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. She and Margaret Cheyne are the only women on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.
She is also one of the earliest known female poets to compose in the English language.[2]
AnneAskew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who...
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down in history as one of the jurors in the trial of Anne Boleyn and as the father of AnneAskew, one of only two women to be tortured at the Tower of...
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and the sinking of the Mary Rose (1545), the burning at the stake of AnneAskew (1546), the publication of The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Kett's...
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executions were normally attended by large crowds. For the killing in 1546 of AnneAskew, charged with heresy and tortured at the Tower of London, a "Substantial...
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affectionate match, one which suited not only the buyer, but also the wife". AnneAskew Dodds, M. H. (2 December 1911). "Lady Bulmer Alias Margaret Cheyne". Notes...
described by John Bale as the "instructour" of his friend, the sacramentarian AnneAskew, and is considered by a modern historian, A. G. Dickens, to have been...
Ainscough is an Old Norse, Scandinavian surname, also spelled Ayscough, Aiskew, Askew, Ascough and Aynscough. It is thought that the name is derived from the...
1540), Smithfield, England Thomas Gerrard († 1540), Smithfield, England AnneAskew (1521–1546), Smithfield, England John Lascelles († 1546), Smithfield,...
mayoralty fell the second interrogation and condemnation of the Protestant AnneAskew, who was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1546. In 1547 and 1553, (during...
fourth season of Showtime's show The Tudors as the Protestant martyr AnneAskew. In 2011, she appeared in a small role in Series 5 of Skins. In 2013 she...
her father, although she had her mother's eyes. Historians debate that AnneAskew was never given the mercy of a quick death through a sack of gunpowder...
executed. Women were less likely to be among those so condemned; even so, AnneAskew, a writer from an important Lincolnshire family with family connections...
Executed for treason. German Gardiner 7 March 1544 Executed for treason. AnneAskew 16 July 1546 Burned at the stake in Smithfield for heresy Henry Howard...
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influential Protestant thinkers of the period, including Tyndale, John Calvin, AnneAskew, John Foxe and Richard Hooker; as well as selections from the Book of...
Rilla Askew (born 1951) is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in Poteau, in the Sans Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, and...
tried to incriminate her during the trial for heresy of the Protestant AnneAskew in 1546. Heresy charges were drawn up against the Queen, with the King's...
(Sunday Epistles on the whole Year, put into hymns). Other women include AnneAskew, Olympia Fulvia Morata, Ursula of Munsterberg (1491–1534), Veronica Franco...
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