Vilvoorde
Vilvoorde, BelgiumWestern EuropeAlso: Vilvorde, Filford
Town north of Brussels in whose castle William Tyndale was held, and where he was strangled and burned in 1536.
Vilvoorde lies a few miles north of Brussels. John Foxe, who spells the name Filford, tells that William Tyndale was held in its castle for a year and a half and was strangled and burned at the town in 1536 (Foxe, Acts and Monuments vol. 5, pp. 123 and 127 (Cattley)). See Tyndale’s English New Testament.
What happened here
- 1526, firm dateTyndale’s English New Testament
William Tyndale, unable to work in England, has his English New Testament printed at Worms in 1526. The bishop of London bans it and Thomas More writes against it. Tyndale is strangled and burned at Vilvoorde in 1536.