Frans Pieters (d. 1534)
Frans Pieters of Leiden, Dutch province of South Holland, an Anabaptist martyr, was sentenced to death by fire on 11 May 1534 (executed at Amsterdam?). He had taken part in the journey to Münster in March 1534, and had been arrested at Bergklooster.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 121, No. 142.
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, I, Nos. 744, 745.
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