Clara Joostendochter (d. 1539)
Clara Joostendochter, an unmarried woman, was taken prisoner 24 May 1539 in the house of Lambrecht Duppijn at Haarlem, Dutch province of North Holland, where a meeting was held. After a cross-examination on the rack she was drowned on 3 June 1539 at Haarlem. Likely she was a follower of David Joris.
Bibliography
Bijdragen en mededelingen van het Historisch Genootschap, Utrecht 41 (1920): 199-201, 208, 209, 211, 218.
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