#anne was killed specifically because her husband felt she was reproductively useful anymore and wanted to marry someone else

[navree]

you can call anne boleyn many things, good and bad alike. a protestant martyr, however, is not one of those fucking things

#personal #like a martyr in the context of christianity is a very specific thing #a martyr is someone who is killed (oftentimes by the state) for their religious beliefs #and that sure as shit isn't anne boleyn #because anne wasn't killed for her religious beliefs at all! #anne was killed specifically because her husband felt she was reproductively useful anymore and wanted to marry someone else #her religion had fuck all to do with it #which we know because the charges henry lobbed at her had nothing to do with religion it was all about adultery and incest #because he just wanted her out of the way because he was a misogynistic ass #was anne a protestant? absolutely! was she a martyr? no fucking way! #if you want an example of a martyr from that time period thomas more is the closest thing #as he was very explicitly killed for being a catholic and thus refusing to bow to henry's supremacy as head of the church #if you want a protestant martyr then look at thomas cranmer when mary burned him #which she did very specifically because he was a protestant (and also she kinda hated him personally because of the great matter) #(but mostly for being a protestant) #like anne's murder didn't have anything to do with religion at all #and i'm tired enough that i've decided to get mad about it