# John Fisher is executed on 22 June 1535 as a completed capital process under supremacy law Date: 1535 ## The fact TNA calendars, Britannica, and later lives print 22 June 1535 as the beheading of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, after refusal of the supremacy oath. Shared work with judges and officers remains named. It is one event. ## Context A bishop killed for refusing a new royal headship is a minority-rights and justice neighbourhood. They are different persons and dates. [Henry VIII](/people/henry-viii)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Reign 1509–1547. Statutes are parliamentary instruments with royal assent: Cromwell, bishops, judges, and unnamed officers share the file. Later legislation.gov.uk and TNA pages are carriers, not autographs. Complex contribution is required. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and TNA independently describe Fisher’s 1535 execution. Official or archival record: Britannica — Henry VIII (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A completed capital process against a refusing bishop is a rights path. ## What is established and what is not Established: 22 June 1535 execution as calendared. Not established: private states of mind beyond the public refusal. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Henry VIII. They are not a public rating. The driver `protection-of-minority-rights` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Henry VIII did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep Fisher distinct from the Carthusian cluster, which is not stored as an extra twin here. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Henry VIII. ## People - Henry VIII: https://factrail.ai/people/henry-viii ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-fisher-1535