Marian persecutions

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The Marian persecutions were a series of executions of English Protestants under the Catholic reign of Queen Mary I in the 1550s, intended to restore Roman Catholicism in England.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anti-Protestant campaign
religious persecution
appliesToJurisdiction Church of England
chronology mid-16th century
country Kingdom of England
describedBySource Acts and Monuments
documentedIn Foxe's Book of Martyrs
endTime 1558
follows Protestant Reformation in England
hasCause rejection of papal supremacy by English Protestants
restoration of Roman Catholicism in England
reversal of Protestant reforms of Edward VI
hasEffect association of Mary I with the epithet "Bloody Mary"
growth of anti-Catholic sentiment in England
martyrdom of leading English Protestants
publication of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
strengthening of English Protestant identity
legalBasis heresy laws restored under Mary I
location England
mainSubject English Reformation
mannerOfDeath execution by burning
numberOfVictims about 280
opponent Protestant reformers
opposedReligion Protestantism
participant Edmund Bonner
English Protestants
Hugh Latimer
John Hooper
linked to: Hugh Latimer

John Philpot
John Rogers
Nicholas Ridley
linked to: Thomas Cranmer

Reginald Pole
Rowland Taylor
Stephen Gardiner
Thomas Cranmer
partOf English Counter-Reformation efforts
linked to: Counter-Reformation
perpetrator Marian government
Mary I of England
Roman Catholic authorities in England
religion Roman Catholicism
religiousConflict Catholic–Protestant conflict in England
significantEvent burning of Protestant heretics at the stake
significantPlace Canterbury
Colchester
Gloucester
London
linked to: London, England

Oxford
Smithfield
startTime 1555
reign of Mary I (1553–1558)
temporalContext reign of Mary I of England

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John Rogers event Marian persecutions
subject linked to: Adriana de Weyden
Mary I of England notableEvent Marian persecutions of Protestants
linked to: Marian persecutions