How Queen Mary Earned Her Bloody Reputation | Mary I - Bloody Mary | Chronicle

Queen Mary I of England, also known as Mary Tudor, was a queen driven by conscience and by faith. The first child of Henry VIII, she was the first woman to rule the country in her own right. But over her short five year reign, she gained a reputation as a ruthless and divisive monarch. She would send hundreds of her subjects to burn at the stake for what she believed was right. A vision of England, restored to its traditional Catholic faith.
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[@AnxiousJeff]

Anne Boleyn's friends' advice: "Don't lose your head because of that guy, whatever you do."

[@nobodysbaby5048]

I gave given that advice. Very glad she listened

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

Aye, her sister slept with him and didn't insist on marriage. She kept her head.

[@SGuyer1989]

Henry, her father, slaughtered thousands too, but he was a man, so no one calls him 'bloody Henry'

[@jennifermoriarty2188]

Peasants liked him for some reason...

[@dianesicgala4310]

He started the whole problem.

[@blee-bleep3906]

rlly explains how misogyny worked deep in history. honestly, at least mary set the stepping stones for elizabeth

[@RandomStuff-yt2wz]

History is written by the winners.

[@jamiemohan2049]

It wasn't cause of her sex, but her religion. Elizabeth I killed more then Henry VIII and isn't called bloody Elizabeth

[@j.dmetalhead7517]

I enjoy listening to Professor David Starkey's narration of these videos. He makes the past come alive.

[@messrsandersonco5985]

Sadly, he was deeply unpopular amongst his peers but his forté was the Tudors and he created a wonderful narrative which we could all find interesting and entertaining. He brought the past to life with detail and his POV.

[@Kay-xf4kl]

He’s great. Love documentaries narrated by him

[@aprilgosa5779]

Catherine was fat? I swear did Henry own a frigging mirror ! LOL

[@truecrimestorieswithcillawet]

When he married Catherine and Anne boleyn he was said to be quite slim and handsome. Wasn't until he married Anne of cleves that he got obese

[@yenh1144]

He got big later in life after a fall he had which led him to not be active & gain weight

[@marcfiore4319]

Actually, Henry VIII did NOT own a mirror, as they had not been invented yet. Small, flat, polished pieces of metal gave a dim, distorted reflection of a small portion of one’s own face, but plate glass was over a hundred years in the future, and methods of turning flat pieces of glass into mirrors were even farther in the future.

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

@C.W9270 must have been all them German sausage se and 9 percent lagers 😆

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

@C.W9270 he. Got speard during a joist nearly died but I didn't want him to die before he did that bar steward Cromwell in

[@aellipsis]

“Her usual neat handwriting begins to disintegrate” It looks like calligrapher wrote it.

[@juliebarnett9812]

I thought so, too.

[@GunRunner3]

Excellent tutorial about a sad, benighted woman who was cursed by a king who destroyed uncountable lives during his infamous reign.

[@suziemartin3587]

Fantastic ism is dangerous and that is what Mary was

[@michaelkottler]

If you're on the fence about screening this documentary, it is every bit as exceptionally edifying as it is engagingly entertaining. Educational and compelling, this is a history documentary done right and represents a worthwhile potential use one's time to develop a more well-informed understanding of English history. Thanks for hosting, Medieval History Docs.

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

"hundreds of subjects burned at the stake". Really?

[@susanwebber9247]

WE have a Jester here

[@kaylizzie7890]

If Mary had been allowed to marry when she was younger, there might have been a Tudor dynasty as long as the Plantagenets. Because of Henry’s obsession with producing a male heir there was only 3 generations of Tudor royalty.

[@aprilgosa5779]

I think she married when she wanted to she loved Phillip but h like her father only used her when it suited him

[@robinlillian9471]

@@aprilgosa5779 She married because she needed Spain. She hero worshipped Philip, but he cared nothing for her.

[@busyb1513]

And it all came to nothing , all that obsession, killing, paranoia about having a son . And in the end a girl ruled anyway So very sad and wasted

[@everyonesopinionisdumb]

They're all disgusting

[@colinlavelle7806]

Yes and had she pruduced an heir England might still be a cathoic country today.

[@Locutus]

David always narrates history videos very well!

[@CaseyBoles-bc2yk]

He rocks,yes david does

[@susanwebber9247]

But not always accurately

[@ElinT13]

I love the documentaries of this professor, I like his style and his clarity. Informative and yet entertaining.

[@Nae9211]

I though it was just me…. 😌😌😌

[@MzRage]

As do I!

