Frans de Cuyper (16th century)
Frans de Cuyper (Frans Kuiper, Frans Reines) was an elder of the Dutch Anabaptists, ordained by Menno Simons in 1542, but in 1554 he recanted and returned to the Roman Catholic Church. He had preached and taught especially in the Dutch province of Friesland.
Bibliography
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica, 10 v. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914: VII, 3, 50 f., 86.
Vos, Karel. Menno Simons, 1496-1561, zijn leven en werken en zijne reformatorische denkbeelden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1914, 91 and following.
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