Mary Tudor, Queen of England: ‘Bloody Mary’ or Troubled Monarch?
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finnaly been waiting for this for a while
thanks a lot
Loving all your hard work, 'team of a thousand channels'. Although we only see dear Simon, we _know_ you're there. Writing, editing, stressing, researching & meeting deadlines. We see you, your hearts are in it. Thank you so much for everything you do. Without you Simon couldn't be everywhere, entertaining us, teaching us & keeping us sane during this ol' pandemic. You're the bestest 🤗💖🇨🇦
Speaking as huge history buff whose interest started with Elizabeth I (even changed my middle name to hers), I don't think she was an awful ruler. Her existence had been hated and used since birth, Catholicism was the only place where she felt at peace, and was denied happiness time and again even when she finally sat on the throne. Eventually, she had succumb to madness due to loneness and died. But her executions really weren't as huge as everyone thinks, she started reforms in the country and navy that her successor perfected and losing Calais actually resulted in the French paying to have it. By centuries after her death, bias historians believe her rule to be a blemish to Elizabeth I's seemingly flawless long and prosperous reign. I won't deny she is nothing compared to her sister's much better reign, but the fact remains that she was England's first proper queen and I will remember her as such. *When I found out about 'Bloody Mary', I thought it to be a stupidly inaccurate and offensive name! Might as well call Tony Blair 'Wary Tony'!*
Suggestion: Queen Anne, last of the Stuarts.
6:48 Henry becomes George VIII
Catherine of Aragon was a princess, not the Queen of Aragon, she was however, the Queen of England
Thank you!
Came to write the same thing. Thanks
@@melissafern6025 beat me to it, lol
What about the Tudders of West Texas, & Katherine Kitty Cat the Queeny & her Texas Knights in shinin beer can armour...like ah knight in shinin armour!! Like that there 80s song said.
I was like, bruh, not even 90 seconds in with the first mistake? Who is running post production on these?
I never even thought about the fact that every time Mary started liking her stepmothers they died 😕
Talk about the kiss of death 😷
History did show that anne of Cleve's was pretty chill with her, though by then she was technically an "aunt" since henry made made her an unofficial sister instead of sending here back.
If either of them had lived I believe the outcome would have been noticiebly different.
@symonew33 Why do you think royal families of Western Europe interest you like they do? Not a criticism, just curious.
It's a pretty common interest among American women (or maybe Americans in general), and I've always wondered what peaked the interest.
I don't think she liked Anne very much lol
You called Henry VIII “George VIII” at the 6:49 mark.
Vlll*
Glad I wasn’t the only one to notice that! And yeah. VII not XIII
Keira Watson VIII
Eddie L haha! Damn it!
Yep
This seems like a case of "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".
Love the narration and the vids in general but:
Mary's mother was never styled Queen of Aragon, she was an Infanta/Princess. Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England.
Betrothal between children was very common in those times. It was a long road between a betrothal and marriage and then to consumation. Betrothals were alliances and not much more.
Also, it's said that Charles V was "her mother's cousin". No, no. Charles was Mary's cousin, nephew of Catherine of Aragon, son of Catherine's sister Juana of Castile (la Loca).
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At one point, I think he actually refered to Henry as George.
@@Isildun9 I caught that also.
Slavery and a general lack of human rights used to be common too, doesn't make it any less fked 😂🤷♂️ That said I hear ya wasn't like they were the only people marrying off infants, buuut still that's fked 😂
@@ryandebosscher6821 A betrothal and what we understand as marriage today are two TOTALLY different things. Not acceptable but it would be more comparable to parents (still today in some cultures) choosing their children's husbands/wives. Nothing more.
As I said, it was just an alliance, and betrothals were simply ignored very often when politics changed.
I appreciate the actual balanced remembrance of monarchs in comparison to each other. Fact is most of how we consider all these monarchs is based a lot on the propaganda of the time that persists to this day and not just a basic reading of facts. Doesn't excuse any of the things they did but context is always key. It's history and historiography
Damn, what is it with Texans and fake news 😆?
Her mother Katherine of Aragon is a fascinating study as well. She helped hold down the fort in England against a scottish rebel uprising while Henry VIII was away fighting France.
KoA was a total badass. Her going down in history as a poor discarted wife is very unfair.
