Jan Dirck Volbrechtsz (d.1544)
Jan Dirck Volbrechtsz of Leiden, an Anabaptist martyr, was beheaded at The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 August 1544. He had been baptized in 1534 at Leiden by Cornelis Pietersz wt den Briel. He is supposed to have been an adherent of the revolutionary Anabaptist leader Jan van Batenburg.
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Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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Date Published | 1957 |
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