Is Queen Mary The First - 1042 Words

Daniel Blizzard Class: Reading 2b Teacher: Ms. Cary Word court is 703 2nd 9 weeks Research Paper Who was Queen Mary the first? Queen Mary the first was an interesting person in history. She did many things in the short time she was in power. In my paper, I’m going to talk about her family, what she did during her rule, the way she controlled the economics of Europe, and the standard of life during Mary’s life time. Let me tell you more. There are many reasons Mary’s family was important to the way she was. Mary was the only child that lived although she was unhealthy, so her mother, Katherine of Aragon, loved her a lot. Mary’s father, King Henry the Eighth, loved her as a child because he could send her to Noblemen, to other†¦show more content†¦(Englishhistorry.net/..1mary1.html) After her father’s death, Mary’s Edward, her half-brother took power. She was able to be queen because her half-brother Edward restored her claim, despite Protestants trying to choose someone else. Queen Mary the first did many things in the short time she was in power. Queen Mary only ruled for five years, which was a short empowerment for someone. According to Ryan Lindbuchler, (departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marytudor.html), Mary was the first reigning queen since the disputed Mathilda in the 12th Century. Mary got the nickname Bloody Mary because during her reign, she had more than three hundred people burned at the stake for heresy because they refused to covert to being Catholic (departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marytudor.html). Most historians consider her reign to be very unfruitful in that she never was able to fulfill her dream of returning England to the Roman Catholic Church since her attempt to convert back to Catholicism was stopped after her d eath(departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marytudor.html).When she was about 37 years old, she was to be married King Philip II of Spain. Two times, Mary was believed to be pregnant, but she never had really children despite desperate attempts to