page_title: List of people burned as heretics
section_title: Pre-Reformation Roman Catholic Europe
hierarchical_section_title: List of people burned as heretics / Pre-Reformation Roman Catholic Europe
caption_attribution_description: The martyrdom of John Hooper. Woodcut from the 1583 edition of en:John Foxe's en:Book of Martyrs. Source: [1]
context_page_description: This is a list of people burned after being deemed heretics by different Christian Churches. The list does not attempt to encompass the list of those executed by burning for other reasons. The Catholic Encyclopedia states that "with the formal recognition of the Church by the State and the increase of ecclesiastical penalties proportioned to the increase of ecclesiastical offences, came an appeal from the Church to the secular arm for aid in enforcing the said penalties, which aid was always willingly granted...deviations from the Catholic Faith, were by the State made punishable in civil law and secular penalties were attached to them." Canon 3 of the Ecumenical Fourth Council of the Lateran, 1215 required secular authorities to "exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics" pointed out by the Catholic Church, resulting in the inquisitor executing certain people accused of heresy. Some laws allowed the civil government to employ punishment. After they were convicted by the Church, they were turned over to the local government for execution because of religious restrictions that kept ecclesial clergy from actually carrying out the executions.
context_section_description: Ramihrdus of Cambrai (1076 or 1077) (lynched)
  Peter of Bruys († 1130) (lynched)
  Gerard Segarelli († 1300)
  Fra Dolcino († 1307) (never tried by Catholic Church), Italy
  Marguerite Porete († 1310), Paris, France
  Botulf Botulfsson († 1311), the only known person executed for heresy in Sweden
  Jacques de Molay (1243–1314), burned after conviction by a tribunal under the control of King Philip IV of France, Paris, France
  Geoffroi de Charney († 1314), burned with Jacques de Molay above, Paris, France.
  Guilhèm Belibasta († 1321), last Cathar, Villerouge-Termenès, France
  Cecco d'Ascoli († 1327), Florence, Italy
  Na Prous Boneta († 1328)
  William Sawtre († 1401), Smithfield, London, England
  John Badby († 1410), Smithfield, London, England
  Jan Hus (1371–1415), Constance, Germany
  Jerome of Prague (1365–1416)
  William Taylor († 1423), Smithfield, London, England
  Joan of Arc (1412–1431), Trial of Joan of Arc, Rouen, France
  Thomas Bagley († 1431), Smithfield, London, England
  Pavel Kravař († 1433)
  Joan Boughton († 1494), Smithfield, London, England
  Girolamo Savonarola, Domenico da Pascia, and Silvestro Maruffi(† 1498), Florence, Italy (hanged and then burned)
caption: Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555
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