Wheeler/Ethridge/Zeller/Dunkin Family Tree » Edward Wightman (1566-1612)

Persoonlijke gegevens Edward Wightman 

• Hij is geboren op 20 december 1566 in Burbage, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England.
• Hij is overleden op 11 april 1612 in Lichfield, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England, hij was toen 45 jaar oud.

  Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown. Specifically: Memorial plaqu

• Een kind van John I Wightman

Gezin van Edward Wightman

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Frances Darby.

Kind(eren):

1. John II Wightman  1599-1663 

Notities over Edward Wightman

English religious martyr. Edward Wightman was the last religious martyr in England to be burned at the stake. He was burned to death tied to a post in the market place next to Saint Mary's church in Litchfield, Staffordshire, England, for heresy. Like the pilgrims on the Mayflower, Wightman was a separatist, in opposition to the Church of England. He proposed such ideas as the theory that the soul does not leave the body at death, but stays with the body until judgment day, when the soul either ascends to heaven or descends to hell. However, his doctrine which probably most directly led to his death was his rejection of Trinitarianism. Wightman argued that that the doctrine of the Trinity was a fabrication, and Christ was only a man, not both God and man in one person. Wightman was tried and convicted, and sentenced to be excommunicated and condemned to be burned at the stake following approval by King James I, after whom the King James version of the Bible is named. Wightman was first tied to the post to be burned on March 20, 1612. But, he disavowed his views when the fire was lit under him. The fire was put out, and he was untied. However, once he was untied from the stake, he refused to sign a written recantation, so King James I approved his execution again. A few weeks later, he was martyred by burning at the stake on April 11, 1612. Approximately eight years later, several fellow separatists sailed to North America as pilgrims on a ship called the Mayflower to flee from such religious persecution.

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