Oede Willemsdochter (d. 1541)
Oede Willemsdochter, the wife of Pieter Aelbrechtsz, an Anabaptist martyr of Hattem, Dutch province of Overijssel, was baptized in 1534 at Bridle, South Holland, in the house of Adriaen Jansz. She belonged to the revolutionary Anabaptists. In 1541 she was arrested at Utrecht, and on the charge of lodging Anabaptists she was sentenced at Utrecht and executed there by drowning on 18 July 1541.
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