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Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
Throughout most of history women were unofficial theologians. They would write and teach, but did not hold official positions in Universities and Seminaries. Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, women theological scholars began to be appointed to formal faculty positions at theological schools.
Sister in law of Anne Boleyn and also the widow of Lord Rochford (George Boleyn) lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. Executed for treason. German Gardiner: 7 March 1544 Executed for treason. Anne Askew: 16 July 1546 Burned at the stake in Smithfield for heresy Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: 19 January 1547 Executed for treason.
Anna Jansz on the way to her execution, supposedly giving away her child, etching by Jan Luiken from the Martyrs Mirror, 1685. Anneke Esaiasdochter (also Anna Jansz, Anneken Jans or Anneke van Rotterdam; 1509–1539), was a Dutch Anabaptist executed as a heretic and at the time regarded as a Protestant martyr.
painter, also an Ely Martyr Oxford Martyrs 71. Hugh Latimer (or Latymer) Baxterley, Warwickshire [103] clergyman – chaplain to King Edward VI burnt 16 October 1555 outside Balliol College, Oxford [7] [104] 72. Nicholas Ridley: Fulham Palace: clergyman – Bishop of London under Edward VI Canterbury Martyrs of November 1555 73. John Webbe (or ...
The year was marked by the celebrations for the Treaty of Ardres and the great Midsummer Watch conducted through London by the Lord Mayor; there were also various executions for heresy and treason which it was the Sheriffs' duty to see performed, not least the burning of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew.
Historians frequently describe the event as the formal start of the East ... Cordoban deacon and martyr (b. c. 825 ... 1546 – Anne Askew, English author and ...
Anne Askew (1520/1521–1546), English poet and Protestant persecuted as a heretic; Anthony Askew (fl. 1699–1774), English physician and book collector; Barry Askew (1936–2012), English newspaper editor; Christopher Crackenthorp Askew (23 May 1782 — 7 December 1848), Royal Navy Captain; Desmond Askew (born 1972), English actor