Elizabeth Barton
See also: Barton
Elizabeth Barton (born towards 1506 in the County of Kent and carried out on April 20th, 1534 with Tyburn), known as the Nun of Kent ( The Nun off Kent ), and the holy young girl of London ( The Holy Maid off London ), or the holy of Kent , was an English nun .
It is famous to have highly to criticize Henri VIII for the separation of the Church of England of that of Rome, at the origin of the Anglicanisme
Biography
It entered as nun to the convent of the the Holy Sepulchre to Canterbury, and was given for prophetess. Serious men, inter alia the bishop John Fisher, accepted its bona fide.It was enthusiastic a partisane of the Catholic church for one disturbed period of the Histoire of England, when the King Henri VIII declared chief of the Église of England with an aim of divorcing his wife Catherine d' Aragon and of marrying Anne Boleyn. The Pape had prohibited this divorce, excommunicating Henri at the same time.
Elizabeth Barton claimed that it received messages of God during his crises of epilepsy, prophesying the death of the king in six months if he married with Anne Boleyn. Like spokesperson of the opposition against the actions of the king, it became very famous with London and through all the England. Its claims were supported per many leaders of the Catholic church. Prophecies of Elizabeth Barton proved nevertheless false, since Henri survived nearly fifteen years his marriage with Anne Boleyn.
Elizabeth Barton was captured in April 1534 by soldiers of the king, and was hung with Tyburn for treason.
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