Queen mary birth and death
Queen mary birth and death
Birth certificate.
Death and funeral of Mary I of England
1558 events in London
Mary I of England died on 17 November 1558 at St James's Palace in London. She was 42 years old.[1] Mary was buried in Westminster Abbey on 14 December.[2]
Privy chamber
According to Jane Dormer, Mary came to London from Hampton Court at the end of August.
She asked Dormer if she had recovered from her illness, a form of influenza called the "quartan ague", Dormer said she was well.[3] Mary replied, "So am not I".[4][5]
On 28 October, Mary added a codicil to her will, witnessed by her physician Thomas Wendy and others, which indicated that Elizabeth I would be her successor.[6][7] The sickbed was attended by an old servant, the chambererEdith Brediman.[8] The nature of Mary's final illness is uncertain.[9]
A decade after her death, Richard Grafton wrote that the loss of Calais to the French was the source of a depression