[@Bigbaymonstermare]

I do too, but he was in some hot water for racist comments: In August 2011, Starkey attracted criticism for some comments made on the BBC's Newsnight programme where he was a panel member together with Owen Jones and Dreda Say Mitchell.[71] The programme discussed the 2011 England riots. Starkey condemned "this language which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that’s been intruded in England, and this is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country", that listening to the voice of the black MP for Tottenham where the riots occurred "you would think he was white" and that "The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture."

[@TheBinaryWolf]

Too bad he does not make the important distinction between Roman Catholicism and genuine Christianity.

[@TheBinaryWolf]

@@Bigbaymonstermare Sad that many facts have become politically incorrect. Truth is now racist. Sad.

[@jasonyu6649]

Queen Mary was someone “evil” that could be empathised with. She was a victim of her father’s moves, including the divorce of her parents, and subsequent mistreatments by Anne Boleyn. She wanted to prove her point, and she had to endure hardships such as not allowed to hear masses in her favourite language. These weren’t her faults. She was also educated to understand that males were more important, and so she tried her best to get a husband and an offspring, claiming someone to be used by God and blessed time and again, there was no reason why she would think otherwise. She is definitely bloody, out of the desire to clear all bad influences poised by the Reformed religions, and trying to make right of the wrongs in her eyes. And one more thing that I have learnt, is why Elizabeth I eventually chose not to marry, after seeing all these troubles from her father to her half-sister.

[@aprilgosa5779]

Jason yu also Elizabeth saw that marriage got her mother murdered

[@amandajones6481]

@ Jason yu Yes, I think you're right about Mary I and Elizabeth I. Elizabeth would have certainly been influenced by the events surrounding her, how could she NOT be? Elizabeth had seen what happened to her own mother, and to her half - sister Mary. Elizabeth spent most of her youth avoiding marriage. She even put her favourite woman in the world Kat Ashley - who had brought her up and been her governess since she was either 2 or 3 years old - in the Tower of London, simply because Ashley had advised her to marry the King of Sweden. Of course, she let Kat Ashley out of the Tower again, but it was certainly a warning - "Do NOT cross me, or you will be punished! And I won't be nearly as lenient towards the rest of you as I was to Mistress Ashley"!!! Not that she ever said this but she didn't need to say it. What she did say, however, was her famous speech to her troops at Tilbury: "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King. And an English King at that!"

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

I'm thinking that elizabeth was terrified before her ascension that she would be beheaded also, after she was imprisoned while young. Marriage, betrayal and death were closely connected. She herself said, " I will have one mistress here, and no Master!". I wonder if anyone has done a psychologist autopsy on her??

[@scooterbob1408]

Evil woman despite her faith

[@darrylrutledge6719]

Proving once again that Shakespeare was right. "Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned" Get the feeling he had Mary and Elizabeth I In mind ?

[@saraott6424]

I didn’t know her step mom (Anne Boleyn) was cruel to Mary… It gives her a new perspective. They always paint her mistress or a victim

[@justonedwards8049]

Completely changed my view of her tbh

[@--legion]

Mary has the reputation she deserves. Revisionist historians and feminists see her as a 'tragic' and 'misunderstood' figure, conveniently forgetting her murderous reign - burning hundreds, including sixty women one of whom was a nun. And do not forget the horrific burning of Perotine Massey who was pregnant: "And the said Masseys infant breaking violently out of the mothers wombe into the fire, was taken out once and presently throwne again into the fire and burnt."

[@LizC29672]

I believe Mary and Anne were equally horrible to each other.

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Yeah but mary was laughing when she got sliced

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

@--legion did liz 1 not kill anybody did Cromwell not kill anybody did james 1 not kill anybody

[@misspurr2573]

Every time i think about the atrocities committed by world leaders in the name of religion, I just dont understand why we still have organized religion still

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Correct the pain off the world over religion and there's dirt on every religion s hand thank you for great comment

[@--legion]

Religious wars: 123 out of 1763 wars - that's 'only' 7% of all wars. Publicly atheist leaders: More than 50% did mass killing of their own people (source: Encyclopaedia of Wars)

[@--legion]

Don't be smug. Over 50 million deaths have occurred in the cause of a Utopian fantasy by atheist leaders.

[@hominidspank]

Over 50 million have been sacrificed in the cause of a utopian fantasy by atheist leaders.

[@taffydavis471]

Years and years later afters saying bloody mary multiple times in front of the mirror in the toilets as a child in primary school, i am finally here finding out who bloody mary actually is lol.

