Name: Mary Tudor Birth Year: 1516 Birth date: February 18, 1516 Birth City: Palace of Placentia (Greenwich, England) Birth Country: United Kingdom Gender: Female Best Known For: Mary Tudor was the first queen regnant of England, reigning from 1553 until her death in 1558. She is best kn...
In 1565 Mary gave into infatuation and married her cousin, Henry Stewart, Earl of Darnley. Mary's new husband was a grandson of Margaret Tudor; Mary uniting with a Tudor infuriated Elizabeth Tudor. Her marriage to Darnley also turned Mary's half-brother against her. Shortly after their marr...
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(2) However, It was very important to Henry that his wife should give birth to a male child. Without a son to take over from him when he died, Henry feared that the Tudor family would lose control of England. While Mary was not the desired male heir, she was still a valuable asset...
David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 440. See also, Lou Taylor, Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983), 104. Google ...
For me, it is because she is yet another important Tudor woman whose life story should be better known. The fact we know so little about her – even the year of her birth is a mystery —intrigued me. Catherine was the daughter of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’...
On the day of Thomas Seymour’s execution,she supposedly stated: “This day died a man with much wit and very little judgement.” Worse was to come. In 1553, Elizabeth’s half-sister, Mary Tudor (Catherine of Aragon’s Catholic daughter) became England's first female monarch. Elizabeth no...
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