ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦- 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑟 ꨄ

• Primary source


  Written or created at the time, by someone who witnessed first-hand
• Chronology


  Arranging events in the order than they occurred
• what is a secondary source?

  Created later by e.g. scholar who did not experience the events
• Earliest date/time period


  • The Victorian Age
  • 15th century
  • 1534
  • 16th century
• name Mary’s half siblings?

  edward and Elizabeth
• When Mary was born

  1516
• For how many years did Mary rule? 5 years


  1553
• Up to the age of 11, Mary's childhood


  • Happy childhood: Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, music
• Why it was important that Mary was declared illegitimate
• When Henry died what was the status of the church and religious practices in England
• Reasons why it was believed that Mary needed a husband as queen


  • Needed help (woman)
  • Produce an heir
  • Avoid civil war
• Who succeeded Mary on the throne
• Why did her father decide to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
• Whose challenge to the Roman Catholic Church in Germany led to a new form of Christianity
• In 1547, who took the throne after Henry VIII and how did he affect religion
• Suitor (potential husband) for Mary


  • Edward Courtenay: good noble blood, Catholic, handsome
  • Disadvantage: would cause faction amongst nobility
• Another suitor (potential husband) for Mary


  • Philip of Spain: wealthy, royal blood, would make an ally of Spain, Catholic
  • Disadvantage: deeply unpopular (foreign)
• Transubstantiation


  Miracle occurs during the communion and the bread and wine actually becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ
• Mary's Catholic church services and the Bible

  Latin Vs English
• Decoration of Catholic and Protestant church interiors


  Decorative Vs plain
• Relevant piece of evidence


  • Mary Tudor punished Catholic martyrs by burning them at the stake