary was named to the Throne after her younger half-brother Edward VI and the execution of Lady Jane Grey, She was known as Lady Jane dudley after her nine days as queen. She was an english noblewoman and queen of England and Ireland from July 10, to July,19 1553. Mary realized that a plot was being hatched to place Jane on the throne. Jane was one of the most compelling characters in tudor history. “She possessed royal blood through her grandmother, Princess Mary Tudor, and this heritage brought her to the scaffold in 1554. Jane had been named heiress to the English throne in her great-uncle Henry VIII‘s will, but only if his son Edward and daughters Mary and Elizabeth died without issue”. A quote was said From Jane to Feckenham, “‘I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. …I ground my faith upon God’s word, and not upon the church… The faith of the church must be tried by God’s word, and not God’s word by the church; neither yet my faith.’ Jane Grey to John Feckenham, 1554”.Mary’s friends had urged her to flee the country since they feared her life would be in