Joris Cooman (Goris Koopman) (merchant), Wouter van der Weyden, Grietgen (Margriete van den Berghe), Naentgen Bornaige and Catherine, who had fled from Lier in Brabant, were burned at the stake.
9 July 1551
Hans van Overdam of Ghent and Hansken Keeskooper (Jannijn Buefkijn) from Antwerp were executed. Reportedly, Hans preached to the crowd as Hansken took off his stockings to delay the proceedings.
21 July 1551
Gillis de Gusseme and Elizabeth Piersins were burned at the stake in the early afternoon.
1557
Soetken van den Houte was baptized into the local Anabaptist fellowship.
1560
27 June 1560
Anabaptists Tanneken Gressy & Mynkin Souucs were executed secretly, in order to avoid making them into high-profile martyrs.
July 1560
Four Anabaptist women - Soetken van den Houte, Lijnken Claeys, Lijnken Pieters & Martha Baert - were arrested on suspicion of heresy. On 31 July they were interrogated in the city prison by inquisitor Pieter Titelmans. Among other things, the women proclaimed that: (1) the Catholic church is the whore of Babylon; (2) the pope is an Antichrist; (3) infant baptism is valueless; and (4) praying to Mary and the saints is worthless. Titelmans finally declared them excommunicated and handed them over to the civil authorities.
14 August 1560
Two representatives of the Dominican order visited the 4 Anabaptist women in the city prison and attempted to persuade them of their "mistakes and errors", without success.
22 August 1560
Two representatives of the Carmelite order were unsuccessful in converting the 4 imprisoned Anabaptist women. But they reported that Lijnken Pieters & Martha Baert seemed to be weakening in their resolve.
24 August 1560
Two Augustinian brothers tried to rescue the souls of the 4 Anabaptist women in city jail, but the women remained unmoved. A few days later Lijnken Pieters & Martha Baert were moved to separate cells in the castle (Gravensteen) in the hope of breaking them down.
31 August 1560
Two representatives of the Franciscans tried to convince the 4 imprisoned Anabaptist women of their error, without success.
7 September 1560
A delegation of city officials and a parish pastor made an attempt at getting the 4 Anabaptist women to recant. At this point Lijnken Pieters began to cry and said she was willing to repudiate her views.
9 September 1560
Lijnken Pieters, who 2 days earlier expressed willingness to recant, changed her mind again and stood firm behind her Anabaptist beliefs.
18 November 1560
Another delegation of city officials made a final attempt to change the minds of the 4 Anabaptist women, who remained more determined than ever to face death rather than recant.
20 November 1560
Soetken van den Houte, Lijnken Pieters & Martha Baert were beheaded inside the castle. Their corpses were thrown into a ditch outside the Muidepoort, one of the city gates. For some reason Lijnken Claeys was not executed with her friends. Her execution took place 9 months later. (See August 1561 below.)
1561
14 August 1561
Lijnken Claeys and another Anabaptist woman, Tanneken Delmeere, were beheaded inside the castle.