Does she deserve the name 'Bloody mary'

How many Protestants did she execute?

280-300

What did she do the most of under heresy laws than other monarchs?

Burnings

What was her persecution motivated by?

Religion

What did she have the most executions of in the Tudor period?

Religion

Who did H8 execute?

Both Protestants and Catholics

How many did H8 execute for religious reasons?

200-300

How many did H8 execute in his whole reign?

Around 72,000

What was H8 executions normally for?

Treason not heresy

What was H8 most common form of executions?

Beheading and hanging

What was H8 focus on more with his executions?

Enforcing royal authority

What did E6 have very few of?

Executions for religion

What did E6 have no major?

Burnings

How was E6 reforms enforced?

Laws not persecution

What was E6 least violent in?

Religious punishment

How many Catholics did Liz execute?

Around 200

When did Liz start executing Catholics and why?

After 1568 when MQOS arrives in England

Catholic plots and foreign threats

What did Liz execute for?

Treason not heresy

What was Liz popular form of execution?

Hangings

Who all had similar numbers in executions?

Mary/ H8/ Liz

How often did H7 execute people?

Rarely

Why did H7 execute little people for religious reasons?

England still Catholic and stable religiously

What was H7 most executions for?

Treason not belief

What did H7 prefer over executions?

Fines, bonds, and recognisances

What did H7 use punishments to do?

Control nobility not common people

Who had the most severe method of execution and why did this create a bad rep?

Mary- took hours to die not quick like the others

Why was she called ‘Bloody Mary’ when she had the same number of executions as the others?

Her reign was only 5 years long compared to H7 24 years and H8 38 years

Same reign length at E6 but had a lot more executions

What was the motive behind Mary’s statements and what proof is there?

Make a statement as it was unnecessary, unfair, limited in success, didn’t help her reputation, and executions continued despite lack of support and creation of martyrs

Cranmer still burned even though he conformed to her wishes before death- burnings not about religion

Why was the nickname unfair?

• Executions legal and supported at the time as carried out by Parliament and heresy laws existed before her reign

• Short reign exaggerates her rep as if she ruled longer, her actions may have appeared less extreme over time

• Protestant propagandas eg Foxe Book of Martyrs ruined her image- exaggerated her cruelty and Liz encouraged this view to justify Protestant rule

• Religious intolerance normal in 16th C- all Tudor monarchs not just Mary believed religious unity was necessary for stability and executing people for beliefs was accepted at the time