Mary Tudor (27 page)

King Philip II by
Titian c. 1550
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Queen Mary I of England by Antonio Moro:
MARY PAINTED AS A HABSBURG CONSORT. THE FLOWER IS ASSOCIATED WITH BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE. SHE IS WEARING A JEWELED PENDANT THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM PHILIP ON THE EVE OF THEIR MARRIAGE
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Michaelmas Plea Roll (1556):
THE KING AND QUEEN PICTURED TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR WEDDING. PHILIP ASSUMES THE DOMINANT POSITION ON MARY’S RIGHT WHILST A CROWN FLOATS BETWEEN THE TWO, SUGGESTING SHARED ROYAL POWER
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Philip II and Mary I by
Hans Eworth c. 1558
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(photo credit 1.12)

Simon Renard by Giacomo Antonio Moro c. 1553:
THE IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR UPON WHOM MARY DEPENDED AS HER CHIEF CONFIDANT DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF HER REIGN
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(photo credit 1.13)

Cardinal Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury:
MARY’S COUSIN AND THE SON OF HER FORMER GOVERNESS, REGINALD POLE ABSOLVED ENGLAND FROM ITS SCHISM WITH ROME. MARY RELIED HEAVILY ON HIM IN PHILIP’S ABSENCE DURING THE LATTER PART OF HER REIGN
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“A Lamentable Spectacle of three women, with a sely infant brasting out of the Mothers Wombe, being first taken out of the fire, and cast in agayne, and so burned together in the Isle of Garnesey,” from Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs (1563).
(photo credit 1.15)

The Burning of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs (1563):
IT HAD BEEN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS SINCE CRANMER HAD PRONOUNCED THE MARRIAGE OF MARY’S PARENTS TO BE INVALID AND HAD MARRIED HENRY TO ANNE BOLEYN. MARY NEVER FORGAVE HIM
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Queen Mary I by Hans Eworth:
A PORTRAIT OF A MAGNIFICENT QUEEN. SHE LOVED TO DRESS EXTRAVAGANTLY AND KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPLAYING A STRIKING IMAGE OF ROYAL MAJESTY. MARY IS AGAIN PICTURED WITH THE PENDANT JEWEL THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM PHILIP
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(photo credit 1.17)

The signature of Mary I
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The head of Mary’s funeral effigy, displayed at Westminster Abbey
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