Facts: - diocese: diocese of winchester - title: bishop of winchester - elected: 8 march 1551 - predecessor: stephen gardiner - birth date: c. 1514 - church: church of england - death date: august 1556 - spouse: 2 wives - name: john ponet - death place: strasbourg - consecration: 29 june 1550 - successor: stephen gardiner - ordination: 10 june 1536 -lrb- priest -rrb- - nationality: english - occupation: theologian - alma mater: queens ' college , cambridge - other post: bishop of rochester -lrb- 1550 -- 1551 -rrb- - children: a child - ended: 1553 -lrb- counter-reformation -rrb- - religion: anglican Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john ponet .
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john ponet -lrb- c. 1514 -- august 1556 -rrb- , sometimes spelled john poynet , was an english protestant churchman and controversial writer , the bishop of winchester and marian exile .he is now best known as a resistance theorist who made a sustained attack on the divine right of kings .