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Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
Mary replied, "So am not I". [4] [5] On 28 October, Mary added a codicil to her will, witnessed by her physician Thomas Wendy and others, which indicated that Elizabeth I would be her successor. [6] [7] The sickbed was attended by an old servant, the chamberer Edith Brediman. [8] The nature of Mary's final illness is uncertain. [9]
[2]: 186 Many people were exiled, and hundreds of dissenters were burned at the stake, earning her the nickname of "Bloody Mary". [3] The number of people executed for their faith during the persecutions is thought to be at least 287, including 56 women. [4] Thirty others died in prison. [5]: 79
The Bloody Mary apparition allegedly appears as a corpse, witch, and ghost that can either be friendly, evil, or a demonic spirit, and is sometimes seen covered in blood (hence the name). The lore surrounding the ritual states that participants may endure the apparition screaming at them, cursing them, strangling them, stealing their soul ...
Mary I ordered hundreds of Protestants burnt at the stake during her reign (1553–58) in what would be known as the "Marian Persecutions" earning her the epithet of "Bloody" Mary. [77] Many of those executed by Mary are listed in Actes and Monuments, written by Foxe in 1563 and 1570.
Callas died at home in her Paris apartment on Sept. 16, 1977, at age 53. Her official cause of death was a heart attack, although there has been widespread speculation in decades since that she ...
The image of Mary may have been partly based on a portrait of Mary at Hardwick Hall. In 1610, a servant of the painter Rowland Lockey, an employee of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was paid for travelling to London with two porters carrying Mary's picture. The portrait was returned to Hardwick in 1613.
Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir shares new insight into the day her father, Elvis Presley, died at Graceland. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie looks back on Aug. 16, 1977, the ...