Oh, the perils of religion. It seems to turn up behind most things throughout history. Certainly it prompted More and Fawkes, and was used quite shamelessly by Henry VIII so he could have Anne Boleyn. And even today it’s still the reason for most conflicts around the world.
This article only deals with the three people mentioned above.
always Anne Boleyn … a moment to remember, instead, Anne Askew, which the BBC, Netflix and Hollywood will never do: it wasn’t enough for Henry to have her tortured on the rack, and then burned at the stake, but insult of insults, hers was a break with the Papacy over profound religious convictions, which it never was for her steadily putrefying king on the throne
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