[@jenzerr8856]

The Tudors always make me feel better about my dysfunctional family 😂

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

A lot of the turbulence of these times was Henry's breaking up of the monastic system and desire to have the wealth of the Catholic church added to his coffers. His people killed hundreds of priests,monks and nuns. When Mary came to power, she engaged in the same behavior to try to restore Catholicism. Her advisors and the nobles wanted it, and made it happen as necessary for their continued support. It almost always comes down to money 😐😐😐🤔🤔

[@sislertx]

Its mot money its power...money was their.way to to it...same today...just look at the corrupt BIDEN PELOSI clinton waters sheliea jackson shiftyshit brennan comey...the list.foes on and on today...

[@vivians9392]

And...thus power, of course!

[@Rls_0523]

And religion

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Many nobles were Protestant and went into exile like Francis Walsingham. He returned from the Holy Roman Empire after Mary died. More people than not supported Elizabeth I, a protestant. Mary killed her 1st cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey because Mary's brother Edward named her as successor in his will before he died aged 15.

[@Rls_0523]

@Ownerthekpwner if only that were historically factual

[@michellewalters4484]

I could listen to your lectures all day... Thank you...

[@TheIndependentLens]

Wow, that was her writing at 8 or 9 years old. I realize illiteracy rates were high back then, but if you were educated it seems that education far surpasses what people get today. Her handwriting alone at that age is extremely refined compared to today's claw marks.

[@herrschmidt5477]

it was quite expensive to write or draw. You couldn't simply take another leaf from your college block....

[@elayshobeycurrey9496]

As a teacher I endorse this statement

[@fitthickchic6732]

It helps to have rich parents who can afford a tutor. Not much has changed.

[@davidlogan4329]

Mary was the daughter of the King. That is why she received such a fine education. Her brother and sister also received such an education.

[@alyciaosborne6014]

Catherine made sure her daughter Mary received an education fit for a king not just an education for a princess. Catherine knew her daughter was going to rule England one day.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Its estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 people died from execution during Henry VIII's reign.

[@busyb1513]

Yes so they say and Elizabeth had a lot more than Mary also Quite a big number compared to Mary I wonder who they should have called bloody ?

[@geordiewishart1683]

Papacy is estimated to have slaughtered circa 50 million

[@bertplank8011]

A murderous c**t in other words.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Mary only ruled a few years and only went after Cathoic Zealots. Her father went after both and Elizabeth went after Catholics.

[@susanwebber9247]

@@busyb1513 Oh dear me. Mary Tudor known as Bloody Mary burnt alive 287 Protestants in her FIVE YEAR REIGN. Elizabeth I in her FORTY FIVE YEAR REIGN had executed 200. Do some Maths and work out how many would have been killed if Bloody Mary ruled for 45 years. I know a Catholic when I come across one

[@kathleenlovett1958]

I appreciate the vast knowledge of the presenter. I found this informative, entertaining, and highly enjoyable. Thank you.

[@iskhamza2239]

Problem with people who are evil is either they believe they are doing good or they are holding onto their past or both. You can tell yourself whatever you like trying to justify your actions but i never sympathize with people who are cruel and have a tough past. If your situation is current and if you're fighting your past to overcome it that i will sympathize with you for but if you never accept what happened to change for the better or do your best to get help to overcome this problem you're doing it to yourself and you will always be sad and depressed. Taking it out on others because of your past issues isn't any excuse. Mary is no exception nor are her actions.

[@NylaVox]

Agreed, Jeff~

[@user-yj7ve5zv9n]

their is no evil only power

[@sunnyhill5119]

Amen💯👍🤘💪

[@hgji7381]

What about the Ottoman Sultans? They were seriously messed up as well but would you say the same about them?

[@BloodAndGutsTV]

Well unless you are them, you don't understand and it's not your place to judge.

[@MaryManion]

Wonderful story telling, I enjoyed this. Thank you

[@joanneel9708]

Very interesting. and very well presented ….Thank You 👏👏👏

[@nipulkradmsinatagras8293]

*Such an informative and entertaining documentary right here.*

[@bristolpistol7860]

Love your work sir. Keep the episodes coming!

[@cnyulc1815]

It keeps you intrigued and interesting in history this professor why of teaching is passionate

[@tellswithada5978]

I love the fact that we have such documentaries to look back to always

[@donalee1975]

Ĺove the commentary by this narrator seen many of his work,..... thank you this lady is not as well known to me as others....

[@darrellhendrix5502]

Thank you for the information presented in as non judgemental a manner as possible. History by its very nature must be viewed through the lens of the viewers experience. Thank you for supporting my love of learning.

[@willhovell9019]

Dr Starkey right on form. Mary Tudors father was a blood soaked egomaniac. She by contrast was intent on the judicial murder of Protestants, and thus passed into reformed folklore. The most blood soaked monarch was Charles Stuart, 10% of his subjects perished in 2 civil wars of his Scottish absolutist making.

