Religious-based Hate politics- Under Mary I Protestants were the target- under later monarchs, Catholics- it was, let"s face it Hate politics in some cases allied with the (Irish Troubles) still a daily problem, though currently quiet. Indirectly, this must have motivated the American colonists in the direction of religious freedom and tolerance!
The buning of protestants started in 1555 England with Mary I.
"Bloody Mary", or Queen Mary of England (1516-1558), was a Catholic, and dealt severely with Protestants during most of her 5-year reign. As many as 300 were executed or burned at the stake for heresy.
He died for his religious beliefs...He and Nicholas Ridley were martyrs.
Queen Mary I of England, also known as "Bloody Mary," is infamous for having over 300 Protestants burned at the stake during her reign from 1553 to 1558. This persecution was part of her effort to restore Roman Catholicism in England after the Protestant reforms initiated by her father, Henry VIII. The brutal executions aimed to suppress Protestantism and reinforce Catholic orthodoxy, leading to significant religious and political turmoil. Mary's actions have left a lasting legacy of fear and conflict in English religious history.
Mary TUdor burned 283 people at the stake. As a leader of a country, she was most definitely responsible for more, but 283 people is the number of Protestants she had burned at the stake.
Mary I was a catholic. She burned protestants at the stake because she believed everyone should bow to Papal authority.
Because some 300 Protestants were burnt at the stake during her short reign. they were burned as Mary was catholic not protestant and as she was queen she had the power over which religion and as she was brought up as an extreme catholic she changed the religion to catholic.
One of her victims was the sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, in 1556. During the course of Bloody Mary's five year reign, she was responsible for 274 burnings. Her victims were condemned of heresy--being Protestant. http://home.comcast.net/~burokerl/burning_at_the_stake.htm Queen Mary I burned 284 protestants just because they held stongly to their faith..!
The first person that Queen Mary I burned at the stake was John Rogers, a Protestant reformer. He was executed on February 4, 1555, for heresy due to his opposition to Catholic doctrine and his role in translating the Bible into English. Rogers' execution marked the beginning of a series of persecutions against Protestants during Mary I's reign, known as the Marian Persecutions.
Burned at the Stake was created in 1981.
Henry VIII burned 81 people during his reign
Roman Catholic AnswerJan Hus was an heretic priest who was condemned and burned at the stake, he is considered by the protestants as one of their forerunners.