wow, the portrait at 1:26 is beautiful. It annoys me when people say that Elizabeth was the better looking sister and there's all these film portrayals of her as beautiful and Mary as ugly (Kathy Burke anyone?) when we have to remember that Mary was young once too and as for Elizabeth, she had pox marked skin, bad teeth etc and did not stay as attractive as Cate Blanchett when she got older lol
I am fascinated by Mary Tudor. Its hard to believe that this woman inflicted such agony on so many people in the name of Christianity. I know that her sister was just as cruel during her reign, but I believe that Mary had been driven insane by the many injustices of her childhood and that she became one of English Historys true monsters.
I believe much of Shakespeare's work reveals esoteric understanding of man's nature and the comedy and tragedy of the Tudor/Elizabethan era. Would you say the works is biased or fairly objective in the portrayal of characteristics and events pertaining to the times?
I was always so curious about this Queen. I know she is the famous bloody Mary. I'd like know more of her rule, she was a catholic queen, there should be a movie about her. All I the movies where she is, are movies of Elizabeth or another queens. By the way great music, it has the essential Spanish style .
@danielitaiyta Mary is grossly misunderstood by English historians due to the fact that Protestants have written most to all of the history in England. Bastardized by her father following the cruel exile and early death of her mother, she was further persecuted because of her unyielding Catholic faith during his reign as well as that of Edward. While it is true that 300 Protestants were killed during her reign, thousands more Catholics died during the reigns of Henry and Elizabeth.
@ligreekguy Yeah that is true. I know that during the reign of Elizabeth, thousands of Catholics were killed just because of their faith. I knew that queen Mary Tudor's biography was misunderstood since history always highlights the fact of her bloody reputation. But history doesn't explain much about other facts. Such as her childhood, and her political trajectory.
What is also interesting is that Mary spared Lady Jane and nearly all of the conspirators to seize her throne in 1553, an action that Henry, Edward or Elizabeth would never have undertaken. It was only with the second rebellion in 1554 and the insistence of her husband Philip II that Mary reluctantly agreed to the execution of young Jane. She also steadfastly resisted numerous entreaties to execute Elizabeth despite the cruelty of her mother, Anne Boleyn, against Mary.
@ligreekguy I read that Mary Tudor decided to leave the throne under the command of Elizabeth as a queen from England, Mary didn't carry out any battle. Even though she had all the right over England's throne because she was the legitimate daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Catalina de Aragon, In the other hand Elizabeth was not a recognized daughter.
Hi, Daniel. Well, Mary died as the reigning Queen in 1558, and would never have left the throne alive in favor of Elizabeth, whose legitimacy she never really acknowledged. (Abdications did not occur in those days). However, she also faced the inevitable, that being that Elizabeth would be her successor. (Where did you read this account?) Catholics recognized ONLY Mary as legitimate, since Elizabeth and Edward were baptized in the Church of England.
Daniel: This is why Mary Queen of Scots was so important to Catholics. She was the cousin of Elizabeth, her grandmother being Margaret, the older sister of Henry VIII. Lady Jane Grey was the granddaughter of Mary, the younger sister of Henry, and Mary's line was given precedence over Margaret's because the English did not want a Scottish monarch on their throne. Of course, Jane was a Protestant, and Mary Queen of Scots was Catholic, so Rome obviously favored the latter.
Lady Jane Grey was an aunt in our family line. She was the granddaughter of Mary Rose Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, I believe. We are descended from Mary Rose and Henry.
My family had no idea who we came from before I began researching this year. Genealogy seems to lead into a great interest in history and one's own inherited traits. The women in my family have almost all been ladies, and highly intelligent, independent, and creative ladies at that.
I truly feel sorry for Lady Jane, as she was a helpless pawn at the mercy of her cruel and domineering parents, as well as of Dudley. Ironically, she was treated with the utmost kindness as a child by her cousin, Princess Mary. Yes, her mother was Frances Brandon (1519-1561) who in turn was the daughter of Mary Tudor (younger sister of Henry VIII) and her second husband, Charles Brandon. It is also ironic that Mary Tudor Brandon was a devout Catholic.
Amen to that! Mary is consistently given a bad rap by the Protestant and secular (same thing) revisionists. She was a mother to both Elizabeth and Edward after both their mothers had been taken from them early in life. What hurt her the most is that these two same younger siblings sought to cruelly undermine her despite the love and kindness that she had shown them. Little bratty ingrates.
