Trijn Jacobs (d. 1555)
Trijn Jacobs, an Anabaptist martyr, a widow from Balk in Friesland, was drowned on 22 November 1555, at Leeuwarden, Netherlands, because she "had a low estimation of the sacred sacraments."
Bibliography
Reitsma, J. Honderd jaren uit de Geschiedenis der Hervorming . . . in Friesland. Leeuwarden, 1876: 63.
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