George Wulweber

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George Wulweber was an English Protestant during the reign of Henry VIII.

He was imprisoned abroad and racked. He was described by the , Archbishop of Bremen in 1536 as: a seditious person who had violently usurped the government of the town of Lübeck, imprisoned the old rulers, robbed the church, and promoted the Lutheran heresy; not satisfied with which, he had raised war in Denmark and Holstein to the Emperor's prejudice.[1]

He was accused of being an Anabaptist,[2] apparently falsely[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. James Gairdner, vol. X, no. 400
  2. ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. James Gairdner, vol. X, no. 400
  3. ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. James Gairdner, vol. X, no. 469
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