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John Rogers’ birth date is uncertain, but was probably about 1500.[1] His parents were John Rogers and Margaret Wyatt.[2][3] He was born near Birmingham[1] at Deritend in the parish of Aston, Warwickshire.[2]
John Rogers studied at Pembroke Hall (now Pembroke College), Cambridge[1], gaining a BA degree in 1525/1526.[4]
From 1532 to 1534 John Rogers was Rector of Holy Trinity the Less, London. He resigned in 1534, and became chaplain to English merchants in Antwerp.[1][4]
In Antwerp he became a close associate of William Tyndale. When Tyndale was arrested in 1535, with his property being confiscated, John Rogers managed somehow to safeguard the manuscript of his translation of large parts of the Old Testament. He put this together with his own revision of Myles Coverdale's translation of the rest of the Old Testament and with the 1534 revised version of the Tyndale translation of the New Testament. The resulting complete Bible was printed in Antwerp in 1537. Because Tyndale was regarded as a heretic, his name could not be safely associated with it, so it was issued under the names of Thomas and Matthew, two of Jesus's disciples, and came to be known as "Matthew's Bible", which was approved for use in English churches in 1537. It was further revised by Coverdale, and became the "Great Bible" which was ordered to be placed in every church in England.[1]
John Rogers married Adriana de Weyden of Brabant[5], also known as Adriana Pratt,[3][6] in 1536 or 1537.[1][5] (Her last name at birth was de Weyden, and Weyden in Dutch meant 'meadow'; Pratt was an anglicisation as it could also mean 'meadow'.) According to John Foxe, shortly before his execution in 1555, John Rogers said he had been married eighteen years.[7]
The Visitations of Warwickshire in Harleian MS 1563[8] and the 1634 Visitation of Middlesex list eleven children. In the order given in the Warwickshire Visitations (which is probably not their birth order[9]), they are:
In 1540 John Rogers moved to Wittenberg, Germany, where he made the close acquaintance of leading Lutherans, including Philip Melanchthon. In later years he translated several works of Melanchthon. He became one of the superintendents of a church in NW Germany and then, in late 1543, pastor of the Lutheran church at Meldorf, Germany. In a letter of 1547, written from Meldorf, he advocated confining the death penalty to cases of murder.[1]
The accession of Edward VI opened up the possibility of John Rogers returning to England, and he was back in London by August 1548. In October 1548 he was appointed Rector of St Matthew's, Friday Street, London.[1] Further church appointments followed:
In 1552 his wife and the children who were born in Germany were naturalised.[1]
Following the accession of Mary I, he was ordered to stay confined to his house as a "seditious preacher". He was deprived of the Prebend of St Pancras, and of the income from his living at St Sepulchre.[1]
Although he had opportunities to flee to continental Europe, he did not take advantage of them. After five months of house arrest, he was sent to Newgate. After the re-enactment of laws allowing the execution of heretics, he was tried as a heretic in January 1555, and condemned on 29 January 1555. He asked to be allowed to speak to his wife but this request was denied.[1] He was burnt at the stake at Smithfield, London on 4 February 1555, becoming the first of the Protestant martyrs of the reign of Mary I.[1][4] His wife and all his children were present at his execution.[1] Henry Machyn’s diary states that there was a ”grett compene [company] of the gard” at his execution.[14]
His wife and his oldest son Daniel retrieved letters and papers from his prison cell after his death.[15]
There is a memorial to John Rogers at the Marian Martyrs' Monument, London.[16]
John Foxe's near-contemporary account of John Rogers' martyrdom says that John and Adriana had eleven children: "ten able to go [i.e. to walk], and one sucking on her breast".[17] This accords with the number of children listed in the Warwickshire and Middlesex Visitations. But John Rogers himself said shortly before his execution, "nowe haue I bene a full yere in Newgate, at great costes and charges, hauyng a wyfe and x children".[18] Joseph Lemuel Chester gives a possible explanation of this discrepancy: John Rogers mentions the pregnancy of his wife in about Christmas 1553; John was moved to Newgate on 27 January 1554; and he may well have been cut off from news of his family while there (he complained about being kept in isolation and refused family visits[18][19]): so the first time he may have known for certain that his wife had given birth while he was in prison may have been when his family saw him on his way to his execution.[17]
Besides the children listed above, three other children with Wikitree profiles are sometimes, wrongly, ascribed to John Rogers:
Joseph Lemuel Chester in his book on John Rogers says that eight of his children were born in Germany.[5]
Rogers-9689 was created by David McKnight through the import of Beadle-McKnight_2014-06-21a.ged on Jun 24, 2014.
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His BIRTH DATE is recorded as 04 Feb 1507 at Deritend, Warwickshire, England. I have READ about him in the following Publications "" (1)Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22; (2)Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe(495 to1932)-Bound with Suppelement; (3)History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to ye olde colonie; (4)John Rogers, compiler of the first authorised English Bible, the pioneer of the English Reformation, and its first martyr.; (5)Lineage of the Rogers Family, England; embracing John Rogers the martyr, emigrant descendants to America and issue; PERHAPS these documentattions may help clarify the facts.
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A disproven existence notice for Thomas Matthew Rogers has been given in this g2g thread. Thomas Matthew Rogers is currently shown as a son of Bernard Rogers and grandson of John Rogers the Martyr. It is suspected that Thomas Matthew Rogers is part of an early twentieth century genealogical fraud, invented to provide a connection to the Martyr. If anyone knows of a reliable source for the existence of Thomas Matthew Rogers, or otherwise wishes to contribute to the discussion, please respond on g2g.
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