[@miryanski]

Great job Candace, amazing episode!

[@boyermchristopher1]

How can you only have 160,000 subscribers? Great channel. Looking forward to watching all of your content

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[@wingedunicornn]

​@@jesusisgod3318i don't understand your language but i subscribed anyways !!

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

Re the portrait of Henry @ 14:00 (approx) When one considers the gargantuan effort the artist must have made to flatter Henry, his face speaks volumes. I can't decide if that tiny twisted mouth is simply petulant or markedly cruel; I suppose it's both. However I think there was at least one artist who could be thankful his King was so desirous of being seen as slim, trim, and powerful he only cared not to have wrinkles exposed, or that heavy jowls and triple chins should disappear. Given his age, bulk and habits it's fantasy to think he didn't have a really obese face as well as body. That piggy face with its tiny humourless eyes and little twisted mouth are a very real indication of his nature at that stage of life imo. Remembering he probably wanted to be shown as a generous and beneficial king in the portrait, I imagine a real emporer's new clothes attitude by his courtiers.

[@Mar-ub3db]

Great video, thank you! ✨🙏🏻

[@heatheryearwood9199]

Yeah great video I'm not sleeping ....

[@robinlillian9471]

Henry VIII was even willing to murder his own daughter. He was a monster, indeed.

[@juttamaier2111]

He should gave. She was a monster as well

[@lazychef1547]

Thanks timeline

[@darkangelw8472]

It's very interesting. I live in Suffolk, so I definitely need to visit Framingham castle

[@mylogging145]

Even though I'm a Ghanaian I'm in love with this piece

[@MsMani2UBeauty]

Whew chile! It's no wonder Mary went postal! They took everything including her MOTHER from her!! I hate to say it but I woulda burned it all to the ground!

[@imonherenow3673]

Literally everything, I've always felt so bad when I hear her story. I would've raised hell on that throne.

[@complimentary_voucher]

ITA. The treatment of her by historians is SO misogynistic. Mary was goaded to hell and back by her useless douchebag father and husband. What was she supposed to do? Just be quiet and eat shit? Her power was no more abusive than any male ruler and yet here we are.

[@wungabunga]

@@complimentary_voucherYeah. I read that when she wasn’t casually burning 100’s of people, she was actually quite pleasant. If it weren’t for White patriarchy she’d be called Goody Mary.

[@fhenlizhao5406]

Can’t deny the way she was treated. If she was inclined to violence her childhood made it far worse.

[@Lucky_Chase]

100%

[@teresaedwards4025]

I love this series!!!

[@hallgeirpedersen4331]

What a great history lesson!

[@susanwebber9247]

But not accurate

[@hallgeirpedersen4331]

@@susanwebber9247 please enlighten me then

[@buringplumbranches]

Elizabeth listening to Mary's last will and testimony: Sure sis, im not upset at all about you imprisoning me, calling me a bastard child, slandering my mother or trying to force me to convert to your religion.....

[@juliancain3872]

It's not slander if it's true. Elizabeth was indeed a legal bastard as her parents were annulled, and that's not counting the change in religion and her marriage to Catherone of Aragon. Her mother was indeed a mistress and not exactly a saint. However, that doesn't change the fact that Henry's justification for executing her was asinine. The charges were false, and even if they weren't, if they annulled and never married, how could Anne have possibly committed adultery? And the pressure to change her religion was by far cruel. Inspite of all that she was heir to throne, but there was an argument that she was indeed a bastard.

[@susanwebber9247]

Greenwich Palace was also called the Palace of Placentia, for obvious reasons if you understand Latin

[@gwendolynrainbolt3849]

i think of Mary, as a scorned woman. by her father and family, her own husband didnt want her. so for her to express her anger and sadness she lashed out to innocent people. blamed them for her misfortune.

[@Danny30011980]

That actress with the gabled hood that plays with little Mary at 4 mins 57 very much reminds me of the sitter of the the portrait that was attributed (but is disputed to be) Mary Boleyn. She has a very nice, soft and medieval looking face

[@keddy5627]

Excellent documentary!!!

