11 Facts About John Philpot

John Philpot was an Archdeacon of Winchester and an English Protestant martyr.

John Philpot was the third son of Sir Peter Philpot and Agnes Troyes.

John Philpot had seven brothers, William, Thomas, Edward, Henry, Richard, Anthony and Francis, and three sisters, Jane, Anne and Elizabeth.

John Philpot died in 1586 and was the only son of Sir Peter to have male heirs.

John Philpot was educated at Winchester College, where he had as a contemporary John Harpsfield, with whom he made a bet that he would write two hundred verses in one night without making more than three faults, which he did.

John Philpot certainly visited Rome where he assisted John Christopherson, who, later, as bishop of Chichester, was one of Philpot's interrogators at his trial Between Venice and Padua he fell into an argument with a Franciscan friar, and very narrowly escaped the inquisition in consequence.

John Philpot left an account of the Disputationis that took place at the Convocation.

John Philpot's Disputationis were published within the next two years for they were known to his interrogators at his trial in late 1555.

John Philpot remained in prison for the remaining two years of his life.

John Philpot asks her to ensure through their brother Thomas that the sureties that stood in for him in 1552 when he entered into an agreement to pay the First Fruits tax would be fully recompensed.

John Philpot was held and examined in bishop Edmund Bonner's coal house for an extensive period of time.