claim: Elizabeth I was the first daughter of Henry VIII.
evidence: Mary I -LRB- 18 February 1516 -- 17 November 1558 -RRB- was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death .. Queen of England. List of English monarchs. Ireland. Kingdom of Ireland. Queen. List of English monarchs. England. Kingdom of England. Her executions of Protestants led to the posthumous sobriquet `` Bloody Mary '' .. Protestants. Protestantism. sobriquet. sobriquet. She was the only child of Henry VIII by his first wife Catherine of Aragon to survive to adulthood .. Catherine of Aragon. Catherine of Aragon. Henry VIII. Henry VIII. Her younger half-brother Edward VI -LRB- son of Henry and Jane Seymour -RRB- succeeded their father in 1547 .. Jane. Lady Jane Grey. Edward VI. Edward VI. Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour. When Edward became mortally ill in 1553 , he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of religious differences .. On his death their first cousin once removed , Lady Jane Grey , was proclaimed queen .. Jane. Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey. Mary assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane , who was ultimately beheaded .. Jane. Lady Jane Grey. East Anglia. East Anglia. Mary was -- excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda -- the first queen regnant of England .. Jane. Lady Jane Grey. England. Kingdom of England. Empress Matilda. Empress Matilda. queen regnant. queen regnant. In 1554 , Mary married Philip of Spain , becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556 .. Philip. Philip II of Spain. Philip of Spain. Philip II of Spain. queen consort. queen consort. Habsburg Spain. Habsburg Spain. Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after her half-brother 's short-lived Protestant reign .. During her five-year reign , she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions .. burned at the stake. Death by burning. Marian persecutions. Marian persecutions. After her death in 1558 , her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her younger half-sister and successor Elizabeth I , daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn .. Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I of England. Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn