TUDOR, Mary Queen Of England I

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She was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until h er death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remem bered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her s hort-lived half brother, Edward VI, to the English throne. In the proce ss, she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the M arian Persecutions, earning her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary". Her re- establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her successor and ha lf-sister, Elizabeth I. Mary was a sickly child who had poor eyesight, sinus conditions and bad h eadaches. John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford was her Chamberlain , and his wife, Lady Anne, daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, w as one of Mary's attendants

Mary married Philip II King of Spain in 1554. Philip (son of HABSBURG, Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella of Portugal, son of Ferdinand V 1st King of Spain and Isabella I Queen of Castile and Leon) was born on 21 May 1527; died on 13 Sep 1598. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]