Mary suffers greatly from history. Because the Protestants won the war in England. The real Bloody reign was that of Henry VIII. He killed Thousands, almost all catholic, with his reformation. He was more ruthless than Mary ever was. All said she was a Queen in her time and ruled as such. But she did show more tolerance in all areas of rule than any of her contemporaries. Her problem to-day is she was on the wrong side of battle, the one that lost. So propaganda went against her.
I don't support Mary at ALL(I'm Protestant) but I t hink some of it has to do with the fact that she's a woman. Had a man committed those murders, no one would have cared(look at her father) but let a WOMAN commit ONE murder, and she's CONDEMNED to HELL! There's a double standard, and it's a sexist one.
@regszikora that is true, but the fact of the matter is, Mary can't do anything to or for anyone now. The woman is dead. I've moved on and I'm more focused on people and regimes that are hurting and oppressing people today.
Dindirin danya, dindirindin. Je me levé un bel maitin, Matineta per la prata; encontré le ruyseñor, que cantaba so la rama, dindirindin. Dindirin danya, dindirindin. Encontré le ruyseñor, que cantaba so la rama, "Ruyseñor, le ruyseñor, facteme aquesta embaxata, dindirin din."
because she killed a lot of pepole and was called bloody mary? it was bloody back then thats the way it was and her father king Henry was not in his right mind if anyone was out of it so to speak
Oh, this is great. I love tributes to Mary Tudor. I admire her a lot. Good job! Glad you did it, because she doesn't have that many videos dedicated to her.
As a child I had heard all the 'Bloody Mary' tales of the burnings that just horrified me. I was afraid of her in fact. At school they tended to paint her as evil and her siblings Edward VI and Elizabeth I as the good monarchs and I pretty much accepted the propaganda-until at about age 15 I got into reading about royalty (because of Diana). I pretty much went through books about all the royal houses from William the Conqueror on down. These were library books so not the usual school fair.
Sorry I made some mistakes and had to edit! Anyway to continue-one day at the library I picked up as I recall three books - one was about Anne the current Princess Royal (she was not called that then), another was I think about the Little Princes in the Tower the doomed Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York The third was "Bloody Mary" by Carolly Eriksson. Even now I can remember how Mary's portrait on the cover gave me chills. I still had some of the old childhood fears about her.
Erikson's book changed my almost automatic loathing and prejudiced view of Mary I forever. Interestingly the title of the book was deceiving. I think it was a rather compassionate portrayal of this much maligned, much misunderstood woman. It was the first time I had read of Mary's horrible childhood under a tyrannical father who happened to be a most ruthless despot of a King. I in fact changed my views on Henry VIII because of that book. He was ultimately responsible for the woman Mary Tudor.
Finally-If I am not mistaken it is Carolly Erikson's book that I first read about Mary's final days. If I recall the book correctly at the end when Mary was drifting in and out of consciousness she awoke once to tell her ladies not to weep for her-for she was having 'good dreams' of children singing. I always remembered that and I have felt a deep compassion for Mary ever since. Elizabeth was a great Queen-but she was fortunate to be brought up Protestant. And I've rooted for Mary ever since. :)
BTW-I always tend to root for the underdog or the one who is not popular or well liked. That is why I picked up the book on Princess Anne-I like her even though she is not the 'popular' Princess her late sister-in-law was. The Princess Royal has probably been involved in more charities than all her siblings combined but she is less liked and therefore left unsung imo.
In my opinion Mary, Elizabeth, Edward and Henry Fitzroy all have gone on to their rest. Their father imo was an evil tyrant and his daughters especially suffered for it-Mary for the longest as she was the oldest. I do not believe she was in her right mind at the end of her days and who could blame her?
me neither. I think she probably suffered from some mental illness- her great grandma had it, but it tends to skip generations. It happened in my family- my grandpa has some kind of bipolar schizophrenia combo, and it skipped my mom, and I'm bipolar too :(
Wow - guess what? My dad was diagnoses as bipolar/schizophrenic and so was one of my sisters. I agree that Mary suffered from some kind of mental illness. I have read that Henry VIII might possibly have had syphilis and firstly that is what caused the many miscarriages of his first two wives, and secondly it probably contributed to his irrational behavior as he grew older, and finally-he likely passed it on through their mothers to his children.
yeah,exactly. It explains some of Mary's actions, although Elizabeth seems to have been immune(from the mental illness at least). I have Asperger's too(my other grandpa had it and- guess what? it skipped a generation again!- so that's why some of my comments are a little irrational. BUt my case is more mild than his becuase I'm female.
