death_date regent birth_date alt signature reign father house death_place coronation spouse image name caption predecessor succession birth_place moretext successor mother religion article_title
17 november 1558 philip 18 february 1516 mary hair parted in the middle has a high forehead , thin lips and mary i signature.svg july 16 january 1556 & nbsp ; -- 17 november 1558 1553 & nbsp ; -- 17 november 1558 henry viii of england house of tudor st james 's palace , london 1 october 1553 philip ii of spain 232px mary i portrait by antonis mor , 1554 jane '' -lrb- disputed -rrb- or '' edward vi queen of england and ireland queen consort of spain palace of placentia , greenwich -lrb- more ... -rrb- elizabeth i catherine of aragon roman catholicism mary i of england

mary i of england

mary i -lrb- 18 february 1516 -- 17 november 1558 -rrb- was the queen of england and ireland from july 1553 until her death .
her executions of protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet `` bloody mary '' .
she was the only child of henry viii and his first wife catherine of aragon who survived to adulthood .
her younger half-brother edward vi -lrb- son of henry and jane seymour -rrb- succeeded their father in 1547 .
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 initially proclaimed queen .
mary assembled a force in east anglia and successfully deposed jane , who was ultimately beheaded .
mary was -- excluding the disputed reigns of jane and the empress matilda -- the first queen regnant of england .
in 1554 , mary married philip of spain , becoming queen consort of habsburg spain on his accession in 1556 .
as the fourth crowned monarch of the tudor dynasty , mary is remembered for her restoration of roman catholicism after the short-lived protestant reign of her half-brother .
during her five-year reign , she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the marian persecutions .
her re-establishment of roman catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor elizabeth i , daughter of henry and anne boleyn .
