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John Knox |
| Born 1505 |
| Died 1573 |
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of a farmer his mother was a Sinclair |
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- Knox was a Scottish Protestant reformer.
He wanted to see changes in the church.
- He founded the Church of Scotland.
- He had to leave Scotland to avoid being
arrested because he argued that women should not have political
power.
- In 1547 he was captured an put in prison
in France.
- He was released after England asked
for him to be set free in 1549.
- In 1551 he helped write a Prayer Book.
- When Mary I
became queen he had to leave the country because they had sentenced
him to be burned at the stake.
- In 1559 he returned to Scotland where
he was tried for treason but acquitted (found not to have done
it).
- He wrote books about the things he
believed in.
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