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1469 – 1535John Fisher (1469-1535)Died 22 June 1535, aged 65John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal, was executed on Tower Hill for refusing to accept Henry VIII's claim to supremacy over the Church of England. He had been a prominent opponent of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Pope Paul III had made him a cardinal shortly before his death, a move that further angered Henry VIII.