"When Henry tried to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter. As such, he appeared on the Queen's behalf in the legates' court, where he startled the audience by the directness of his language and by declaring that, like St. John the Baptist, he was ready to die on behalf of the indissolubility of marriage."
From the Wikipedia entry, which cites primary sources.
According to some sources, Bishop Fisher was also Catherine's confessor.
Image: John Fisher by Gerard Valck after van der Weirff (1697)
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