Forgot to add-I love Anne Boleyn. I love all of Henry's Queens for different reasons. Katherine Howard is another one I feel for. She is usually portrayed as the sex-crazed 'dumb blonde' type. She was just a kid dealing in circumstances beyond her ken.
No no-If it is possible to say one 'loves' persons one has never (nor could not possibly ) ever have met I can almost say that I do. I love all of Henry's wives. Perhaps the word I'm searching for is I feel a great fondness/affection for them all? What I do not love is Anne's behaviour towards Katherine and Mary. It pains me whenever I go back to read a bio on Anne. But apart from that-she did imo tremendously for England-she gave the world Elizabeth I. And she championed the reformation.
jeez she look so creepy :O
hooshyari1 3 months ago
salve reyna maria
GARAYHUA1972 7 months ago
wow, the portrait at 1:26 is beautiful. It annoys me when people say that Elizabeth was the better looking sister and there's all these film portrayals of her as beautiful and Mary as ugly (Kathy Burke anyone?) when we have to remember that Mary was young once too and as for Elizabeth, she had pox marked skin, bad teeth etc and did not stay as attractive as Cate Blanchett when she got older lol
Sweetlittlemystery 8 months ago
I am fascinated by Mary Tudor. Its hard to believe that this woman inflicted such agony on so many people in the name of Christianity. I know that her sister was just as cruel during her reign, but I believe that Mary had been driven insane by the many injustices of her childhood and that she became one of English Historys true monsters.
rees276 11 months ago
I believe much of Shakespeare's work reveals esoteric understanding of man's nature and the comedy and tragedy of the Tudor/Elizabethan era. Would you say the works is biased or fairly objective in the portrayal of characteristics and events pertaining to the times?
carefulcarpenter 1 year ago
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No. He pandered to ERI, or else.
molarmama5 8 months ago
Is there anything else I can share about the inherited traits of the family?
carefulcarpenter 1 year ago
Preciosa música española, para una reina inglesa con sangre española.
Servilio1000 1 year ago
I love that piece of music great job.
deloufu 1 year ago
I was always so curious about this Queen. I know she is the famous bloody Mary. I'd like know more of her rule, she was a catholic queen, there should be a movie about her. All I the movies where she is, are movies of Elizabeth or another queens. By the way great music, it has the essential Spanish style .
danielitaiyta 1 year ago
@danielitaiyta Mary is grossly misunderstood by English historians due to the fact that Protestants have written most to all of the history in England. Bastardized by her father following the cruel exile and early death of her mother, she was further persecuted because of her unyielding Catholic faith during his reign as well as that of Edward. While it is true that 300 Protestants were killed during her reign, thousands more Catholics died during the reigns of Henry and Elizabeth.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy Yeah that is true. I know that during the reign of Elizabeth, thousands of Catholics were killed just because of their faith. I knew that queen Mary Tudor's biography was misunderstood since history always highlights the fact of her bloody reputation. But history doesn't explain much about other facts. Such as her childhood, and her political trajectory.
danielitaiyta 1 year ago
@danielitaiyta
What is also interesting is that Mary spared Lady Jane and nearly all of the conspirators to seize her throne in 1553, an action that Henry, Edward or Elizabeth would never have undertaken. It was only with the second rebellion in 1554 and the insistence of her husband Philip II that Mary reluctantly agreed to the execution of young Jane. She also steadfastly resisted numerous entreaties to execute Elizabeth despite the cruelty of her mother, Anne Boleyn, against Mary.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
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danielitaiyta 1 year ago
@ligreekguy I read that Mary Tudor decided to leave the throne under the command of Elizabeth as a queen from England, Mary didn't carry out any battle. Even though she had all the right over England's throne because she was the legitimate daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Catalina de Aragon, In the other hand Elizabeth was not a recognized daughter.
