1528 – 1558 Protestants Burned as Heretics

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Title

1528 – 1558 Protestants Burned as Heretics

Description

Between the 1520s and the 1550s the Roman Catholic authorities in Fife severely punished a number of Protestant sympathisers. No less than four Protestants were burned at the stake in St Andrews. The first and most high profile of these was Patrick Hamilton, whose execution in 1528 was so badly mishandled that he took six hours to die. Henry Forrest, George Wishart, and Walter Myln also suffered the death penalty for spreading reformist beliefs.

Source

timelineoffifesreli

Date

1528

Contributor

egsr@st-andrews.ac.uk

Language

English

Type

Event

Identifier

132

Europeana

Europeana Data Provider

Sacred Landscapes of Fife

Europeana Type

TEXT

Event Item Type Metadata

Wiki

https://fifecoastalzone.org/wiki/index.php/1528__–_1558 Protestants_Burned_as_Heretics_Event

End Date

1558

Prim Media

272

Citation

“1528 – 1558 Protestants Burned as Heretics,” Virtual Museum, accessed May 12, 2025, https://sacredlandscapes.org/omeka/items/show/273.

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