Mary I Flashcards
When was Mary I crowned Queen?
19th July 1553
What were the main concerns at the beginning of Mary’s reign from the people of England?
She was still illegitimate, she was Catholic, fear of her devotion to her Spanish blood and she was a woman!
How does John Knox describe the idea of women ruling?
“Repugnant to nature”, “unnatural and insulting to God”
Who was Mary’s first marriage interest?
Edward Courtenay, who didn’t want to marry her.
When and what was the Wyatt Rebellion?
January 1554: 3000 men marched with Wyatt to London over concern of Mary’s marriage to Phillip and over her determination to return England to Papal Authority.
What happened to Elizabeth as a result of the Wyatt Rebellion?
She was imprisoned
When was Mary expecting to give birth to a child?
The spring of 1555
When were Lady Jane Grey and Guilford executed?
12th February 1554
When were Mary and Phillip married?
25th July 1554
When and what was the Heresy Act?
January 1555: Heresy is reinstated as being treason and therefore able to be punished by execution (heresy = going against the set religion at the time)
When does Mary I die?
17th November 1558
When was Thomas Cranmer executed? (And what religion was he?)
21st March 1556: he was a Protestant who granted Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon
When was the harvest failure during Mary’s reign?
1556
When did the war with France begin during Mary’s reign?
1557
When was the influenza epidemic during Mary’s reign?
1557-1558
