Geertruid Adriaansdochter
Geertruid Adriaansdochter (?? in Wormer – 1573 in near Amsterdam), was a Dutch farmer. She was hanged by Protestant farmers as a Catholic when she attempted to bring food to her brother, a Catholic priest in Amsterdam, who was at the point under siege by the Protestants. She was used in the propaganda during the war as a Catholic martyr.
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- http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/Adriaansdr
- Maarten Hell, Adriaansdr., Geertruid, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Adriaansdr [13/01/2014]
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- 1573 deaths
- Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War
- Executed Dutch women
- Lynching deaths
- Victims of anti-Catholic violence
- Catholic martyrs
- People from Wormerland
- Executed Dutch people
- 16th-century executions
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