View source for Lynken Pieters (ca. 1535-1560)

Lynken Pieters<strong> </strong><em>(Lynken van Heercke), </em>an [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]], was secretly beheaded on 20 November 1560 inside the [[Gravensteen, Het (Ghent, Belgium)|Gravensteen castle]] at [[Ghent (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium)|Ghent]], [[Belgium|Belgium]], together with Soetken van den Houtte and [[Martha Baerts (d. 1560)|Martha Baets]]. After the execution their corpses were thrown into a pit outside the Muide Gate. Soetken and Martha are named by [[Braght, Tieleman Jansz van (1625-1664)|van Braght]], <em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|Martyrs' Mirror]], </em>but Lynken is not. Lynken was a daughter of Pieter Cornelis; she was born at Hamme near Dendermonde in Flanders, was unmarried and 25 years of age.


= Bibliography =
Verheyden, A. L. E. <em>Het Gentsche Martyrologium (1530-1595)</em>. Brugge: De Tempel, 1946: 27, No. <em class="gameo_bibliography">77.</em>


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