Moreover, he lost and she won. 😛😂
I'm still waiting on a video on Queen Katherine of Aragon, my favorite of Henry's wives. Everyone seems to like Anne Boleyn but I don't think that Katherine gets enough credit for being the beloved Queen that she was.
Also her Katherine's parents would be interesting and her older sister. And her aunt Margaret of Scotland
Hold the fort, not hold down the fort.
Thank you for this Biographics. I have always been an admirer of Mary Tudor. A truly remarkable woman. I think the evil of Henry VIII is to blame for any suspected malfeasance of Mary‘s reign. We also have to remember that, there was 100 years of slander against Mary that happened in England after her death. I’m not saying that she did nothing wrong, just that some of the gruesome details have been exaggerated.
Didn't help that Protestants were being prosecuted like crazy on the continent and that fear bled into the English psyche. This is why James II found himself in trouble mostly. And Louis XIV turned persecuting non Catholics into an art form during his reign. Didn't help that thanks to a fake document over centuries Catholicism practically damaged all monarchies by allowing to play politics and interfere in a secret way when it suits them. One of the reason the Jews got bad luck for centuries (now they have their homeland back and are determined to keep it).
Anne of Cleves: “Henry swiped left”. 😆😆😆
you're not funny
😂🤣🤣
Was she the princess who almost married with king Philip 2 of Spain?
Wait, was Anne Of Cleeves the original catfish?
@@borismuller86 Nope, if anybody was the catfish it was Henry VIII.
I've always thought that Mary was so tortured during her youth, and shown the selfish Henry VIII, that she was predestined to be a ruthless Queen. All she ever wanted was the love of her father and to marry and have children. None of this ever happened.
You can see why Catholicism would have become so important to her. It was a rock in a world that changed for her very suddenly, and something of her mother's that she could hang on to. Further, in England she was now a bastard, whereas the Catholic world continued to maintain she was heir and princess, and that her parents were still legally married.
Agree. I think recent scholarship has shown a more sympathetic view towards mary and her troublesome childhood. Let's just be happy shakespeare didn't write a play about her like he did Richard III. There would be no luck for her then
I've had some disappoints too but I don't go round setting people on fire
@@jaspercorbyn8678 it's really not in vogue at the moment. But, bow to your brilliance with that comment.
@@TheHistoryPrincess i just finished white Queen and am listening to White Princess. I have to say, I'm kinda glad he was lost for that long under a parking lot. It's actually too good for him.
Any woman connected to henry viii was bound to have issues with love, marriage. I kinda feel sorry for her overall. Woman had some issues
They usually do.
@@ambebhavani women typically do or just those connected with Henry?
@@ambebhavani and it's usually caused by men 😂
There were other factors too, but this background at least in part explains why Elizabeth never married.
@@snowangelnc and she was likely raped by Thomas Seymour, Katherine Parr's final husband. Katherine Parr was devastated by this and managed to get Elizabeth away.
Yes!
Other Suggestions:
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator
Henry VIII: The Tyrannical Tudor King
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
I vote for Elizabeth I!! Great ideas, Kath!
May I take this time my fine chap to say you have a beard that could weather a blizzard🧐
The beard gods blessed him with a good one
And it's well trimmed, dare I say it's a beautiful bushy beard😂
Just Google a picture of a guitar god named John Petrucci. He is the beard king.
Aye, 'tis a hearty beast.
It is pretty impressive 🥰
What’s interesting is that when Mary was campaigning for support to get the crown she didn’t mention a thing about religion. She knew that the people wanted the continuation of the Tudor line and therefore she just kept reminding everyone “I am King Henry’s daughter. Jane isn’t!” Obviously that tactic worked!
King...George VIII? Slow down, George VII is still in grade school!
for king George,and old Britain forever.😄
😂🤣😂🤣 Too funny! I was just listening to Simon when I heard, "...George VIII" & my first thought was, "WTH is George VIII? Have I missed a monarch somewhere?" Then I saw the correction. 😜
Assuming he even styles himself George.
Could you do a Biographics on Agatha Christie? Besides her stunning writing career, Christie had many notable accomplishments in her life, as well as disappearing mysteriously for a few days after her divorce from her first husband.
Yes and then also please do JK Rowling. The woman is amazing she went from welfare to the first self made billionaire author in history! But more importantly she turned so many kids teens and adults on to reading . She is truly one of a kind.
