Jan de Bakker

Dutch priest · Religious Figures · Lived 1499 to 1525 · aged 26

Jan Jansz de Bakker van Woerden was a Roman Catholic priest who was the first priest in the Northern Netherlands to be put to death as a direct result of his beliefs.

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Gevangenpoort in The Hague where Jan de Bakker was incarcerated prior to his execution in 1525[1]

Statue of Johan de Witt at De Plaats in The Hague. His two fingers point at the place where he was lynched in 1672. This is also the place where Jan de Bakker was executed in 1525.

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