Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Lollard? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The Lollard name is of unknown origin and meaning, but signified a return to a simpler creed.
That friendship, and the prince's political opposition to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, perhaps encouraged Lollard hopes.
The lady in charge of his upbringing was Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, whose ancestors had residual Lollard connections.
Religiously, he was orthodox, and particularly towards the end of his reign he became a strong opponent of the Lollard heresy.
England had already given rise to the Lollard movement of John Wycliffe, which played an important part in inspiring the Hussites in Bohemia.
The marriage of Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia established contacts between the two nations and brought Lollard ideas to her homeland.
Examples from Classical Literature
In popular use the words Lollard and Beghard were virtually convertible, and yet there is a difference between them.
Walter, known as the Lollard, was a Hollander, and was the most active and successful of the Beghard missionaries.
Its hero is John Badby, the Lollard blacksmith, who perished at the stake.
He is not a Lollard, simply because he never knew what Lollardism was.
He can only conclude that a person so extraordinary must be a Lollard.
Alan Wells, 33, of Lollard Croft, Cheylesmore, Coventry, admitted willfully obstructing a highway.
It cheerfully revived the old acts for the burning of Lollard heretics.
Le Despenser was a Lollard house by tradition and inheritance.
And that she was a Lollard few can doubt who read her will with attention.
And she soon found that the lot of a Lollard was no bed of roses.
A more sustained discussion of the implications of the text's manuscript context, as well as its Wycliffite or Lollard associations, would have been welcome.
A High Sheriff of Herefordshire, he was a Lollard, who was executed for his beliefs and for allegedly plotting against the King, and was regarded by some as a martyr.