Missy Rose She’s also something of a feminist supremacist (at the expense of transgendered and non binary)
I'd love that too!
Tony Stark: Eggs? Breakfast?
Thor: No. I'd like a Bloody Mary.
@UltimateShamrock but you got the reference, right?
did he say king george the eighth and not henry at 6:47 or am i just deaf
That's what I heard also.
@@WendyLPN And I too.
he did indeed. i was going to say so myself until i saw that you'd beat me to it
He definitely said it
Yeah, that's why I disliked this one.
We did a thorough podcast episode about Mary I. (Monarchs & Malarkey) I absolutely think she has an unfair reputation. ALL the Tudors were terrible. MOST the monarchs in general were up until Victoria. But she also suffered egregiously. What she saw her mother go through? I can't say I entirely fault her for anything she did, even as I balk at the horror of it.
While Elizabeth did have more Catholics executed, 1) She reigned 40 years longer than Mary. 2) Most of those Catholics were plotting to overthrow and/or kill her.
Plus optics, never forget the optics. "Virginal Glorianna" rings a little nicer than "Mary the Spaniard shagger".
@@The_Sigillite I'm not gonna act like Elizabeth didn't have her flaws. Nor am I gonna act like Mary didn't have an awful childhood.
But Elizabeth was at the very least a more competent ruler. And rather than leave the past in the past, Mary behaved like a perpetual victim.
@@The_Sigillite I'm actually hoping this channel eventually covers either Æthelflæd, the legendary Lady of the Mercians, or her father, Alfred the Great, aka one of only two English kings titled "the Great" and who certainly earned it by single-handedly driving the Vikings out of England.
I so missed your comment... I said the same thing!
I’ve always felt bad for Mary. Given her rather traumatic childhood as well as a rather chaotic society inherited by her younger brother, Mary was a remarkably successful monarch. As historian Ives (I think) said, ‘the chief problem was the brevity of her reign’. Elizabeth’s success was due to propaganda essentially, which Mary did not prioritise do to her other priorities.
I put much of the blame on her father, Henry VIII. No child could go through what Mary went through and turn out normal.
i completely agree. i love mary so much. henry deserves to burn in hell for what he did to katherine and mary
I doula say troubled. Her father’s abuse and neglect of her added with the whole Annie Boleyn as the evil stepmother twisted her up
She wasn't twisted. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I both killed many more people than she did but history remembers her, and not them, as "Bloody" because it is written by the victors.
Daniel Pavlick her reign was a lot shorter than either of them. If it had been around the same length, she would have killed way more people. The people who think calling Mary twisted is wrong are just ignorant, if you ask me.
@@LjuboCupic1912 that isnt true, actually, because henry killed 72,000 people in 38 years, which is around 1900 people a year. mary killed 300 people in 5 years, which is only 60 per year
@@2Amethyst2 might've had to with her methods. Plus what she did to the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Methods of killing usually define your reign.
lol rey the mary bloody sue
"Any other cinderella would have accepted her fate as an errand girl whiles staging musical routines with a bunch of mice"🤣🤣🤣🤣.. simon why 😂😂😆
I agree with the question at the end. Centuries now, women who can't have kids or choose not to have kids have been portrayed as this way, that they're a lesser than human because of it.
It's not to mention that she was not the typical woman for her time. She wasn't docile, she wasn't submissive - she stood for something and she didn't back down. Even now, a woman being that way is always seen as a horrible person.
How Elizabeth 1st fit into this equation? Strong willed, powerful, childless and an executer of many, and yet she is remembered as glorious. It would seem to me that it is more the circumstances of the times that paint the action of a monarch as great or evil, rather than simply a factor of their sex. Often the matter falls to how they choose to publicise themselves.
I don't know anyone that looks down on someone that can't have children or chooses not to. I also don't know a single soul that looks down on strong, independent women. But.... okay.
@@shadehunter Do you speak for the world? I know sooo many
Nowadays, those women are literally prolonging our demise from overpopulation.
In a perfect 2021 world, women without children would be celebrated, and women would be encouraged to not have kids. At the same time, however, pregnancy would be celebrated once it occurred because it's too late anyway
@@The_Sigillite
Dude, what are you doing? You’re not supposed to question that narrative. You’re supposed to nod along and go “that’s riiiight” in a barely sentient monotone.
