1. Margaret Roper was an English writer and translator.
19 Facts About Margaret Roper
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Margaret Roper is celebrated for her filial piety and scholarly accomplishments.
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Margaret Roper's most known publication is a Latin-to-English translation of Erasmus' Precatio Dominica as A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster.
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Margaret Roper translated the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius from the Greek into the Latin language.
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Margaret Roper More was the eldest child of Sir Thomas More and Joanna "Jane" Colt.
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Margaret Roper was most likely baptized at St Stephen's Church, across the street from the Mores' family home.
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Margaret Roper spent most of her childhood at the Barge at Bucklersbury.
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Margaret Roper gave early indications of extraordinary intellectual abilities, deep devotion to God, and is cited as having "the most amiable and affectionate disposition".
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Margaret Roper was proficient in Greek and Latin, prose and verse, philosophy and history, and had a thorough knowledge of music, arithmetic, and some other sciences.
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William Margaret Roper produced the first biography of the statesman, but his homage to his father-in-law is not remembered as well as his wife's efforts.
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Margaret Roper was the first non-royal woman to be noted for the publication of a translation.
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In 1524, Margaret Roper completed a translation of Erasmus' thoughts on the Lord's Prayer.
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Margaret Roper visited More often during his imprisonment in the Tower of London.
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Thomas Cromwell allowed the visitations in hopes that Margaret Roper would persuade More to accept the Acts of Supremacy to avoid execution.
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Margaret Roper is credited with putting together a dossier of the letters written by More during his time in the tower.
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Margaret Roper bribed the man whose business it was to throw the head into the river to give it to her instead.
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Margaret Roper preserved it by pickling it in spices until her own death at the age of 39 in 1544.
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Margaret Roper took steps to clear her father's name posthumously by hiring More's old secretary John Harris to collect and recreate his writings to prove that there was no evidence of treason found within them.
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Margaret Roper died in 1544 and was buried in Chelsea Parish Church, with the head being taken by William Margaret Roper who survived her by thirty-three years, never remarried and honored her memory by living a life devoted to learning, beneficence, and piety.