Janneken op Dextelaer (d. 1557)
Janneken op Dextelaer, an Anabaptist martyr, drowned 5 or 6 July 1557 at the Steen castle at Antwerp, Belgium, together with Klaerken (Claerken Boucket) and Margriete (Margriet Vanneau). Afterwards their naked corpses were thrown into the Scheldt River. Janneken, whose name is celebrated in the song "Aenhoort Godt, hemelsche Vader" (Hear, O God, heavenly Father) of the Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren, is apparently identical with Janneken van Hout(t)e, who is found in the official records.
Bibliography
Dit Boec wort genoemt: Het Offer des Herren, om het inhout van sommighe opgheofferde kinderen Godts . . . N.p., 1578: 565.
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: II, 185.
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: 569. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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Date Published | 1957 |
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 88. All rights reserved.
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