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Apr 26, 2009 · Summary. The leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising are put to death, but Brandon is haunted by the cruelty and mercilessness of the suppression and his part in it; Henry celebrates the birth of a son but his joy is short-lived as Queen Jane dies within days.
The Tudors inherited the throne after Henry VII plunged England into decades of religious turmoil. Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, broke with the Catholic Church and appointed himself the Supreme Head of a new Protestant institution known as the Church of England.
Mary became queen on a wave of public approval. But the reasons for this cannot be clear. Was it that the succession had passed to the next Tudor, the legal heir? Or was it that people wanted Catholicism restored?
After Edward's death from tuberculosis at 16, Elizabeth and Mary were both called to London by a would-be usurper of the crown, as part of his plot to bring them under his control. However, the girls' allies discovered the plot and warned them against it; Elizabeth was told of the plot by William Cecil, who was to become one of her lifelong ...
Elizabeth I ruled England for 45 years. The country saw lots of change during her reign, with religion, trade and international exploration all very different by the time she died. Elizabethan ...
It was partly the memory of the horrors of disputed succession that caused King Henry VIII, a Tudor, to care so obsessively about producing a male heir; famously, he went through six wives and only Jane Seymour (his third) produced a male child.
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Mary became Queen in 1553 following the death of her brother Edward and the deposement of Jane Grey. As a devout Catholic, Mary believed that unless Catholicism was restored in England, all her subjects would go to hell.