Awesome. I never saw her in this light. It's new and it's making me feel ashamed of myself for judging her 🙈
Isn't it wonderful how Christianity brings people together in love and compassion?
I'll just be sitting over here with my popcorn!
@@Lanisteelerocks yes
I understand this is a sarcastic comment but it shows ignorance. To label every religion in relation to Christ (Catholics, protestants etc) as Christianity is purely wrong. Also its obvious that Christianity in teachings is very different in practice, since its up to people to properly apply those teachings. Majority of people who claim to be Christians ( past and present) are/were not actually Christians since they were not applying the teachings of it.
Akhil Dupal it’s unfair that you’re only allowed to claim good people as truly Christian. Many people know that Christianity is a joke, because it doesn’t compel anyone to be decent.
@@christopherthomas8211 actually it does and it has... Some people are just crazy and take what they believe in too far to extreme lengths unfortunately. I am a Christian myself and push my beliefs and ideologies onto no one
Ok the term “bloody Mary” just brings back the old game of saying Bloody Mary 3 times into a mirror... anyone know what I’m talking about?
Yeah I remember as a kid being too scared to do that
She was the origin of that. Perhaps she's an angry ghost because kids keep bothering her... Or perhaps, because kids remind her of her failed fertility?
Being burned alive must have been a terrible death and the story of the baby being born while the mother was being burned then thrown into the fire is horrific. However, Henry VIII showed no mercy to the Pilgrimage Of Grace who marched peacefully against the closure of the monasteries which helped the poor. He had them mercilessly killed. Edward had made the mass illegal - how many Catholics would have died on his orders had he lived? Jane Grey, although young, had strong protestant convictions - that is why Edward chose her as his successor. How many Catholics would have died under her reign had she kept the throne? Would he have had Mary executed? As was pointed out, Elizabeth had 195 people executed for religious reasons. King James V was known for persecuting women and burning them as witches - yet he is not known as Bloody James. I don't agree with what Mary did but I believe she has been singled out because she was Catholic.
Indeed, they as we are, we're all marred by abuses.
The flag in the thumbnail didn’t exist when Mary was Queen. The UK didn’t exist yet.
Off with his head
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Teenage wasteland
6:45 - Chapter 2 - Beheaded, Died , Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
10:15 - Mid roll ads
11:20 - Chapter 3 - Mary triumphant
14:40 - Chapter 4 - Mary the queen
20:55 - Chapter 5 - Mary the bloody
It really is a shame that she became known as 'Bloody' Mary, even though some of her predecessors and successors killed more people.
Tens of thousands more.
Henry VIII was far far worse.
I wonder if it had anything to do with her religious beliefs not being aligned with those of her successors?
@@paulwl3159 that and Shakespeare knew where his money was made.
Don't forget that her reign was short. She didn't have enough time to kill as much as her predecessors and successors. Yet, she managed to have many killed in a short period of time.
I’d never suggest that Mary was ‘good’ especially not by today’s standards. In the same breath, I think her legacy was written by people who hated her and she deserves a more abstract and ambiguous legacy than history has provided her.
You should do a video on all the Tudors. Elizabeth I, Henry Viii, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn,
Don't forget Arthur Tudor.
Yesssss
@@savagedarksider5934 you mean Arthur? Lol
Catalina de Aragon was not a Tudor, she was of the House of Trastámara.
@@michaelbellone1680 she's obviously a Tudor by marriage. Like when a woman's last name changes when she marries a man. Wtf, how do you not get that concept?
I don't think Mary was more "bloody" than her father, Henry VIII. He executed some 57,000 people, but it was over some 20-plus years. I think the reason Mary is styled "bloody" is that she only reigned for five years and "only" executed 300, whereas Henry VIII and Elizabeth I reigned over many years, so the numbers don't look as bad over a longer time span. Henry and Elizabeth were famous for hanging, drawing and quartering, and Mary burned people, so not sure which would be worse???
Burning to death is very slow, very painful. Hanging, drawing and quartering is usually pretty quick. So is beheading, which was a more familiar means of killing.
@@ShannonCarter55 🤷♀️
Lack of eyebrows, missed menstrual periods and inappropriate lactation are all signs of hypothyroidism.
Or it could be a pituitary dysfunction causing high prolactin level.