[@ChronicleMedieval]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@marypatten9655]

Sad. The Queen forgot. Vengence us mine sayth the Lord. Thank you for this history video God blrss

[@Laudon1228]

If the loss of her beauty and figure had been the only (according to Henry VIII) Catherine’s only “failing”he would likely have contented himself with mistresses. Anne Boleyn’s cannily guarded maidenhead would not have been the ultimate bargaining chip. Henry would have moved on to more accommodating “game”. Henry’s determination to rid himself of Catherine and remarry was that Catherine had born no surviving sons. Miscarriage and infant mortality were more the norm than the exception in the 16th century. Catherine’s first first pregnancy had taken far longer than normal. It and several other pregnancies ensued in sorrow and disappointment. The death knell of even fondness on Henry’s part was that Catherine had born no surviving male heirs. At the time, infertility and the gender of babies they did conceived were blamed squarely on women. Already older than Henry, adding in the fact that her appearance were the opposite of alluring to Henry, made made their even trying for another pregnancy let alone succeeding very unlikely. The irony for poor Catherine is that Henry’s succeeding marriages resulted in progressively fewer pregnancies, and only one more child. It’s now speculated that it was Henry VII himself who had fertility issues.

[@tochukwuifeanacho3843]

It wasn't him, could probably being a genetic issue, he was fertile to be having children but only girls who survived while male children end up in miscarriage meaning something was off genetically in his lineage

[@zoe1baby]

This channel is awesome. Very educational. Thank you. This was not available at my university’. I especially love it because I don’t have to take anything so I am at the end of the class!👍🙆‍♀️

[@kathrynjordan8782]

I agree 100% I'am learning more that what I did in my world civilization class in my freshman year in high school. This sure wasn't available at the college I went to. I love it!

[@xavisanchez7522]

There are a few gaps. Spanish is not a sole language. Caterina Darragon was a heir from the Catalan Darragon Crown,name distorted in order to fullfil a fake narrative of spanish empire that never existed as explained in books or in official history.

[@susanwebber9247]

Good job to. You wouldn't pas your BA, MA or Ph.d if it had been

[@smithamy1982]

I've already seen every single episode about the Tudors, and the Wars of the Roses, as well as every monarch who came after; most of which I've watched multiple times and yet here I am, click baited with a new thumbnail and yet I can't look away. What is wrong with me?!?

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

Nothing is ---- well, maybe something is wrong with you, but this ain't it. I'm obsessed with the adult writings of Louisa May Alcott. Have been amazed at the subjects she approached, up to and including opium/ hashish usage, child bride marriage, tattooed women, bigamy and priestley secularism. Who knew???

[@heatheryearwood9199]

You are interested ....that's good..it makes you happy 😊

[@scarletcourt9026]

This was an excellent historical reading. I love your dictation and style, Professor. I learned a lot of details about the Tudors that I didn’t even though I’m an avid historian, esp of all things English monarchy.

[@susanwebber9247]

If you want the truth read Agnes Strickland "The Lives of the Queens of England" in 32 volumes and written in old English.

[@lakshana5683]

I truly appreciated this video! Thank You for this neutral recount of history. ❤

[@busyb1513]

Not quite neutral

[@busyb1513]

How do you it’s neutral Were you there ?

[@woowah32]

@@busyb1513 Why’s that, Sherlock?

[@busyb1513]

@@woowah32 you tell me Dr Watson

[@woowah32]

@@busyb1513 I didn’t question it, you clown..🤦🏻‍♂️ Why is it not neutral? Can you not back it up?

[@amandajones6481]

Thank you Professor Starkey for this excellent analysis of Mary I. My father introduced me to your channel, and I love listening to your lectures on the Tudors in general, and, of course, on Henry VIII in particular. I know you have studied him your whole adult life and I really want to get hold of one or two of the books you've written on the subject, are they available here in Melbourne, Australia do you (or anyone else) know??? Warm Regards and all Best Wishes, from an Australian fan 😀 ❤, Amanda Jones

[@smithamy1982]

Check Amazon or Kindle

[@colinlavelle7806]

David Starkey might be learned but nevertheless he is biased, bigoted and anti-catholic!

[@susanwebber9247]

You won't get the truth.

[@julianaadams5751]

So, in actuality, the burnings were not ordered out of vindictive objectives. Mary had the notion that she was being punished by God becshe was too lenient in the punishment of the heretics. When Mary gained the throne after Edward's demise, John Dudley (Duke of Northumberland)Guilford Dudley ( his son) and his wife, Lady Jane Gray (Queen of Nine Days) weren't executed, just held prisoner in the Tower. She gained the nickname "Merciful Mary" and the respect and love of her people for her forgiveness. In my opinion, her change in thinking was brought about by several factors. After Wyatt's Rebellion, she realized that things weren't all peaches and cream, and not all of England wanted to be under the thumb of the Pope, and of Spain. (They remembered the not-so-distant past and the harsh reality of the Spanish Inquisition. With the anguish, the embarrassment, the degradation of the "baby that wasn't) added to everything else, I'm sure she was mentally incapable of processing everything at once. Therefore, she did what countless monarchs, before and after have done. She blamed it on God. God was angry with her. God wanted her to burn the heretics. God wouldn't allow her to get pregnant. And so evolved...Bloody Mary.

