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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]
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.
Protestants were executed in England under heresy laws during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558), and in smaller numbers during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625). Most were executed in the short reign of Mary I in what is called the Marian persecutions.
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
Mary Tyler Moore's death has been officially attributed to cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a death certificate obtained by ET.
[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 ...
The Duggar family is mourning a great loss.. A day after the family shared the tragic news that Mary Duggar, the mom to Jim Bob Duggar, died on Sunday, a rep for the Washington County Coroner’s ...