How refreshing to see a much more balanced account of Mary’s life and achievements, whereas she is normally overly vilified and made out to be some medieval monster when her actions where always a reaction to treats to her safety and that of what was after all England before a royal divorce was sought; her reactions were the same as every single monarch before her, and some after her
She remained strong for so long, right up until she thought she had accomplished all her goals, then it all started tumbling away; her marriage, her dreams of a Catholic England, her chance to be a mother. Perhaps in the end she was too much Henry's daughter for her own good.
He was queen Catherine’s nephew, not cousin.
I think he meant to mean that he was Mary's cousin.
Imagine being the Daughter of the King and treated this way, Then again she was pretty evil having a pregnant woman burn and tossing the baby into the flames and the victims of religious genocide
In her defense, just to play devil's advocate for a moment, 300 people in a population of hundreds of thousands hardly constitutes a genocide. An atrocity and a large scale disregard for human rights, but we should be careful not cheapen the word genocide. And Mary's edicts weren't orders to burn people at the stake, rather she reinstated the power to do so to members of the population who themselves had just lived through a prolonged period of religious repression. It's a small difference, granted, but when we judge her for her actions we must take into account how long and circuitous the chain of command was from Mary's reforms to an infant burning alive. They passed from Mary, to her advisors, to messengers, to bishops, to local priests, and then those bishops and priests ordered local thugs to round up heretics, placed them before what passed for a trial in 16th century England, before a mob murdered them. There's a lot of blame on a lot hands there, and I don't know about you, but I don't think it's fair to lay it all at Mary's feet, though I'm not saying she's even close to blameless.
Remember some of these stories were embellished by the future generations to demonize Catholicism and to a lesser extent the monarchy as a whole during the interregnum years of Oliver Cromwell and the English Republic.
@@elemperadordemexico
I hope so, Seeing something like that would haunt someone for the rest of their life
@@skynyrdjesus
You make a good point, But she sanctioned it
I’ve never heard of George the eighth considering there’s only been six of them in English history it has been eight Henry’s Simon you gotta catch yourself sometimes when it comes to talking about royalty you sometimes switch up names
You gotta feel bad for mary though,
Her father divorced her mother and separated england from the church just to get with her stepmother .
She was in a loveless relationship, there was no baby and she was falling apart,
Soon, driving her into insanity,
So shes really just a troubled monarch.
please make a video about anne boleyn next!
Tbh all I knew of her was the Queen Mary (Hull 534) built on the Clyde, sister ship to Queen Elizabeth (Hull 552). Very informative.
The Rogano restaurant is kitted out 'in the style' of the QMs state rooms. Of course, it's just coincidence that both the QM and the Rogano were built/opened so close to each other at the same time and I'm also sure there was absolutely no pilfering from the yard workers into Mr Roganos new enterprise for a free lunch. Anything else is just scurrilous hearsay ;)
@@bam-skater I was happy to hear that the Rogano is remaining open, it was close to death a few weeks ago, at least in the rumour mill. Yes half the interiors for these ships and even up until the QE2 when my dad was building it, ended up in tenements along Dumbarton Road, from Curtains to Carpets. 😂
One is always judged more harshly than one's peers if one is not attractive and/or has charisma in spades.
This is the lot ascribed to Mary Tudor.
Please do a video on H.C. Andersen and Alexander Dumas, thank you guys for all your hard work!!!
Even though I'm very informed on this topic, have to listen to Simon say it all again, cause it's Simon!
I don't condone what she did to those Protestants, but I don't think the title "Bloody" is well-earned since her dad and sister killed a lot more people than she did. Even taking into account their respective reigns still puts her behind them. Henry, in particular, just seemed to love having people killed.
I would be interested in a video about Philip II of Spain - I never knew he was married to an English monarch, all I know of him is the drama that happened surrounding him and the Netherlands. An in-depth look into who he actually was would be nice.
He was actually quite A good leader- I felt sorry fir him because he had to make love to that ugly queen Mary.
I live in a town called Welwyn which is literally a 5 minute drive from Hatfield house. I have visited it many times but had no idea bloody Mary resided there so that to me is an amazing bit of history. I will definitely pay more attention next time I go! There is also famous oak tree there where Queen Elizabeth liked to sit under in her youth and it was where she was told she was to be queen (or so the story goes) beautiful place.