danielitaiyta 1 year ago
@danielitaiyta
Hi, Daniel. Well, Mary died as the reigning Queen in 1558, and would never have left the throne alive in favor of Elizabeth, whose legitimacy she never really acknowledged. (Abdications did not occur in those days). However, she also faced the inevitable, that being that Elizabeth would be her successor. (Where did you read this account?) Catholics recognized ONLY Mary as legitimate, since Elizabeth and Edward were baptized in the Church of England.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy
Daniel: This is why Mary Queen of Scots was so important to Catholics. She was the cousin of Elizabeth, her grandmother being Margaret, the older sister of Henry VIII. Lady Jane Grey was the granddaughter of Mary, the younger sister of Henry, and Mary's line was given precedence over Margaret's because the English did not want a Scottish monarch on their throne. Of course, Jane was a Protestant, and Mary Queen of Scots was Catholic, so Rome obviously favored the latter.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy
Lady Jane Grey was an aunt in our family line. She was the granddaughter of Mary Rose Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, I believe. We are descended from Mary Rose and Henry.
My family had no idea who we came from before I began researching this year. Genealogy seems to lead into a great interest in history and one's own inherited traits. The women in my family have almost all been ladies, and highly intelligent, independent, and creative ladies at that.
carefulcarpenter 1 year ago
@carefulcarpenter
I truly feel sorry for Lady Jane, as she was a helpless pawn at the mercy of her cruel and domineering parents, as well as of Dudley. Ironically, she was treated with the utmost kindness as a child by her cousin, Princess Mary. Yes, her mother was Frances Brandon (1519-1561) who in turn was the daughter of Mary Tudor (younger sister of Henry VIII) and her second husband, Charles Brandon. It is also ironic that Mary Tudor Brandon was a devout Catholic.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy
Do you have an interest in Shakespeare?
carefulcarpenter 1 year ago
@carefulcarpenter
Yes, very much, why do you ask?
ligreekguy 1 year ago
So touching,I loved it very much!
Poldark3 1 year ago
Amen to that! Mary is consistently given a bad rap by the Protestant and secular (same thing) revisionists. She was a mother to both Elizabeth and Edward after both their mothers had been taken from them early in life. What hurt her the most is that these two same younger siblings sought to cruelly undermine her despite the love and kindness that she had shown them. Little bratty ingrates.
ligreekguy 2 years ago
Mary suffers greatly from history. Because the Protestants won the war in England. The real Bloody reign was that of Henry VIII. He killed Thousands, almost all catholic, with his reformation. He was more ruthless than Mary ever was. All said she was a Queen in her time and ruled as such. But she did show more tolerance in all areas of rule than any of her contemporaries. Her problem to-day is she was on the wrong side of battle, the one that lost. So propaganda went against her.
regszikora 2 years ago
I don't support Mary at ALL(I'm Protestant) but I t hink some of it has to do with the fact that she's a woman. Had a man committed those murders, no one would have cared(look at her father) but let a WOMAN commit ONE murder, and she's CONDEMNED to HELL! There's a double standard, and it's a sexist one.
evaperonfan 2 years ago
@regszikora that is true, but the fact of the matter is, Mary can't do anything to or for anyone now. The woman is dead. I've moved on and I'm more focused on people and regimes that are hurting and oppressing people today.
evaperonfan 1 year ago
What piece of music is this? It's beautiful.
OdessaLives 2 years ago
A XVI Century spanish song called "Dindirindin"
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
antoensepia 2 years ago
that looks like French mixed with Spanish though...
GoddessofHyrule 2 years ago
why does everyone think mary was carzy?
because she killed a lot of pepole and was called bloody mary? it was bloody back then thats the way it was and her father king Henry was not in his right mind if anyone was out of it so to speak
halyie 2 years ago
Well put.
faeryquene 2 years ago
thanks
halyie 2 years ago
no, Henry was just evil. There's no excuse for his actions.
GoddessofHyrule 2 years ago
Where do you find this music?
FragileThings331 2 years ago
Try in Ares
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
Oh, this is great. I love tributes to Mary Tudor. I admire her a lot. Good job! Glad you did it, because she doesn't have that many videos dedicated to her.
Gabbycrts 2 years ago
Thank you.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
@Gabbycrts There is a reason for that ........
rees276 11 months ago
♥♥LOVE it!! ♥♥
Thank you. Videos dedicated to Mary I are so rare. She's not liked by too many but she is my favourite Tudor Queen.
