Bloody Mary Gallery

I. Knox, (c1513-1572), 1830. Creator: Unknown

I. Knox, (c1513-1572), 1830. John Knox (c1513-1572) Scottish minister, theologian, and writer, educated at St Andrews University. Leader of the country's Reformation and founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Royal chaplain for King Edward VI and exiled to Geneva under reign of Mary I where he met John Calvin. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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La Reina Maria De Inglaterra, (Mary Tudor, Queen of England), 1554, (c1934). Artist: Antonis Mor

La Reina Maria De Inglaterra, (Mary Tudor, Queen of England), 1554, (c1934) The Queen sits in a crimson velvet chair, holding the red rose of Tudor in hand she has a tense and somewhat stiff attitude. Mary I (1516-558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants led to the posthumous sobriquet Bloody Mary'. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]

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Sir Thomas Wyatt dictating terms to Queen Mary in the White Tower, c1553 (1840).Artist: George Cruikshank

Sir Thomas Wyatt dictating terms to Queen Mary in the council chamber of the White Tower, c1553 (1840). Wyatt (c1521-1554) was involved in the failed attempt, organised by the Duke of Northumberland, to istall Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the death of Edward VI. He escaped punishment by Queen Mary, but later led a rebellion in opposition to her plans to marry Prince Philip (later King Philip II) of Spain. Wyatt occupied Rochester on 26 January 1554, but his uprising had little support outside Kent. He marched on London with 4000 men but an anticipated rising amongst loyalist troops failed to materialise and Wyatt's supporters began to desert. After an attempt to force entry into the City at Ludgate failed Wyatt surrendered. He offered no defence when tried for treason, but his execution was delayed because Mary hoped that he would implicate her sister Elizabeth in the plot. Wyatt did not do so, instead clearing her of any involvement from the scaffold. Elizabeth was however placed under house arrest and spied upon for the rest of Mary's reign. A print from The Tower of London a Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth. (London, 1840)

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