Leyden, John of, leader of the Anabaptists in Münster, born in The Hague; beset with his followers, who regarded him as a prophet, in Münster, he was taken alive after a siege of six months and tortured to death in 1536.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Leyden, John * Leyden, Lucas van