Definition of Mary tudor

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Bloody Mary, Mary I
Group relationships: House Of Tudor, Tudor
Generic synonyms: Queen Of England

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mary Tudor

Mary Magdalene
Mary Mallon
Mary Martin
Mary McCarthy
Mary McCauley
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Morse Baker Eddy
Mary Pickford
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Rose sauce
Mary Shelley
Mary Stuart
Mary Sue
Mary Sues
Mary Therese McCarthy
Mary Tudor
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marya Sklodowska
Maryann
Marybeth
Maryknoller
Maryknollers
Maryland
Maryland bridge
Maryland chicken
Maryland golden aster
Maryland yellowthroat
Marylander

Literary usage of Mary tudor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"... within the year of its publication, mary tudor died and Elizabeth reigned. It was then seen how imprudent had been the argument of Knox. ..."

2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"His last work was ' mary tudor,' published after his death in 1847, ... From ' mary tudor.' [A few moments before her execution, she takes her last farewell ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"mary tudor. An Historical Drama. In Two Parts. New Edition. By the late Sir Aubrey de Vere. London, 1884. 3. Sonnets. By Sir Aubrey de Vere, Bart. ..."

4. John Knox by Marion Harland (1899)
"ACCESSION OF mary tudor—KNOX'S MARRIAGE—BEGINNING OF PERSECUTIONS — EXILE ... Nine days thereafter, mary tudor, lawful sovereign by virtue of direct descent ..."

5. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Hence Una means Protestantism and Duessa " Papacy," or, more specifically, Una represents Queen Elizabeth, and Duessa a combination of mary tudor and Mary ..."

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