Introduction

We are learning about the Tudors in our class

so I decided to do them for my project. I
researched lots of interesting things about
them that you will find in the next following
slides. I have made sure that you will not go to
sleep so most of the information is either
interesting or gruesome.
 Who’s who?
In the next couple of slides you will find
information about the Tudor family. You
should find information about Henry the V11 ,
Henry the V111 , Edward the V1 , Lady Jane
Grey , Mary the 1 ( Mary Tudor) and Elizabeth
the 1.
 Henry the V11
(Henry Tudor of Lancaster) He was
King from 1485 to 1509 (24 years).
He defeated King Richard the 111
at the Battle of Bosworth and took
his crown. He married Elizabeth of
York to stop their two families
whingeing and scraping over the
crown.
 Henry the V111
Henry was king from 1509 to 1547 (38 years). He
was the son of Henry the V11. He wanted a son to
keep the Tudor family going and didn’t care how
many wives he had until he got one. When he got
rid of his first wife by divorcing her the Head of
the Catholic Church (the Pope) didn’t approve of
it…so Henry made his very own church (The
Church Of England) with himself as the Head. He
got rid of the Catholic monasteries with their
monks and nuns (the money he got for their riches
came in very handy) but still worshiped as a
Catholic, and chopped the heads off of those who
didn’t!!!
 Edward the V1
Edward the V1 became king from 1547 to 1553 (6
years). He became King at just 9 years old so he
had a protector called the Duke of Somerset to
“help” him out. King Edward was engaged to Mary
the Queen of the Scots, but this fell through. Just as
well, really , as Edward was a Protestant and Mary a
Catholic, which would have caused big problems.
The Duke of Northumberland, made Edward get rid
of Somerset. Northumberland became the next
Protector – what a surprise! But soon Edward was
sickly and died of tuberculosis at the age of 16 so he
didn’t rule very long either.
 Lady Jane Grey
She was Queen of England in 1553 until
Mary took over. Put on the throne by
Northumberland , who persuaded Edward
to make her his heir because she was a
protestant and the great-great
granddaughter of Henry the V11. She was
also Northumberland’s daughter-in-law!
Lady Jane only sat on the throne for nine
days then Mary Tudor raised an army and
walloped Northumberland. So Lady Jane
was pushed off the throne and her head on
the block.
 Elizabeth 1
Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 (45
years). She had to pretend to be a
Catholic while Mary Tudor was Queen ,
just to keep her happy. But changed both
herself and England into protestants when
she came to the throne. She had locked
up Mary (Queen of the Scots) and
chopped off her head because she was a
Catholic and because Catholic Europe
thought that Mary should also be Queen
of England. Elizabeth never married
because she said that she was married to
England!
Thank you for
reading