East Anglia, 794 Martyrs of Iona, 806 by Vikings Gohard of Nantes, 843 by Normans Roderick, Eulogius, Perfectus, Laura, Flora and Maria, Aurelius and Natalia, Nunilo and Alodia, and other Martyrs of Cordoba, 850-59 Bertharius of Monte Cassino, 883 by Saracens Edmund of East Anglia, 869 Ludmila of Bohemia, 921 Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, 935 King Edward the Martyr, 979 Adalbert of Prague, 997 by Old Prussians Bruno of Querfurt, 1009 Jovan Vladimir, 1014 Olaf II of Norway, 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad Gerard of Csanád, 1046 Stanislaus of Szczepanów, 1079 Canute IV of Denmark, 1086 William of Norwich, 1144 (cult suppressed) Eric IX of Sweden, 1161 Thomas Becket, 1170 - The most famous martyr of the Middle Ages. Berard of Carbio and companions, 1220 Serapion of Algiers, 1240 Buzád Hahót, 1241 Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history. Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260 Antonio Pavoni, 1374 by Waldensians Tsar Lazar, 1389 Nicholas Tavelic, 1391 John of Nepomuk, 1393 Jan Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic Council of Constance Reformation Era—16th century Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake Felix Manz, 1527 Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr George Blaurock, 1529 St Thomas More, 1535, executed St John Fisher, 1535 William Tyndale, 1535 Carthusian Martyrs, 1535–1537 St. Arthur of Glastonbury, 1539 Margaret Pole, 1541 Juan de Padilla, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542 Mannar Catholic martyrs (1544) Anne Askew, 1546 George Wishart, 1546 Luis de Cancer, Spanish missionary to La Florida, 1549 Lady Jane Grey, 1554 Hugh Latimer, 1555 Nicholas Ridley, 1555 Rowland Taylor, 1555 John Hooper, 1555 John Rogers, 1555 William Hunter, 1555 Lawrence Saunders, 1555 Thomas Cranmer, 1556 Dirk Willems, 1569 Martyrs of Gorkum, 1572, including Nicholas Pieck and John of Cologne St Edmund Campion, 1581 Margaret Ball, 1584 The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, various dates Modern Era—17th to 21st centuries Martyrs of Japan, 1597-1639, (see also Kakure Kirishitan'') Francis Taylor, 1621 Vietnamese Martyrs, 1625 - 1886 Magdalene of Nagasaki, 1634 Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637 Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649 Arthur Bell, O.F.M., 1643 Isaac Jogues, S.J., 1646 John de Britto, 1647–1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India Francis