Jean de Leyde

Hans Bockhold, known as Jean de Leyde , of the name of her birthplace, was chief of the Anabaptiste S of Münster (Westphalia) (Leyde 1509 - Munster 1536)

Master of the town of Münster (1534), it issued there the community of the goods and the Polygamie.

When Munster was taken again by its bishop, Jean perishes in tortures.

Source

Encylopedic Larousse colors, France Leisures 1978.

External references

  • baptism on a site of the the Moselle

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