William Laud (October 7th 1573 – January 10th 1645) was Archevêque of Canterbury.

Biography

Resulting from a modest family, William Laud rises in the hierarchy Anglican after studies with Oxford. To advise Charles Ier, it is at the origin of a reinforcement of the episcopate Anglican which is worth the hostility of the puritans to him. Those obtain its death sentence for treason by the Parliament during the civil war. He is decapitated in 1645.

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