Jan Claesz (d. 1539)
Jan Claesz, a cloth shearer of Gouda, Dutch province of South Holland (not of Grouw, Friesland), an otherwise unknown Anabaptist martyr, was beheaded at Leeuwarden, capital of Friesland, together with four others, on 8 February 1539, charged with (re) baptism and "contempt of the holy sacrament and the institutions of the Holy Church."
Bibliography
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, 746.
Pasma, F. H. De Doopsgezinden te Grouw. Grouw, 1930: 5, note 1.
| Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1957 |
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