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3 giorni fa · Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
- July 1553 –, 17 November 1558
- Catherine of Aragon
5 giorni fa · Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. [a] The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour , Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant . [2]
- 28 January 1547 – 6 July 1553
- Jane Seymour
29 mar 2024 · Mary I, the first queen to rule England (1553–58) in her own right. She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Catholicism to England. Learn more about Mary’s life and reign in this article.
- Who were Mary I’s parents?Mary was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, the Spanish-born princess Catherine of Aragon. Henry separated from Catherine in 1531...
- What was Mary I’s childhood like?Mary’s early years were spent as a diplomatic tool of her father, as she was promised as a wife to several potential allies. After Henry married An...
- How did Mary I become famous?After the death of Edward VI, Henry’s only surviving male heir, Mary became queen of England. A devoted Roman Catholic, she attempted to restore Ca...
- How did Mary I die?Mary had a fragile constitution and suffered a series of illnesses throughout her life. She also had at least two false pregnancies, the last of wh...
29 mar 2024 · John Dudley, duke of Northumberland was an English politician and soldier who was the virtual ruler of England from 1549 to 1553, during the minority of King Edward VI. Almost all historical sources regard him as an unscrupulous schemer whose policies undermined England’s political stability.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · Gold coin of 1553: obverse, coat of arms of Scotland; reverse, royal monogram King Henry VIII of England took the opportunity of the regency to propose marriage between Mary and his own son and heir, Edward , hoping for a union of Scotland and England.
4 apr 2024 · Nicholas Ridley (born c. 1500, /03, South Tynedale, Northumberland, Eng.—died Oct. 16, 1555, Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a Protestant martyr, one of the finest academic minds in the early English Reformation. Ridley attended Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest ( c. 1524).
3 giorni fa · The life and death of Charles V, who ruled Europe’s greatest empire from Brussels. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate ...
