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Mary Longshanks
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Mary Longshanks

On 1553, Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII would die, and Henry would create a provision in the succession barring Mary from the succession and her catholic descendants from the English throne, favoring his second daughter Elizabeth, the problem was Elizabeth herself is considered a bastard by the other powers and it is Mary, Princess of Asturias who is the one that is recognized by the external powers who is the successor of Edward VI council would take over to decide who is his successor and they chose Mary over the choice of Edward VI of Jane Grey and the English Catholics would prefer Mary over Jane Grey since they loved the late Catherine of Aragon and the fact that Mary is the heir of Edward VI and Henry VIII not Jane Grey, when Mary landed in 1555 from Spain and assumed the rule of England and crowned as queen she would tie and burn her protestant enemies including Lady Jane Grey to the stake including the advisors and regents of her brother, Edward VI on his reign which would be a step to reverse the break of England from the Church of Rome, her successors are more successful since they would reap the fruits of her own labor.

On 1555, Charles V would abdicate leaving the Imperial crown, Netherlands, Burgundy and Austria to his brother, Ferdinand of Austria and Spain to his own son, Philip, he would leave and turn into religion now as a monk to rest for him moving in to Toledo as a monk, the death of Charles V’s mother Joanna would happen on 1552, the abdication of Charles V on 1555 would make the Prince of Asturias, Philip crowned as Philip II of Spain, Charles V would himself die on 1560.

Mary I would marry Elizabeth to someone of her choice which is Edward, duke of Guimaraes in Portugal since she would want Elizabeth to marry someone who is not harmful to her and banned protestants in high positions, however Elizabeth would die in childbirth with her only child in 1560 who died with her and the marriage would not result in any children and married her daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia to Archduke Ferdinand II and her daughter Catherine to be promised and later married to Karl-Frederick of Cleves-Julich-Berg to popularize her regime, her son Philip is chosen to succeed her after her death, the abdication of Charles V and Philip leaving would make Mary I in charge more of her Kingdom and on her death on 1559, Philip would be the regent for her son, Philip the Younger, initially during her term she would be known as the Bloody Mary by her detractors and later Mary Longshanks due to her pragmatic reputation and compared to Edward I of England who was a strong monarch as well.

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