Character

Joan Boughton

defiant devout resolute

Deceased Lollard martyr whose remains are the object of the Lollard Dissenters Collective's ritualistic devotion; serves as a symbolic focal point for the dissenters' defiance and devotion.

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Lollard dissent

Joan Boughton's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

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S1E3 · Wolf Hall Episode 3

The Mark of the Heretic: A Child’s Baptism in Defiance

Agonized in death, but her memory is one of fierce defiance and quiet triumph—her ashes become a relic of resistance, not defeat.

Joan Boughton, the Lollard heretic, is reduced to a blackened, toothless corpse chained to the stake, her agonized scream frozen in the smoke. Though physically absent during the dissenters’ ritual, …

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Affiliation

Reformist Faction (Associated with William Tyndale)

Religious Reform and Heretical Networks