Lady Jane Grey, 9 Days Queen of England 

The was a horrible history video about Lady Jane Grey

This is so historcal

Request: A bit of a sqeuel to the DNA Test 2-parter video, but can you do a 2-parter video on the DNA Test for the Genetic heritage of the 22 German states prior to 1918, since almost all of the 10 modern hereditary monarchs have more German ancestry than locally, please

Exactly she never wanted to be queen, it was men in her life that made her a pawn in this she thought when Edward was king she was 5th in line to the throne after her mother that she would would not going to be queen anytime soon until Edward change his will

Edward was a weird fellow...

Plus, Edward was still a minor so had no right altering the Act of Succession

​@@Shane-Flanaganhe was king at the time so he had the authority. But he was also taking advantage of by shady people plus I believe they were poisoning him so he and Jane were victims

@@ladynikkie Being a minor he didn't have full authority, that's why he had Lord Protectors so his he had no real right altering his father's Act of Succession which was valid

At 58 years it seems a complete and total waste of a young life! Poor Forced Queen Jane 😞 😢

Then her mom just carried on living as before under her daughter’s murderer in luxury it’s insane.

@@karawigley6231 IKR

I do believe the house of Grey went on through THEIR bloodline into the modern/current day/age

@redadmiralofvalyria867 ...I don't understand what you're trying to say...

Elizabeth was just jealous of my girls. It made things harder for them. But their stories are important, no matter what she thought.

@Lady_Frances_Grey True. She stayed on their necks because they found love and marriage, which was totally unfair. That and she was paranoid because they were heirs to the throne as well.

@@areiaaphrodite Yes, she's an old hag. Elizabeth was so mean to my daughters because they could have babies. She's scared of anyone who could take her place.

The sad thing is it wasn’t her fault but the men in control of her life couldn’t stand Queen Mary and their rebellion led to Jane’s execution😢

That poor, sweet girl. Used by her parents, her husband and in law and never had a choice in anything.

I have to agree.

I would personally consider her to be the second "technical" queen, but not a legitimate one. Same thing with Matilda as they were named as the heirs by the monarch most previous to them. They were queens by technicality although not successfully with Jane being only Queen for 9 days while Matilda was met with rebellion and disagreements about her ruling the country due to her sex. I will definitely agree with the sentiment that Jane's immediate family that has treated her so horribly before has wronged her even further when they pretty much caused her to be executed.

Hi friend.

But Jane was a queen

did you not watch the video? she had no desire to be queen, acknowledged the throne was Mary's, + was pressured into it @@cynthiaromo4170

Wow, thank you!

Henry must have loved Charles very deeply, it always amazes me that given how many people lost their favor and their heads, Charles survived through it all and Henry even paid for his funeral in the end.

Birds of a feather flock together.

James VI/I later executed his relative for marrying without permission

Although Elizabeth executed Mary, queen of Scots because she was directly involved in a plot to have Elizabeth assassinated while Jane was just a pawn who had no real intentions of taking the throne from Mary. So it does make Jane’s story more tragic than Mary, queen of Scots.

​@@ibrahimzayaan435Mary had spared Jane originally and had not intended on executing Jane and only did so thanks to Wyatt's rebellion. As long as Jane lived, Mary's reign would've been under constant threat of uprisings in Jane's name

If I remember correctly that branch was deceased from one of her brothers who she had married into a wealthy family once she became queen. One of the reasons people didn’t like was because of her marrying her kin “above their station” EDIT: I just checked Jane’s father was also descended from Elizabeth woodvile from her eldest son from her first marriage

wow so her parents were half second cousins??

@@rowennoonan6716yep, very common at the time. After the wars of the roses, so many noble men had been killed or imprisoned that the upper class in England consisted of pretty much 4 or 5 families that all traded brides back and forth. The Howard’s, Bolyens, Seymour’s, Neville’s and Percy’s were the main noble families and any prominent figure of the time is practically guaranteed to have blood or marriage ties to one of them. Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn were first cousins, Jane Seymour’s mother was a half-first cousin of Anne Boleyn’s mother and Catherine Howard’s father, Catherine Parr was married to Jane Seymour’s brother after Henry’s death, etc etc. It was basically one huge extended family

Yes that would be a great title! Great comment

queen Jane grey was not legal at any point.she had no desire, acknowledged it was Mary's right, + was basically pressured into it

@@andypham1636the King made her his legal heir. If anyone was at fault, it was him for changing the line of succession. She was legitimately the Queen, but Mary also had a legitimate claim, since she was wrongfully passed over

she was not legitimately the queen, since parliament didn't approve his devise of the succession @@Anna-B

@@andypham1636 This is true, but Jane had the right to tell Mary it wasn't her fault and pointed fingers at her family. She was abused and threatened all the time, What would she have to lose? exile to a nunnery? to France? She had a better shot to have begged mercy and leniency of the Queen by being honest and repeating in an abdication notice that she accepted under duress and had never entertained the idea of taking Mary's crown.

