John Wycliffe dies a free man
December 1384
The Oxford theologian, retired to his rectory at Lutterworth, suffered a fatal stroke during mass on the last day of the year. Despite condemnations from Rome, English authorities had never prosecuted him in person. Thirty-one years later the Council of Constance would order his bones dug up and burned and his ashes scattered in the river Swift.
In context
Also in 1384 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in Europe
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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