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Contradicting the Act of Succession 1544, which restored Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession, Edward named Northumberland's daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's younger sister Mary, as his successor. Lady Jane's mother was Frances Brandon, Mary's cousin and goddaughter.
Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII.Louis was more than 30 years her senior.
After Mary died, shortly after Mass in the morning, her coronation ring was taken to Elizabeth at Hatfield House. [17] Nicholas Throckmorton is said to have told Elizabeth of her sister's death. [18] According to a poem, [19] he brought a token of another of Mary's rings, a ring with black enamel decoration which was her espousal ring. [20]
Sister deposed Jane (disputed) Elizabeth Tudor: Heiress presumptive [13] Half-sister 6 July 1553 Half-sister became queen 17 November 1558 Became queen Mary I: Since Elizabeth I never designated an heir, the succession was disputed among heirs of Henry VII by cognatic primogeniture and the heirs established under the will of Henry VIII.
David Lodes suggests that Elizabeth's “support group” formed within a week of Jane Grey's deposition, [135] when the crisis had already been resolved. On July 31, Elizabeth left London to meet her sister, this time with an escort of a thousand people. [135] Perhaps she wanted to show Mary her own political weight, but she decided to ignore.
Elizabeth bowed to public feeling against the marriage, learning from the mistake her sister, Mary I, made when she married Philip II of Spain, and sent the Duke of Anjou away. Elizabeth knew that the continuation of the Tudor line was now impossible; she was forty-eight in 1581, and too old to bear children.
Possible portrait of Margaret or her sister Mary. Painted by Bernhard Strigel, circa 1520. Margaret was born on 28 November 1489 in the Palace of Westminster in London to King Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeth of York. She was their second child and firstborn daughter.
Mary Grey, born about 20 April 1545, was the third and youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Lady Frances Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, the younger of the two daughters of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Mary had two sisters, Lady Jane Grey and Lady Katherine Grey. [2]