Chapter 8. Father and Daughter
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch8
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) Father and Daughter, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch8
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Mary Tudor, Mary's birth at Greenwich, 1516 - not greeted with unmixed joy;
- Mary, richness of late medieval Catholicism;
- Mary's manner, that of a saint and something of a martyr;
- thought to have ‘beauty exceeding mediocrity’;
- one of history's ironies - that such a woman should have earned the name ‘Bloody Mary’;
- her five-year reign - arguably the most inglorious in English history;
- bitterly unpopular marriage - dragging England into a disastrous foreign war;
- absence of popular mourning - at her death in November 1558;
- love of dancing notwithstanding, dominant theme of Mary's training was in the service of God;
- Katherine of Aragon, bringing up Mary in fervent Catholicism - imbibed in Spain from her mother Isabella