Pieter de Cleercq (d. 1557)
Pieter de Cleercq, an Anabaptist martyr, a miller by trade, burned at the stake on 4 March 1557, on the Vrijdagsmarkt of Gent, Belgium. He had been arrested by treachery. Particulars are lacking.
Bibliography
Verheyden, A. L. E. Het Gentsche Martyrologium (1530-1595). Brugge: De Tempel, 1946: 23, No. 29.
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