Willem van Ackere (d. 1551)
Willem van Ackere (Guillaume de Camp), an Anabaptist martyr, a native of Kortrijk in Flanders, baptized by Gillis van Aken, was burned at the stake at Merelbeke near Ghent, Belgium, on 11 July 1551.
Bibliography
Verheyden, A. L. E. Het Gentsche Martyrologium (1530-1595). Brugge: De Tempel, 1946: 15 f. No. 29.
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