John Ponet is best known as a resistance theorist who made a sustained attack on the divine right of kings.
12 Facts About John Ponet
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John Ponet graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1533, was elected a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge in the same year: and became a Master of Arts in 1535.
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Smith and Cheke were proponents of mathematics, and John Ponet was one of their numerous followers.
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John Stow claimed that during Wyatt's rebellion in early 1554, Ponet participated in the uprising.
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John Ponet is known to have been in Strasbourg after the rebellion's defeat with his wife.
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John Ponet rejected outright the idea that the King was ordained by God to rule his Church on Earth.
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John Ponet's major work was A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power, in which he put forward a theory of justified opposition to secular rulers.
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John Ponet had used the library of Peter Martyr Vermigli, a less radical resistance theorist.
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The Treatise was a seminal volume that later political philosophers such as John Ponet Locke expanded on, and influenced John Ponet Adams.
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John Ponet held responsible, as supporters of John Dudley, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, and Richard Southwell.
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In 1549 John Ponet dedicated a work defending clerical marriage to the Duke of Somerset.
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In 1549, John Ponet published A Trageodie, or, Dialogue of the Unjust Usurper Primacy of the Bishop of Rome, a translation of a work by Bernardino Ochino.