I have never been a big fan of Mary Tudor but her story is fascinating. She was dealt an unfair hand, being treated so poorly by her father for half of her life.
Edit: I blame Henry for much of it. I know Anne dealt her own damage, but Henry would have kicked Catherine to the curb anyway. If it wasn't for Anne, it would have been for someone else.
So that makes her being a murderous religious fantastic and self deceiving nut job OK with you....
Lmao, the inspirational story of how "a woman overcame her obstacles" and became a mass murderer. She had such an unfair life. The people who she burned to death... meh... she was a strong woman. Signed, a feminist.
@@sayuas4293 She did have an unfair life. She did overcome many obstacles. She was also a mass murderer, like many other of her contemporary monarchs including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Let's not forget that "Good Queen Bess" killed at least twice many Catholics during her reign in the name of securing Protestantism. No one even remembers them. The only reason she gets away with that is because she learned from her sister's mistakes and found ways to work around the traditional execution method for heresy (burning). Well, that and some very strategic propaganda. Regardless, a lot of strong and/or famous men and women have done terrible things. Mary being strong, if that's how you want to see her, does not make the things she did okay or not terrible. Those terrible things, likewise, would not make her any less strong. Contextualization is not justification.
Also, can we stop making it seem like feminism condones every awful thing in the name of "girl power?" That's disingenuous.
@@andrewyarosh1809 according to the Black Legend - Protestant Propaganda -, yes, Mary of Tudor was a "monster" for killing around 700 people. But Elizabeth seized English population by killing more than 30 thousand people; but yet she's "the queen of the golden age" "muh Spanish Armada", but England surrendered in 1604 - lol.
@@sayuas4293 this gives such incel vibes 🤩
One thing I've noticed about Queen Mary and her place in history and alot of other misunderstood historical figures is that history seems to often retell the 'hero vs villain' story, quite often at the expense of the "villian". For example, Bloody Mary (aka Queen Mary) vs Glorius Gloriana (aka Elizabeth I). I think this is a sad thing alot of modern historians do abd in doing this we forget that society and common ethical expectations were different back then. Mary was a product of her time and generation and though she committed, what we would call today, human rights violations (which really wasn't even an idea until maybe after the trans Atlantic slave trade and maybe after the world wars) we should still remember what she went through as a young girl and then as a woman as well as her achievements during her reign. Elizabeth the first, though a great leader, had a body count that surpasses her sister by a large amount. Honestly I feel that hatred towards Mary was merely due to the fact that sje was a catholic monarch aiming to preserve catholisim instead of a protestant preserving protestantism (Britain's current national religon). I've seen many documentaries and articles about Queen Mary but this one of very few videos I've found that paints a more human picture of Mary, not jusy the bloody ruler but the victim of history, pre 18th century politics and her own hubris. Thanks for another great episode 👍🏽😁 keep em' coming!!!! 😀
Also another thing I've noticed about Elizabeth and Mary was how quickly after Mary's death, she was painted as the 'wicked catholic monarch' and Elizabeth the 'saintly virgin protestant' . Political and Religious propaganda? I think so... 🤔
Elizabeth indeed had a higher body count, but that was over 45 years rather than 5 and was usually in response to plots against her.
What's with the present day Union flag on the thumbnail when it didn't exist during Bloody Mary's time?
We need an Elizabeth I biographics
I can’t believe Simon hasn’t done an episode on the Virgin Queen Elizabeth yet. 🤷🏻♂️
6:48 george VIII didn't know Britain had time traveling monarchs
Jane Grey was the 14 day Queen , and Mary had her executed.
For a good course I dare say. And it wasn't immediately done.
Jane grey reign for nine days before Mary Marched into London with an army where she claimed the throne had jane thrown into the tower then executed
Mary kinda had to. Jane was a figurehead for a rebellion. Jane had no wish to be queen but those around her had other ideas. As long as she lived there was an excuse for people to rebel
@@smiller3995 well, don't blame Queen Mary. What Jane did was treason; punishable by death.
Lady Jane was actually queen for nine days
Devotees of Gloriana like to cite Elizabeth I's speech at Tilbury as the height of royal female courage, but Mary's stand in Framlingham and London, during the Grey succession and Wyatt's Rebellion respectively, far outstrip anything her half-sister did.
