Geertruyt Jansdochter (d. 1539)
Geertruyt Jansdochter (surnamed Kemster), a Dutch Anabaptist martyr. It is assumed that her surname means that she was a native of Kennemerland, a district of the province of North Holland, north of Haarlem. She was arrested at Haarlem on 24 May 1539, and after torture on 28 May was drowned there on 3 June 1539. She may have been a follower of David Joris. For particulars see Lambrecht Duppijns.
Bibliography
Bijdragen en mededelingen van het Historisch Genootschap Utrecht XLI (Amsterdam, 1920): 200-01, 208, 210, 211, 218.
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