Bloody Mary - Does She Deserve That Name?

Mary I was a Catholic extremist - she burnt 284 Protestants to death. 

She had rebels hanged in their own home parishes. 

Mary I believed she was cleansing England like this. 

Other Tudor monarchs also murdered lots of people - don't you think they deserve a nickname?

First of all, Mary blamed Thomas Cranmer for her parents' split. 

When she became Queen, she sued Thomas Cranmer. 

Then, she publicly shamed him as a Protestant heretic. 

Thomas Cranmer recanted Protestantism. 

He admitted to Catholicism 7 times. 

Still, Mary got him burnt to his death.

Thomas Cranmer died in 1556. 

She was physically ill and described as obstinate and difficult. 

As a child, she heard rumours of her becoming executed. 

When 18, she was sent to live with Elizabeth and was treated very badly. 

She was forbidden from seeing her mother - and her mother died without seeing her daughter for one last time.