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Mary Tudor

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Mary Tu·dor  (tdr, ty-)
See Mary I.
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Noun1.Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
House of Tudor, Tudor - an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)


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When Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's Catholic elder daughter, inherited the throne and set about ruthlessly purging the country of religious reformists, Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, was one of 300 victims.
With the restoration of Catholicism under Mary Tudor, the Italian reformers were once again exiles and the humanist, but orthodox, Cardinal Pole brought a different Italianate style.
Austin beautifully reconstructs Tremellius's time as the Regius professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, a tenure cut short by the deteriorating status of the Protestant faith in England with the accession of Mary Tudor.
 
 
 
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