[@Palimbacchius]

Lady Jane Gray (Queen of Nine Days) wasn't executed? You're an ignorant fool.

[@benzomanic2972]

The narrator is awesome but I cant stop staring at how his head moves when he talks...

[@kellydaly6289]

David Starkey. He does an amazing job.

[@chrystalblue7170]

Thanks now I can't unsee it.

[@ediitzz9741]

Now thats all i can see lol

[@davidlewis8814]

Yeah he is something of an informative woodpecker

[@Cholosaurus360]

Just a little intellectual charm ❤

[@nikkielpert4571]

I've watched his entire series on the monarchy I love professor David Starkey especially on crappy cloudy days or when migraines hit me

[@sythiadawn]

Timeline sent me. I think I'm going to stay. Subbed.

[@ChronicleMedieval]

Welcome aboard :)

[@patcheezy1985]

Samething happened to me aswell!

[@ericchristian6710]

I'm a scythian.

[@lorisewsstuff1607]

Me too!

[@BadgerBabe89]

Same 😁

[@machiavellifire4006]

I would love for starz or showtime to make a series on Bloody Mary

[@alyssawhite8657]

I would also love to see a show about Mary and Edwards life there are so many movies about Elizabeth

[@jackierico449]

@@alyssawhite8657 a little late but way too many!! I’ve been trying to find a movie about Mary but no success 😭😭 we sure do need at least one movie or like mark mentioned a STARZ or showtime serie!!

[@vilmacarande-kulis7769]

@@alyssawhite8657 The new movie “becoming Elizabeth, it shows you a lot about Mary and Edward.

[@boondocks8002]

He said no woman ever reigned England before Mary. What sbout Maud around 1000-1100 ad. She nominated herself emperor Maud. It was a short reign though

[@heatheryearwood9199]

Wiw l like her chosen title

[@libiusperseus]

You mean Empress Matilda ? She was supposed to become queen of England but never really did because her cousin took the throne first. As for her title of empress, it came from her first marriage to the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

[@andrem.thomas332]

They'll write women out of history any chance they can.

[@mrfearsmom8857]

I absolutely think Karma was the repayment to Henry. His unwanted forgotten daughter Elizabeth not only ruled as a virginal sovereign but far out ruled her father, brother and sister.

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

I bet Mary tudor pissed herself laughing when boleyn got her napper lopped off 🪓😅

[@mrfearsmom8857]

@@DavidBroadley-tw7ks I'm sure she was in the least happy to see her go. Wasn't it with Henry Jane Seymour that invited Mary back to court?

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Yes Jane Seymour was good to mary better than her father was he disowned her cause she wasn't a son I don't think Edward her half brother wud have got on much with Mary he was staunch prodestant but died at 14 caught typhoid I think swimming in the Thames but he would have been a nitemare for roman catholics when he got older

[@mrfearsmom8857]

@@DavidBroadley-tw7ks I couldn't imagine 🥴

[@leeshackelford7517]

She was unwed, but doubtful virginal

[@mariarojas4205]

Hard to believe she was so cold to burn people on the fire. She had all the riches, but sadly she had no heart

[@busyb1513]

No different from many of her time . One of the men she burnt Cranmer quite happily sought the ruin and execution of Catherine Howard and her supposed lovers What goes around comes around Many were pretty bloodthirsty at that time ,it was a way of life Maybe we ought not to judge people who we don’t understand

[@tochukwuifeanacho3843]

Circumstances shape people, so easy to judge when you are not in their shoes

[@julielarge6120]

What gives any person whether they have the position of power or not the right to do such dreadful things? These people weren't followers of Christ. She had a sad life but was a monster

[@JustReed]

Approx. 40,000,000 we're put to they're death in the 3 inquisitions. That was Christianity at this time. Believe or ELSE!

[@lindasands1433]

Great storytelling 👍

[@WKRPwpig]

What a last statement in the video!

[@pattylevesque2601]

Katherine had a hint of that infamous 'Hapsburg Jaw'...eewww

[@AshleyLebedev]

So unfair for starkey to just say “Catherine had grown fat and ugly” - As a lifelong researcher of this topic that’s not so easily stated. Maybe she did maybe she didn’t. She definitely got heavier but for a historian to just state that, really distasteful. State that Henry was besotted by a new person, and Henry had grown bored knowing Catherine was past her childbearing years. Respect her.

[@sucrette69]

Catherine wasn't ugly...

[@sucrette69]

Henry was...

