Last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England
The Reverend
Edward Wightman
Born
1566
Died
11 April 1612 (aged 45–46)
Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Cause of death
Execution by burning
Nationality
English
Occupation
Mercer then minister
Spouse
Frances Darbye of Hinckley
Children
7 children—2 boys and 5 girls
Edward Wightman (1566 – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy;[1][2] he was the last person to be burned at the stake in England for such a crime.[3]
^Wikisource: Dictionary of National Biography
^Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings, 735–736.
EdwardWightman (1566 – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy; he was the last person...
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convicted of blasphemous heresy and was burned at the stake, along with EdwardWightman. Another dissenter, the General Baptist leader Thomas Helwys, appealed...
are listed in Actes and Monuments, written by Foxe in 1563 and 1570. EdwardWightman, a Baptist from Burton on Trent, was the last person burned at the...
for blasphemy. His execution occurred 85 years after the death of EdwardWightman (1612), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England...
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burning at the stake for heresy in England took place in Lichfield, when EdwardWightman from Burton upon Trent was executed by burning in the Market Place...
original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021. "1612 Last Heretic – EdwardWightman". Burton on Trent Local History. Archived from the original on 11 April...
important Baptist figures in the struggle were John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, EdwardWightman, Leonard Busher, Roger Williams (who was a Baptist for a short period...
of heresy. Persons declared guilty, such as Bartholomew Legate and EdwardWightman, could still be burned under a writ of de heretico comburendo issued...
exorcist John Darrell. Also he had connections with the heresy case of EdwardWightman, burned in 1612. Around 1615, he encountered Francis Higginson, who...
London for his religious opinions, and died just three weeks before EdwardWightman, who was burned at Lichfield in April 1612, the last to suffer in this...
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1581 Fausto Paolo Sozzini, 1604 John Milton, 1608–1674. (disputed) EdwardWightman, 1612, burned at the stake Isaac Newton, 1642–1726/27 John Biddle,...
and Unitarian Universalist churches Religion in the United Kingdom EdwardWightman, early General Baptist Hill, Christopher (1977), Milton and the English...
in Stafford) a Roman Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987. EdwardWightman (c.1580–1612), a General Baptist, last religious martyr to be burnt...
2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 25 Aug 2014 Stephen Wright, 'Wightman, Edward (bap. 1580?, d. 1612)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford...
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anti-Trinitarian, is burnt at the stake in London for heresy. 11 April – EdwardWightman, a radical Anabaptist, is burnt at the stake in Lichfield for heresy...
cloth-dealer and last of the Smithfield victims; and the twice-burned EdwardWightman (1612). In all these, cases the anti-Trinitarian sentiments seem to...
Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author (b. 1535) 1612 – EdwardWightman, English minister and martyr (b. 1566) 1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan...
including that of Francis Kett in 1589, and Bartholomew Legate and EdwardWightman in 1612, after they in 1609 published a Latin version of the Racovian...
Center "In Search of my Son" Stillman K. Wightman account of recovering the body of his son Sgt Major EdwardWightman of the 4th New York Infantry killed at...