Mary I - reign 1552-1558
The Tudor story cannot be told without Mary I's role. As the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon she did become queen of England in 1553.
Mary was the only surviving child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She was declared illegitimate and barred from the line of succession following the annulment of her parents' marriage in 1533, but was restored via the Third Succession Act 1543. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded their father in 1547 at the age of nine.
Apart from the fact that Mary I was proclaimed queen at Framlingham Castle in 1553 the reference to the Botetourts at Framlingham is a bit of a mystery to me.
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her
Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the
Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during
the reign of her father, King Henry VIII.
Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated
in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament, but during her five-year reign,
Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions.
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