John was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the East Riding of Yorkshire. His surname is based on the local settlement and family seat: John of ‘Wycliffe’.
John was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the East Riding of Yorkshire. His surname is based on the local settlement and family seat: John of ‘Wycliffe’.
William Tyndale, born around 1494 in Lollard Gloucestershire, translated the Bible into English during the Reformation and was martyred for it. He studied at Oxford…
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Born in 849 the fifth son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, Alfred became king in 871 following the reigns of three of his brothers. From…
Philip Melanchthon (the Greek version of his German surname Schwartzerdt) was a German Protestant Reformer, expert in biblical Greek, colleague of Martin Luther, and the…
