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[[File:mm-bk2-p271.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Drowning of Leonard Pluvier, Jannetje, and Marietje van Aken, Antwerp, 1560.<br />
Engraving by Jan Luiken in [[Martyrs' Mirror]], v. 2, p. 271 of Dutch edition.<br />
Source: [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-44.284 Rijksmuseum].'']]
Janneken van Aken (<em>Jenneken Eghels</em>), an [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] martyr, drowned in a wine-cask, 3 April 1560 inside the [[Steen (Antwerp, Belgium)|Steen castle]] (prison) at [[Antwerp (Belgium)|Antwerp]], [[Belgium|Belgium]], together with [[Lenaert Plovier (d. 1560)|Lenaert Plovier]] and [[Maeyken de Hont (d. 1560)|Mayken de Hont]]. Particulars about this martyr are lacking. We only know that she was born at Haerlebeke near [[Kortrijk (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)|Kortrijk]] in [[Flanders (Belgium)|Flanders]]. Her name is celebrated in the hymn "Aenhoort Godt, hemelsche Vader" in the [[Lietboecxken, tracterende van den Offer des Heeren, Een|<em>Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren</em>]]; she may be the author of the song "Verhuecht verblijt groot ende cleijn" of this <em>Lietboecxken</em>.
= Bibliography =
''Dit Boec wort genoemt: Het Offer des Heeren, om het inhout van sommighe opgheofferde kinderen Godts . . .'' N.p., 1578: 552 f., 567. Available in full electronic text at: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_off001offe01_01/

Braght, Thieleman J. van. ''Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doopsgesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk''. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1685: Part II, 270.

Braght, Thieleman J. van. ''The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660.'' Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 641. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.

Génard, Petrus. ''Antwerpsch archievenblad.'' Antwerpen, Belgium: Stadsarchief te Antwerpen: IX, 7, 12; XIV, 28 f., No. 316.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 389.

Plaisier, J. A. en M. Akkermans, samenstelling en redactie. ''Antwerpens martyrologium: Overzicht van de meeste martelaren in Antwerpen die om hun geloof geëxecuteerd zijn 1522-1585''. Middelburg: Stichting de Gehonbron, 2008: 21. Available in full electronic text at: http://www.theologienet.nl/documenten/Antwerpen%20Martyrol%201522-1585.pdf
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