# Claudine Le Vettre, And With Her A Brother, A. D. 1568. · Page 2 of 2

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It is understood that the child which was taken
from her in prison was from that time on seen no
more, without the father and the friends ever knowing
what became of it.

Piersom had formerly lived with his wife Claudine,
in Bruges, where the same thing had happened to
him, namely, that he with his wife escaped from
the inquisitor, through the friendly warning of a
councillor of the city. However he had to leave behind
everything he had, as was also the case at
Meenen. But the pious man of Meenen who had
warned him, concealed Piersom’s books and part of
his household goods, and saw that they were again
taken to the place where the books belonged. But
the bad neighbor, who had betrayed Claudine, fell
into such detestation with the town’s people that he
had to leave the place, after the rabble of the town
had demolished and ruined his shop, calling after
him, Judas! Judas, the traitor!

Meenen was at that time an open city, without
walls and gates, and hence Titelmannus did not dare
trust his prisoners there: it would have gone with
them as it did in another small town of Flanders,
where on a set day the peasants came in great numbers,
broke open the prison, and liberated about
four hundred persons who had been imprisoned for
the same cause.

708

The friends had Piersom’s children baptized by
the pastor of Meenen, as Margriete, the oldest of
the children, who subsequently died, at the age of
sixteen, in Calais, was wont to relate.

The remainder were three sons, named Pieter,
Nicolaes and Jan, the last mentioned being the infant
which was nourished at the mother’s breasts in
prison. Pieter died during his mother’s imprisonment.

Piersom subsequently married a woman by the
name of Peronne Hennebo, who died at Leyden,
A. D. 1589, leaving two daughters, Maria and
Martha, both born at Hoorn. This Martha was the
wife of Doctor Dirk Volkertsz Velius, who wrote
the Chronicles of Hoorn, and the mother of Pieter
Velius of Hoorn.

Piersom’s third wife was Habeau de la Motte,
mother of Margriete des Muliers, who resided at
Gonda.

Piersom fell asleep in the Lord in Leyden, in
the year 1591, leaving a son by his first wife Claudine,
two daughters by his second wife Peronne,
and a daughter by his last wife, as already said.

Claudine was beautiful of person, and a good
singer, so that she moved the bystanders by her
singing. Especially on the last day of her life,
people stood before the prison, to hear her sing
with a joyful heart, when death was announced to
her. One who related it to me had heard her sing
with a clear, strong voice the 27th psalm of David:

Le Seigneur est la clarte qui m’addresse.

And the people firmly believed that if they had
not gagged her when they brought her to the place
of execution, she would have departed life singing
and praising God.

This account we received from D. N. M., the son
of Piersom and Claudine, by the help of D. D. V.,
Claudine’s brother-in-law.



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