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Claes van Leeuwe (Leeuwen) was a rector of the Latin school at [[Zutphen (Gelderland, Netherlands)|Zutphen]], Dutch province of [[Gelderland (Netherlands)|Gelderland]], where he died in 1549. When it became known that he had been a Mennonite, having been baptized upon his faith, his corpse was exhumed and buried in unconsecrated earth. His wife [[Cornelia (d. 1549)|Cornelia]] died as a martyr.
= Bibliography =
<em class="gameo_bibliography">Doopsgezinde Bijdragen</em> (1881):42, note 1.
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