Johan van Essen (d. 1542)
Johan van Essen was an Anabaptist of Maastricht, Dutch province of Limburg, who is said to have been handed over by the city magistrates to the Supreme Court in 1542 and executed for the fact that he had been rebaptized.
Bibliography
Bax, Willem. Het protestantisme in het bisdom Luik en vooral te Maastricht. s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1937-1941: I, 224.
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