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Mary I earned the nickname “bloody Mary” because she

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Because she ordered the burning of more than 300 people at the stake for heresy during her reign, Mary earned the nickname "Bloody Mary." Numerous Protestant dissenters were executed for heresy as a result of her regime's persecution of them.

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