Ulcke Ricoltswiif (d. 1557)
Ulcke Ricoltswiif, a Dutch Anabaptist martyr, drowned on 4 February 1557, at Leeuwarden in Friesland, because "she had received rebaptism and harbored derogatory ideas concerning the sacred sacrament of the mass." Particulars are lacking.
Bibliography
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. 2 v. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, No. 746.
Reitsma, J. Honderd jaren uit de Geschiedenis der Hervorming . . . in Friesland. Leeuwarden, 1876: 63.
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