Elizabeth Barton

Henry turned against her when he wanted to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and sought to seize control of the Church of England from Rome. During that year Elizabeth Barton suffered from a severe unknown illness and claimed to have received divine revelations. These either predicted future events (such as the death of a child living in her household) or more frequently took the form of pleas for people to remain in the Roman Catholic Church.

Sr. She was executed as a result of her prophecies against the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth Barton (known as the Nun of Kent the Holy Maid of London the Holy Maid of Kent and later the Mad Maid of Kent; 1506? – 20 April 1534) was an English Catholic nun.