It's just confusing how Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart were both Catholics with half-sisters named Elizabeth. Those are the two features I remember the former by.
I don't agree with her methods, but part of me does feel quite bad for her. Think about the mental anguish she endured throughout her life..it was a very sad life.
Henry showered affection on Mary when she was a young child and would trot her out to show her off to visitors.
King “George” the VIII????? Little proofreading perhaps before we post...
Wasn't the only mistake!😉
I can't help but feel a bit of sympathy for her in the end. Sorry id that's an unpopular opinion
Most people do. Mary became wicked but she wasn't born that way. Still, she made her own choices.
100% agree
I don't
Another king that came after her killed vast numbers of Protestant dissenters, but we remember him as “The merry monarch.”
Anyone else here hear "king George the 8th"?
Yes!
Do a Biographics on Elizabeth 1st.
My Great-Great-Great (x many) grandfather was one of the unlucky to be burned at the stake in Canterbury in July 1555- the Reverend John Bland. His trial is well documented in ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’.
If you have any documentation or I formation I’d love to hear it! I’m currently writing my thesis on the fall of Catholicism in England and I’m looking for unknown sources :)
Leah S I just have my family tree that leads back to him. But there is some more information about him online that’s easy to find- and of course ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’ that I mentioned! 😊
I'm really really surprised at the lack of detail being displayed here.
Mary Tudor was born and lived, and even ruled England before 1707.
So she never was British. She was English.
So why have her displayed beside a union jack?
Everyone else seemed to have covered it but yes, Katherine was a Princess/Infanta of Aragon because her father was King of Aragon. Katherine was never it's Queen though 😁
But back to Mary, I honestly can't totally blame Mary for her behavior and life as an adult. She was very much neglected and abused by her father and Anne Boleyn who was determined to make Mary and Katherine suffer. The only people who seemed love her was her mother and Eustace Chapuay, the Ambassador to England from Spain and friend of Mary's mother. Therefore having had Katherine separated from her daughter and dying with either of them ever seeing each other again is totally traumatizing and heartbreaking. Mary's position was always unstable and precarious depending on her father's mood: and the years of her early adulthood where she should have been married and become a mother were wasted. Not to mention that her eventual husband really didn't love her and thought she was ugly.... and never got to become a mother and had those dreams dashed as well as her hope for restoring England to Catholicism; one of the last shreds she had of her mother in a way. And on top of that, her own brother/godson tried to stop her from her birthright of being a Queen.
Poor thing, her life was so hard and tragic.
i completely agree with u! she deserved the best childhood out of most royals but got the worst 😭😭😭 i hate henry and anne so much!
im not trying to be mean or hateful at all, it's just my opinion because she made people i love suffer.
i know that henry killed anne on false charges because he tired of her, and thats unfair, but that doesnt make anne's treatment to mary and katherine acceptable. they were both way more amazing than her, imo.
mary will always be one of my favourite royals. and katherine too, ofc
What kind of selfish tool treats his own daughter like that
*_King Henry the VIII?_* Lol
@@W1LDTANG Yeah that was rhetorical
@@SDNate760 I know lol...
THE selfish tool
@@SDNate760 well that how kings were back then
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Hope you enjoyed it, and thank you for watching.
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@@mammuchan8923 Or empires😂
DiverseJoe no one pronounces it quite like Simon, so smooth
@@mammuchan8923 Fr, this guy has the most eloquent British accent and I love it😂💓
so like, where is Marry Queen of Scots, video? oooh and Bonnie Prince Charlie, thanks
I once served a Bloody Mary to a catholic priest. He had no idea of the irony.
Lol
How is it ironic? Either he likes them and requested it, or you did it to be rude.
@@katherinegilks3880 He was a good chap who though it ironic himself. No rudeness intended. Important to find humor in daily life.
@@aaropajari7058 Lol, I would have just thought it apt theb5.
@@katherinegilks3880 ?
Charles V was Mary's cousin not her mother's
Violent? Bloody? I think,was a person of the age in which she lived. Judging her by today's standard is foolish; was she "bloody" by the standards of the world into which she,was born? Not so much.
Homie really said “King George VIII”
Seems to me like a case of absolute power corrupting absolutely.
Ok ponder this question:
What is the connection between this biographical Bloody Mary and the Alcoholic beverage Bloody Mary????
No. They're both nutcases.
