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Mary lay in state at St James's Palace. According to Jane Dormer, Mary came to London from Hampton Court at the end of August. She asked Dormer if she had recovered from her illness, a form of influenza called the "quartan ague", Dormer said she was well. [3] Mary replied, "So am not I". [4] [5]
Upon his death, leading politicians proclaimed Mary's and Edward's Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, as queen instead. Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was eventually beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England.
The cause of death has been speculated to have been tuberculosis, appendicitis, or cancer. As an English princess, daughter of a king, sister to the current king, and a dowager queen of France, Mary Tudor's funeral and interment was conducted with much heraldic ceremony. [82] A requiem mass was held at Westminster Abbey. [83]
[1] The Mid-Tudor Crisis denotes the period of English history between 1547 (the death of Henry VIII) and 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor), when, it has been argued by Whitney Jones and others, English government and society were in imminent danger of collapse in the face of a combination of weak rulers, economic pressures, a series of rebellions ...
Executed for not recognizing Mary as Queen. Refused to convert to Catholicism before his death. Lady Jane Grey: 12 February 1554 Former de facto Queen of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill under the Third Succession Act and the Treason Act 1547 establishing Queen Mary as the legitimate heir to the throne. Guilford Dudley
The following is a list of last words uttered by notable individuals during the 20th century (1901-2000). A typical entry will report information in the following order: Last word(s), name and short description, date of death, circumstances around their death (if applicable), and a reference.
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Lady Mary Brandon was born on 2 June 1510, the second eldest daughter of Charles Brandon by his second wife, Anne Browne, only child of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard-Bearer of England by his first wife Eleanor Ughtred, daughter of Sir Robert Ughtred (c.1428-c.1487). Mary had an elder sister, Lady Anne Brandon. Prior to his marriage to Anne ...