When Mary heard that Jane had been declared Queen, she called for the people to rally to her cause. Mary recognised that Lady Jane had been an innocent pawn, used by the Duke of Northumberland.
She ordered her imprisonment but did not sign a death warrant. Mary became concerned that there would be further risings in favour of Jane. Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guildford were executed on 12th February Her half-brother and his Protestant council had try to by-pass her in the succession but the people had rallied to her cause and she became Queen on 19th July Yet, her reign saw far fewer people executed than either her father or her half-sister Elizabeth.
The decision to marry King Philip II of Spain was not well received by her councillors or her people. Many believed that England would become subject to the rule of Spain. Nevertheless, the marriage went ahead on 25th July Mary desperately wanted to produce an heir to the throne to preserve the Catholic faith. Next in line was her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth.
In , Mary believed she was pregnant. She exhibited all the signs of a pregnancy and even stated that she had felt the child move. However, when no child had appeared by Summer , it became obvious that it was a phantom pregnancy.
Philip left for Spain shortly afterwards. She died on 17th November Elizabeth I became Queen after her sister Mary I died without an heir. In their eyes this made Elizabeth illegitimate and as such should not be queen. When the Queen of Scots fled to England seeking sanctuary from Elizabeth she had no choice but to place her under house arrest. However, she then became the focus of plots to remove Elizabeth from the throne. The Babington Plot was uncovered in The Queen of Scots was executed on 5th February The English navy pursued and harried the Spanish ships through the Channel.
English fireships were used to break the formation of the Armada. Soon afterwards the weather changed and hurricane-force winds dashed Spanish ships on the rocks and blew others into the North Sea. Queen Elizabeth took the decision not to marry. Although she was aware that this decision had consequences for the succession, marriage also had consequences for the country. If she married a foreign prince or king, as Mary had done, then the country would come under the influence of a foreign power.
If she married an English nobleman this could be seen as preferential towards one family and could lead to rivalries and factions within the nobility. He was a serious man and faced many challenges to his place on the throne, the most notable being from Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. In order to gain his divorce, Henry had to establish the Church of England and end Catholicism. Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were executed for treason.
He died in Edward VI came to the throne at the age of 9 years. Edward died at the age of 15 in Mary was a Catholic and had sworn to return England to Catholicism.
Click here to read more about Edward VI. Queen Mary I Bloody Mary - Mary was a devout Roman Catholic. She married Philip, King of Spain. She persecuted the Protestants. Her nickname was Bloody Mary because of the huge numbers of people she murdered to return England from its Protestant regime back to the Catholic faith. Click here to read more about Mary I.
Queen Elizabeth I - During her reign great adventurers discovered many new lands. Fought off the Spanish Armada. Click here to read more about Elizabeth I. House of York Stuarts. You may not redistribute, sell or place the content of this page on any other website or blog without written permission from the Mandy Barrow. Mandy is the creator of the Woodlands Resources section of the Woodlands Junior website.
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