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Dutch theologian, namesake for the Mennonites (–)

Menno Simons (Dutch:[ˈmɛnoːˈsimɔns]; West Frisian: Minne Simens[ˈmɪnəˈsimə̃ːs];^[1] – 31 January ) was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader.

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Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.

Biography

Early life

Menno Simons was born in ^[2] in Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire.

Very little is known concerning his childhood and family except that he grew up in a poor peasant environment. His father's name was Simon, Simons being a patronym, and he had a brother named Pieter.^[3]

Simons grew up in a disillusioned war-torn country.

Friesland was ravaged by war in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Landsknecht soldiers haunted the Frisian lands in