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Noun: Mary I of England
  1. 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)
    - Mary I, Mary Tudor, Bloody Mary

Type of: Queen of England

Part of: House of Tudor, Tudor

Encyclopedia: Mary I of England