Pieter Pietersz (d. 1536)
Pieter Pietersz (Coman Piet), of Leiden, Holland, apparently a "koopman," that is, merchant, an Anabaptist martyr, beheaded on 29 May 1536, at The Hague. He had been (re)baptized at Leiden in November 1534. He is charged with the crimes of being rebaptized, having preached in Anabaptist meetings, and having regularly received messages from Jan van Leyden, then in Münster.
Bibliography
Mellink, Albert F. De Wederdopers in de noordelijke Nederlanden 1531-1544. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954: 193 f.
Scheffer, Hoop and Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 143, 745.
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