About Richard Risby
Lived 1489 – 1534 (aged 44–45). Richard Risby was a monk.
Richard Risby, O.F.M., (1489 - 20 April 1534) was an English Catholic Franciscan friar who was executed for treason during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Life Risby was born in the parish of St. Lawrence, Reading, in 1489, and entered Winchester College in 1500. He was subsequently a fellow of New College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1510. He resigned in 1513 to enter the Franciscan Order, and eventually became guardian of the Observant friary at Canterbury. In it he wrote that Risby and Rich had been offered their freedom twice, if they would accept the king's supremacy. Risby was executed by hanging along with the others, including Barton, at Tyburn, London, on 20 April 1534.
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Who was Richard Risby?
English Franciscan friar, executed for treason
When was Richard Risby born?
Richard Risby was born in 1489.
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Richard Risby died on 20 April 1534 in Tyburn.
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Richard Risby was a monk.
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