Mary was described as “little, crook-backed and very ugly” by the Spanish ambassador.In May 1553, when she was about 8 years old, Mary was betrothed to Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton, her cousin, but the fall of her sister, Lady Jane Grey, in the summer of 1553, followed by the execution of Jane and the sisters’ father in February 1554 dashed the family’s hopes of a good marriage for Mary and the betrothal was dissolved.Through her mother, Mary was the granddaughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII. She was the youngest daughter, after Jane and Katherine, of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Frances Brandon. Mary was born in around 1545 probably at the Grey family home, Bradgate Hall in Leicestershire.Here are some facts about this Tudor lady… On this day in Tudor history, 20th April 1578, Lady Mary Keys (née Grey), sister of Lady Jane Grey and wife of Thomas Keys, died at her home in the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate, London. ![]() He died 18th April at his home in Grub Street, in the same parish. 1587 - Burial of John Foxe, martyrologist, in St Giles, Cripplegate.Bell had been found guilty of being a Catholic recusant and celebrating the mass, and sentenced to death for high treason. 1584 – Execution of sixty year-old James Bell, Catholic priest and martyr, at Lancaster.1534 – Prominent citizens of London were required to swear the “Oath of the Act of Succession”. ![]() At around the age of sixty, Clifford led a force at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 against the Scots.
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