5 Stars. :)
audie83 2 years ago
Thank you very much. Why is Mary your favourite Tudor Queen? Mine is Anne Boleyn.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
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audie83 2 years ago
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audie83 2 years ago
As a child I had heard all the 'Bloody Mary' tales of the burnings that just horrified me. I was afraid of her in fact. At school they tended to paint her as evil and her siblings Edward VI and Elizabeth I as the good monarchs and I pretty much accepted the propaganda-until at about age 15 I got into reading about royalty (because of Diana). I pretty much went through books about all the royal houses from William the Conqueror on down. These were library books so not the usual school fair.
audie83 2 years ago
Sorry I made some mistakes and had to edit! Anyway to continue-one day at the library I picked up as I recall three books - one was about Anne the current Princess Royal (she was not called that then), another was I think about the Little Princes in the Tower the doomed Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York The third was "Bloody Mary" by Carolly Eriksson. Even now I can remember how Mary's portrait on the cover gave me chills. I still had some of the old childhood fears about her.
audie83 2 years ago
Erikson's book changed my almost automatic loathing and prejudiced view of Mary I forever. Interestingly the title of the book was deceiving. I think it was a rather compassionate portrayal of this much maligned, much misunderstood woman. It was the first time I had read of Mary's horrible childhood under a tyrannical father who happened to be a most ruthless despot of a King. I in fact changed my views on Henry VIII because of that book. He was ultimately responsible for the woman Mary Tudor.
audie83 2 years ago
Finally-If I am not mistaken it is Carolly Erikson's book that I first read about Mary's final days. If I recall the book correctly at the end when Mary was drifting in and out of consciousness she awoke once to tell her ladies not to weep for her-for she was having 'good dreams' of children singing. I always remembered that and I have felt a deep compassion for Mary ever since. Elizabeth was a great Queen-but she was fortunate to be brought up Protestant. And I've rooted for Mary ever since. :)
audie83 2 years ago
BTW-I always tend to root for the underdog or the one who is not popular or well liked. That is why I picked up the book on Princess Anne-I like her even though she is not the 'popular' Princess her late sister-in-law was. The Princess Royal has probably been involved in more charities than all her siblings combined but she is less liked and therefore left unsung imo.
audie83 2 years ago
I'm so sure she went to Heaven then.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
In my opinion Mary, Elizabeth, Edward and Henry Fitzroy all have gone on to their rest. Their father imo was an evil tyrant and his daughters especially suffered for it-Mary for the longest as she was the oldest. I do not believe she was in her right mind at the end of her days and who could blame her?
audie83 2 years ago
me neither. I think she probably suffered from some mental illness- her great grandma had it, but it tends to skip generations. It happened in my family- my grandpa has some kind of bipolar schizophrenia combo, and it skipped my mom, and I'm bipolar too :(
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
Wow - guess what? My dad was diagnoses as bipolar/schizophrenic and so was one of my sisters. I agree that Mary suffered from some kind of mental illness. I have read that Henry VIII might possibly have had syphilis and firstly that is what caused the many miscarriages of his first two wives, and secondly it probably contributed to his irrational behavior as he grew older, and finally-he likely passed it on through their mothers to his children.
audie83 2 years ago
yeah,exactly. It explains some of Mary's actions, although Elizabeth seems to have been immune(from the mental illness at least). I have Asperger's too(my other grandpa had it and- guess what? it skipped a generation again!- so that's why some of my comments are a little irrational. BUt my case is more mild than his becuase I'm female.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
I think all of your comments (that I've seen) are intelligent and well thought out. Not irrational at all! :)
I did not know it could be worse for males!
audie83 2 years ago
yeah, it has something to do with testosterone.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
Forgot to add-I love Anne Boleyn. I love all of Henry's Queens for different reasons. Katherine Howard is another one I feel for. She is usually portrayed as the sex-crazed 'dumb blonde' type. She was just a kid dealing in circumstances beyond her ken.
audie83 2 years ago
I thought you didn't like Anne...
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
No no-If it is possible to say one 'loves' persons one has never (nor could not possibly ) ever have met I can almost say that I do. I love all of Henry's wives. Perhaps the word I'm searching for is I feel a great fondness/affection for them all? What I do not love is Anne's behaviour towards Katherine and Mary. It pains me whenever I go back to read a bio on Anne. But apart from that-she did imo tremendously for England-she gave the world Elizabeth I. And she championed the reformation.
audie83 2 years ago
ah, I see. I feel the same way.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago