Jan van den Velde (d. 1539)
Jan van den Velde, an Anabaptist martyr, beheaded on 11 June 1539 at Utrecht in the Netherlands, because he had been rebaptized. He was a native of Antwerp, Belgium, and a painter by profession. Further information was not available.
Bibliography
Berigten van het Historisch Genootschap te Utrecht IV, 2 (Utrecht, 1851): 139.
Mellink, Albert F. De Wederdopers in de noordelijke Nederlanden 1531-1544. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954: 237.
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