John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the stake.
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Parliament declared Jane a usurper. She was tried on charges of high treason and found to be guilty for having signed official documents as ‘Jane the Queen’. She was beheaded the following February.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, despite being declared illegitimate following the annulment of her parents’ marriage, came to the throne as the next in line behind her Catholic half-sister under the terms of the Third Act of Succession.
Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit Protestantism.
On the 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer was executed for heresy.
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