[@poleen000]

I was thinking the same.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Yes, that line really bothers me too. It sends the worst kind of message to younger viewers. I absolutely agree with your comment.

[@Cbd_7ohm]

@@SecretSquirrelFun Triggered.

[@carolynfehr]

This “documentary” leaves so much out!

[@user-bn6ot2mq7v]

Excellent history lesson Brrr

[@katehigen7018]

She suffered a lot , disowned by her father and treated harshly by the upstart Anne Boleyn . The death of her dear mother must have left her feeling completely alone and abandoned . I do feel very sorry for her indeed As for the killings she committed, people often try and judge the medieval world with our modern standards of morality, without realizing how starkly different morality and life was back then. Mary wasn't the only ruler to kill people, her sister Elizabeth killed lots of people too but she's not demonized for it

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Liz 1 killed catholics james 1 killed witches that wernt witches Cromwell what a butcher Edward 1 slaughtered Berwick don't get started on the plantagenet s they wud slit there granny's throat for the crown

[@Lightstar449]

Great speech by Queen Mary in Parliament

[@EuphemiaGrubb]

17.48 Is that a photograph behind David Starky? lol!

[@johnshields6852]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@vikkistewart5455]

The Great Schism is actually the splitting of the Roman Catholics and Orthodoxy.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

He was using the phrase as satire.

[@user-gd3xy2vl1s]

Love Dr Starkey :-)

[@yiping1717]

Good history story!

[@kevinc809]

Anything that David Starky does is good. Btw Catherine of Aragon and Mary both had a stronger claim to the English throne that Henry.

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

If only henry would've been happy with his daughter succeeding him. Alot of troubles would have been avoided

[@aprilgosa5779]

I googled and it is said there was very little or no hard evidence that Mary was mistreated or abused by Anne Boleyn and actually that Mary was the one who refused to recognize Anne as Henry's wife or as Queen

[@jomc6734]

It was about extending the Tudor dynasty. If a daughter succeeded him, married and had children, the reign of the Tudors would end as the child would take the name of the father. For instance, when Victoria became Queen, it was the House of Hanover reigned but when she married Prince Albert, it because the House of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. A similar thing happened on the current Queen's accession. Prince Philip's uncle was gloating about the House of Mountbatten and, I think it was Churchill and the Queen Mother, who convinced Elizabeth to announce it would continue to be known as the House of Windsor.

[@dianesicgala4310]

I agree.

[@busyb1513]

Very true

[@gymynycricket1722]

No chance

[@michaelfrost4584]

I always felt sorry for poor Lady Jane Grey.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Mary was going to let her live but Jane's father and other men led a rebellion while Jane was in the Tower so Mary decided Jane was too dangerous to live. Jane had a strong claim as she was Henry VII's granddaughter.

[@colinlavelle7806]

Yes and so do I....one person (amongst many) was Thomas Cranmer the protestant Abp of Canterbury who against the WILL (document) of Henry VIII promoted Lady Jane as Quenn.

[@gymynycricket1722]

Wrong place wrong time

[@peterroberts4509]

Elizabeth executed more opponents than Mary

[@michaelmiranti4359]

Powerful winners write history... sadly

[@80harrison]

Documents?

[@Joebethere7]

Um , you skipped over Jane Grey's execution, after only nine days, who was accepted by everyone, even king Charles. Completely innocent young girl.

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Valid point.

[@urmomisanicelady6760]

True it was skipped over but it was A little more complex, he originally didn’t want to execute Jane, (janes story is pretty tragic as she never even wanted to become queen but that aside) Jane wasn’t necessarily completely innocent but she was heavily manipulated. But back to the point originally Mary forgave Jane, but due to the actions of Janes father in attempting to get Mary to renounce the throne and so on Jane was executed after months of Mary refusing to sing janes death warrant

[@tarielkaroldan4106]

​@@urmomisanicelady6760*sign

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Mary tudor didn't have have her executed Jane didn't even want the throne

[@zoe1baby]

I would love to see these documentaries made into movies.

[@kathrynjordan8782]

I would too. They would probably be more accurate than what we see in the movies that Hollywood produces these days.

[@saramason8554]

In 2020, Showtime produced “The Spanish Princess” which ended after one season…☹️

[@annacostello5181]

They have been. Ad nauseam

[@christineh2843]

@@saramason8554 it actually lasted 2 seasons but wasn't completely factual.

[@laureluresalyer4557]

You can watch The Tudors on Netflix and watch the whole story. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Why am I promoting Netflix? Ack!!

