Anne Hooper

Anne Hooper or Anne de Tscerlas (died 7 December 1555) was a Flemish Protestant activist. She became one of the first wives of an English bishop when her husband became the Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. She corresponded with other activists and died of the plague in the same year as her husband, John Hooper became a Protestant martyr.

Biography Hooper was born in the Flemish Region and she and her sister, not her parents or brother, became Protestants.

In 1548, her daughter was born and the Swiss reformer Henry Bullinger was there as godparent at her baptism. In 1549, Anne had written to her family in Antwerp. By this time her father had died and her brother took the unopened letter from his mother and burnt it. The same year they returned to England.

Her husband was burnt to death on 9 February 1555 for his beliefs. Anne wrote her last extant letter to Bullinger asking him to publish one of her husbands writings. Hooper and her daughter, Rachel, died in Frankfurt in 1555 of the plague.