Jacob Spillebout (d. 1559)

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Jacob Spillebout (Spilboot or Spillebont), an Anabaptist martyr, was burned at the stake on 7 August 1559 at Ghent, Belgium, together with five other martyrs. He was a native of Nukerke (Nijpkerke) in Flanders and a serge weaver. His name is found in the song "Ick moet een liet beginnen" (I must begin a song), No. 14 in the Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren.

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Dit Boec wort genoemt: Het Offer des Herren, om het inhout van sommighe opgheofferde kinderen Godts . . . N.p., 1570: 348, 556;

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, 246.

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: 620. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.

Verheyden, A. L. E. Het Gentsche Martyrologium (1530-1595). Brugge: De Tempel, 1946: 25, No. 65.

Wolkan, Rudolf. Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer. Berlin, 1903. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. De Graaf, 1965: 62, 71.


Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1957

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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Jacob Spillebout (d. 1559)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 25 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jacob_Spillebout_(d._1559)&oldid=129373.

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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Jacob Spillebout (d. 1559). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jacob_Spillebout_(d._1559)&oldid=129373.



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