[@anna3036]

Not really much about how she earned her reputation. The why was answered, certainly. We learned why she did it and it was because of her upbringing and how she suffered at the hands of her father. Going by the title, (how she earned her bloody reputation), it should have been concerned with the burnings themselves and particularly how she reacted to the various rebellions by Protestants. How people begged for her clemency, various times she wrote about the burnings and how she may have felt they were making an impact. At what point she went from a popular queen to Bloody Mary, perhaps. What her subjects were saying about her. But no, just a bit about some burnings.

[@starkilr101]

David Starkey. Instant like

[@scottbrandon6244]

The narrator wrote a good book on Elizabeth I.

[@darrylrutledge6719]

Amazing that Henry called Catherine "fat and unattractive." He must have smelled awful back then.Not to mention to this day there was no one fatter than him.

[@jamieorourke767]

No one bathed,so no one cared

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

​@jamieorourke767 I think Henry was talking about Anne off cleves not his daughter Mary who wasn't fat or ugly her mother Catherine off aragon was a buety at a young age

[@christinecallahan5512]

30.27 she was N O G O O D ROULER ......... She was a MONSTER......

[@keddy5627]

Tried to sign up for History Hit but discount code did not work…?

[@VanillaGrollia.]

🤴🏼👸🏼💪🏻😎.....Very tough , strong and sisphstcated and complex people in those days

[@laurencejones7554]

Has anyone ever seen Lady Jane, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Jane Grey and Cary Elwes as Lord Guilford Dudley ? I wonder how much of it is historically accurate.

[@endo2th]

Great movie.

[@toffanful]

Mick Jagger and the R Stones sang about Lady Jane in the 60's. There is a great live version of the song on YT on the Ed Sullivan Show /Rolling Stones Song: Lady Jane

[@leahs7024]

Curiois! I wached a film about Henry the 8th where Helena Bonham Carter played Anne Boleyn!

[@daniellenelson5300]

It would be so cool to visit one of those medieval castles, i visited the house of the 7 gables in Salem Massachusetts close to a decade ago, it was built innthe 1620s and i thought that was old, even my apartment is old (to me) it being built in 1872, the older the cooler in my opinion

[@JOHN-tk6vl]

Cool? Meaning what?

[@daniellenelson5300]

@JOHN-tk6vl history wise, the fact that it goes back so far is interesting to me. being from America we don't have structures older than 17th century

[@jakubkuzminski5670]

Super Film

[@halilmertkarahan5704]

A very nice documentary 0:05 Does anyone know the music playing?

[@tipsyrobot6923]

Pomp and circumstance and burning humans alive. How gross. Let's talk about the disgusting side of the monarchies, and perhaps stop celebrating these monsters. Cranmer recanted, and was still burned, dispelling any notion that this was about religion and more about vengeance.

[@JasonSmith-eu4ng]

I would really enjoy these so much more if KZbin didn’t stick a random commercial in literally every 5 minutes KZbin this is truly ruining people’s videos. I would accept 1 solid 15 minute stage of commercials per day if it meant you wouldn’t constantly disrupt the subjects I am trying to enjoy!!!

[@robertgold7652]

I wish I could watch this... either I can't hear the audio and the ads don't Blair. Or I can hear the audio up to the point the first ad plays and now I'm deaf.

[@ehwajensen6494]

흥미롭다.. 우리들의 선조가 살아 간 시대들을 보게 되는 건 매우 즐거움 속의 날라지인 하는 일이다 객과적, 다른 각도에서의 외부 현상도 조금씩 보여 주면 시청자는 더 웰 에쥬케이트 될 것.. 긍정적 측면에서....

[@aprilgosa5779]

Mary's biggest downfall well one of them was she blamed Anne and Elizabeth for the things her father had done to her and her mother when she should have blamed him

[@fhenlizhao5406]

You have to remember that she had a front row seat to abuse of her mother and the whole stepmother not liking you thing made it worse. Sooooo yeah.... none of them were angels.

[@theendofanerror4173]

So we're just going to ignore the part where they said the homewrecker used to slap and find ways to humiliate Mary… By HER OWN volition. Of course Starkey doesn't mention to fans of the beloved homewrecker how she was looking for ways to KILL Mary. Making HER OWN plans to kilI. She had EVERY RIGHT to blame that thot but I guess that's Henry's fault as well. 🙄

[@annabanana7659]

Definitely not Anne who told her servants to physically abuse the child and call her a bastard when Mary's own mother was the legitimate wife and queen while Anne was a side chick who seduced her way to the king's bed : /

[@TheLochs]

Its crazy how man made rules bring such calamity.

[@segsmat]

I agree😊

[@mariaimperatricedamore1639]

Wonderful doctor Starkey. My male favourite. Among ladies, there are many wonderful historians