Judith van Dorth
Johanna Magdalena Catharina "Judith" van Dorth (7 May 1747, in Warnsveld – 22 November 1799, in Winterswijk), known as Freule Van Dorth (Lady of Dorth), was a Dutch orangist and aristocrat. She was executed for treason. She is the only woman in the history of the Netherlands to have been executed by a military tribunal. She is regarded to have been the victim of terrible injustice, and was used by the orangist political propaganda as a victim of the republicans.
References[]
- Gert Jan van Setten, Biography at the Online Dictionary of Dutch Women
Categories:
- 1747 births
- 1799 deaths
- 18th-century Dutch criminals
- Dutch Orangists
- Executed Dutch women
- 18th-century executions by the Netherlands
- People executed for treason against the Netherlands
- People from Warnsveld