Neelken Clercx (d. 1535)
Neelken (Cornelia) Clercx, the wife of Henrick de Timmerman, an Anabaptist martyr, was executed 16 March 1535 at Antwerp, Belgium, by being tied into a sack and drowned. She was charged with the crime of having been rebaptized..
Bibliography
Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad: VII, 319, 367; XIV, 14 f., No. 140.
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