Bekenntniss Johanns von Leiden (Dülmen, 25 July 1535)
Examiners’ record of Jan van Leiden’s confession
The examiners’ Low German record of the confession of Jan van Leiden, king of Münster, taken at Dülmen on 25 July 1535.
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Edition and location
Carl Adolf Cornelius (ed.), Berichte der Augenzeugen über das Münsterische Wiedertäuferreich (Die Geschichtsquellen des Bisthums Münster, 2; Münster: Theissing, 1853), Internet Archive berichtederaugen00corn. Actenstücke no. LXXI, “Bekenntniss Johanns von Leiden”, Dülmen, 25 July 1535, p. 373 (leaves n470, n474), from “Und oich van einem brif” to “in den geist gemeint hedde.” The excerpt begins within a sentence: the confession says he knows of no understanding with princes or towns except through Henricus Graess, and also of a letter; the omitted opening is marked […]. The confession is recorded in the third person by the examiners. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such. Low German (Westphalian) text as printed by Cornelius. German-style low and high quotation marks as printed. Spacing normalized; line-end hyphenation joined. Transcribed from the page images.
Cornelius, Actenstücke LXXI, p. 373