Robert was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk He was educated at Cambridge.
He was an English protestant martyr who helped spread Lutheranism in England.
He was a prior at Austin Friars.
Thomas Bilney influenced him in embracing the teaching of the Reformers and in 1528 he escaped, to Antwerp for Germany where he formed a lasting friendship with Martin Luther.
In the summer of 1531, while in Wittenberg, he was commissioned to ascertain Luther and other continental divines opinion on the divorce proceedings between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. He spent several years going between England and Germany
A little more than a month after his protector, Thomas Cromwell, fell from favour, he was burnt as a heretic with two other Lutherans.
On July 1540, along with 5 other religious dissidents - 3 Lutheran and 3 Catholic-. he was drawn on hurdles from the Tower of London to Smithfield to be executed
Sources
Wilipedia
Briannica
The Hodder and Stoughton Book of Famous Christians.
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