Always more to learn. I especially like what you said at the end, comparing Mary's reign to the much bloodier reigns of Lionheart and Gloriana! Thanks for another interesting and informative look into that history!
Great video as usual Simon and very open and fair closing statement on how history remembers certain figures, very true.
6:49 - King George the VIII? Lol I think you meant Henry old sport.
A propose for biography
Giovanni Falkone the heroic judge
She lowkey looks like Greta Thunberg
Mary, Queen of Scots please!
WHY do you perpetuate the perspective then? And only in the last 30 seconds put things in perspective?
Can you do mother Theresa, please?
I've read about Mary Tudor's life a lot and watched some documentaries too, but it's always something else hearing it from you!
Thanks a lot for all your efforts 💕
please make a biographics for
elizabeth I : The Virgin Queen
Anne Boleyn: The Original Mistress
Queen Elizabeth: The Eternal Virgin Queen
:p
Whys the union flag in the thumbnail for an English queen?
Ritchie125 was just about to comment about that. The UK didn’t even exist at this point of time, should be a st George really...
Reassessment of the legacy of Mary I sounds like an awesome idea!
Charles XII plssss! Bestow upon Sweden it's former glory!
I still consider her a villain based on how she treated her younger sister.
your information is full of mistakes...her mother Catherine insisted in educate Mary like her other sisters, the castilian princess, the most educated women in European courts....Catherine fight for her daughter rights to the throne, most of all, because for a spanish queen, was very common women were sovereign like her mother Isabella I or her sister Joan I heiress of Isabella. About Vives was a great renaissance humanist, educating Mary like a future ruler queen...and about "Henry's protestantism" he was not quite protestant at all, like you said ,was a scism, not a reformation, the only change was about the head of the Church, changing the Pope by the King, that all, the England faith remain catholic...in fact the anglican church nowadays name itself "catholic". Charles V of Spain was first cousin of Mary, because he was son and heir of the Queen Joan I of Spain , Catherine´s sister....
I mean no offense, but those who claim that singling out Mary and label her as ruthless, is unfair, seem to forget that she reigned for only 5 years. And the burnings began even later than that (I mean way after she was crowned).
To kill so many people in so little time is indeed ruthless if you ask me.
Thank you! I always argue this in AP Euro, and then someone compares Elizabeth's 44 year reign to Mary's 5 year reign. Like of course more people died under Elizabeth, but for different reasons. Mary killed 300 people just because she didn't agree with them. On top of all the other criminals that were killed.
Considering Protestants conspired to treat her like crap for her whole life since her childhood, they were hardly innocent martyrs. They were conspiring against her as much as those who were conspiring against Bessie later.
@@katherinegilks3880 Buddy Protestantism was illegal when she was growing up.
@@Jack-yf9bc I meant her adolescence, not young childhood. It wasn't that simple either. Protestantism had a lot of influence at court even while illegal.
@@katherinegilks3880 what do you mean by adolescents? Because she was like 30 when it was made legal. Not saying that she had it easy. Protestants did conspire against her when she was queen for like 5 years. During her brother’s reign, she was asked to stop mass like every three months for a good 4 years. But the same parallels can be drawn for Elizabeth. She’s not unique in people trying to kill her. Her life was ruined by her Catholic tyrannical father full stop. That and she was probably like that cause, genetics from her dad, also she was an inbreed.
To clarify: I’m not Protestant or Catholic I just like the history. So I believe I’m unbiased.
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example;
Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall
General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed
Confederate President Jefferson Davies
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction
Etc.
I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
Ulysses would be a good one fo sho
ACW is a topic i like,though,by ethical reasons,i always side with the Union
Please do a Tudor series
Henry VIII
ELIZABETH I
HENRY VII
MARGRET DOUGLAS
EDWARD VI
HENRYS 6 wives
Lady Jane Grey 9days queen
Mary queen Scots
Margret Tudor
just a few 😂 😂
Did anyone else notice he said George the eight Instead of Henry the eighth
Charles V Holy Roman Emperor was the nephew of Catherine of Aragon, not her cousin. Also, Catherine and I share the same Bday (12/16) therefore I also know she died on the 7th of January, not the 12th
Elizabeth I (and far fewer due to religious reasons) and Henry VIII both had much longer reigns than Mary I.
Dude, you guys should do a video on Fred and Rosemary West