John Rogers, Jr.

Birth	2/4/1507	England, Warwickshire, Deritend ⚑ More on this location Links GENUKI County Page
Educ.	1526	England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, Pembroke College ⚑ More on this location Links GENUKI County Page B.A., also educated at the Guild School of St John the Baptist in Deritend
Other	1537	England ⚑ More on this location Published one of first english Bibles, pseudonym "Thomas Matthew"
Educ.	25 NOV 1540	Germany, Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Add more on this location
Religion	abt 1543	Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Meldorf, Dithmarschen, Supt Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Meldorf, Dithmarschen, Supt All Lutheran All Lutheran Supts Religion Index Add more on this location
Religion	1550	England, Middlesex, London, St Margaret Moyses Ch, Minister England, Middlesex, London, St Margaret Moyses Church, Minister All Protestant All Protestant Ministers All Protestant Ministers here Religion Index ⚑ More on this location Links GENUKI County Page Roman Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism.
Death	4 FEB 1555	England, Middlesex, Smithfield Add more on this location Links GENUKI County Page Cause: burned at the stake excommunicated heretic
Grave		Burned at the stake as a heretic; a Protestant martyr

Aged: 48 years

Rev John "The Martyr" Rogers was condemned and sentenced as an excommunicated heretic, to be burned to death at the stake at Smithfield. This sentence was carried out the morning of Monday 4 February 1555. He was unable to spend time with his wife and children before he died, although they were forced to watch him being burned at the stake. He had been offered a pardon if he would renounce Protestantism, but he utterly refused it. He was the first Protestant martyr of Mary's reign.
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