# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-laud
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:25.645Z

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description: "Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I, arrested by Parliament in 1640 and beheaded five years later — not for treason in the usual sense, but for insisting the English pray a certain way. His name became shorthand for the ceremonial rigidity that split a kingdom."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  William Laud was born in October 1573 and rose through the Church of England as a bishop before Charles I made him Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633. He believed in rule by bishops and drove a reform movement — "Laudianism" — that enforced liturgical ceremony, clerical hierarchy, and uniformity across the church, foreshadowing what would later be called high church practice. Puritans accused him of Arminianism, of covert sympathy for Rome, of standing against Calvinism; they saw him as a threat. When he used the Star Chamber to crush dissenters like William Prynne, he became deeply unpopular. Parliament arrested him in 1640. He was executed in January 1645, near the end of the First English Civil War.