I love Lindsay's narration as well! She could talk about the exact process of how paint dries and I would find it entertaining. 😅

There is only one that I know of, the 1986 film Lady Jane starring a teenage Helena Bonham-Carter. The film is very well-done, though historically inaccurate in some details. There is definitely room for a new take on this bit of history.

Thank you so much!!

yes

Charles I in spain

I'd also recommend "Three Maids for a Crown" by Ella March Chase. It's fiction, but it expands the story to include her sisters, Katherine and Mary, who also had horrible fates. Both were imprisoned for getting married without permission. Katherine starved to death (either from depression after the long imprisonment or from TB, as a lack of appetite is a symptom), while Mary was eventually released, but fate kicked her one last time, dying of the plague on her birthday. Seriously, someone should make a series about the 3 Grey sisters.

How do you know that

@@ashtondmello1968 How do I know its Thomas Brydges or my 14x Great Grandpa?

Roots of objection to Catholicism tenets and certain practices date back to the end of the 14th century in various locations. E.g. the Lollards. Like Catholicism, the furore of Protestantism really depends on where and when but Luther's protest did kick of a series of events which culminated in different ways. Anglicanism for example was created in 1532, as nothing more than a ploy for Henry to disobey the Pope and have his divorce. It was Catholicism in all but name, and he even persecuted those holding extreme Protestant values. That doesn't however mean that the Calvinist/Lutherist ideologies hadn't spread already (the Greys, Katherine Parr for e.g.) - and once Edward came to power he had been fully indoctrinated with a radicalised privy council lead by Seymour. I'd argue that Edward and Jane were truly radicalised, whilst any executions or persecutions from Mary, Elizabeth, James and Charles being more political, security or influenced than fierce conviction (Mary obviously contrasting the others due to the traditionalist nature of her alignment and the manipulated reputation being put on her after her reign). It's really the 17th century where it becomes mass culture wars - both continental Europe (30y war) and UK (civil war). The death toll of the 30 Year War wouldn't be topped in Europe until WW1! The Puritans for example were considered extremists even then - by both England and the Netherlands (both Protestant nations) and is why they were exiled. Their radicalism caused the brief authoritarianism of Republic under Cromwell and is probably even why the US is WAY more religious than we are in Europe to this day

It most definitely isn't my fault. I won't stand for anyone questioning how I raised my children!!!!!

Thank you so much!!!

Could you please share the title for those of us who would like to read it? History is fascinating

Franz Ferdinand + Sophie's children were not Habsburgs, because their marriage was morganatic. Charles I + Zita's children were the last, actually

How do you mean? Handmade clothes made with the proper know-how are generally far sturdier than the flimsy fast fashion stuff we mostly have now, which is literally designed to disintegrate in two years. The fabrics of the clothes these royal people would wear were high-quality and expertly treated. If there was damage to a piece it would also be repaired, lengthening the life span of a piece of clothing.

​@@theashwoodfaerie Like a dedicated video to her I mean

he had some??

​@@andypham1636 several I believe

@@pedanticradiator1491 bruh I thought he was faithful to Elizabeth woodvile

@andypham1636 oh god no

@@andypham1636 I wish but I think he had 4? so that's why I want a video about it so I can be certain.

not disputing Matilda's reign, but she never styled herself queen, she called herself "lady of the English"

​@@andypham1636you are right but she did have power for sometime

Also, even though Cleopatra is typvially known as just that, she was actually the 7th of that name to reign in Egypt

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There was no legal precedent for that. If you declared Mary illegitimate, those same laws you used to do that would declare Elizabeth illegitimate. Plus, Edward appears to have legitimately believed the Boleyn marriage to be illegitimate. The marriage was annulled, so legally it never happened. Which begs the question, how could Anne have committed adultery against Henry when she was never married to him, but hey, Henry VIIi wasn’t one for logic and reason

She had modern medicine and nutrition. Women back then didn’t, and even today conceiving naturally at 38 can be a real struggle.

Mary was eager to execute Jane the moment her foreign husband said he wouldn’t sleep with her if Jane was still alive