Bloody Mary Research Paper

Abstract
Queen Mary was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She lost her title, her betrothed, and her mother because of her mother’s inability to produce a male heir. She had to fight to gain the thrown after her half-brothers passing. She has been called “Bloody Mary” for centuries because of her prosecution of Protestants. She burned them at the stake for going against her religious policies. She has been thought to be a horrible, murderess person, but she killed less people then her father and did what most other rulers have done to maintain power and control over their people. She was succeeded by her half-sister who treated the Catholic people worse than the Protestants were treated dung Queen Mary’s reign. Bloody Mary: A Title Well Earned?

It all started when her father, King Henry VIII, split from the Catholic Church in order to separate from Mary's mother, Katherine of Aragon, cousin to the Holy Roman Emperor. After the separation Mary was declared an illegitimate child and asked, more like told, to renounce her title as princess. Later as her father had two other children, first Elizabeth and then Edward, life got harder for her, she was expected to become Elizabeth’s maid of honor and serve her half-sister. Both of her half siblings was raised protestant while she was raised catholic. At the beginning of her life she betrothed to her mother’s cousin, king of the Spanish throne and holy roman emperor, but was later nullified because he wanted to produce heirs and could not wait any longer. She was then betrothed to the prince of France to create peace between the two countries. After her father’s death her half-brother ascended the throne, running the country as a Protestant, he made laws against practicing the Catholic religion, which his half-sister disobeyed; practicing her religion at her own castle. Queen Mary was declared an illegitimate child and forced to leave her role as princess of England. She was forced to take her thrown for Lady Jane Seymour. She burned three-hundred Protestants at the stake and imprisoned her own