Warffum (Groningen, Netherlands)
Warffum, a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, where in early 1535 the cloister of the knights of St. John was attacked by a group of 70 revolutionary Anabaptists, led by Jacob Cremer. The attack, however, was repulsed and the Anabaptists put to flight by the soldiers of stadholder Karel van Gelre.
Bibliography
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica. 10 v. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914: v. VII, 369.
Kühler, Wilhelmus Johannes. Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden in de Zestiende Eeuw. Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1932: v. I, 169 ff.
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