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HISTORICAL PERSONS WITH THE NAME OF "POOT"

The following Poots were initially selected as examples of interesting or
historically significant persons who may or may not be relatives of J.W.
Poot. Later, it was nice to discover that some were direct ancestors.
There have been many Poots who were ministers, and even more who held
important church offices. Some of the ministers were left out of the
following historical and contemporary lists to offer a greater variety of
persons. If I have located the person in the family tree at www.jrPoot.eu,
their ancestry reference number is shown in brackets. Lack of a number
does not rule out a family relationship because I have not yet thoroughly
checked all of these persons.

Gerrit Hase-Poot
1550's Inquisition in the Netherlands (Martyrology p93)

This is one of the earliest references that I have found to the name of
Poot. Gerrit Hase-Poot was of the Baptist faith and lived in Nymegen. I
do not know if he is related, but I have heard that some Poot relatives may
have lived in Nymegen (Nijmegen). During the Reformation, one of the
Protestant faiths to develop in the Netherlands was Baptist. The King of
Spain and the Pope revived the Inquisition in the Netherlands to suppress
the spread of non-Catholic beliefs. Gerrit fled the Inquisition, but
returned to retrieve his wife and children. He was seen, captured, and
sentenced to burn at the stake. When offered a customary glass of wine
before his execution, Gerrit refused it and said, "I desire not this wine, but
hope to drink new wine, and to receive it above in my Father's house."

When taken from the wagon to the scaffold, he raised his voice to sing a
hymn. He then fell to his feet and made a prayer, then removed the
slippers from his feet, saying, "It were a pity to burn these, for they may
be of service to some poor person!" Upon the scaffold, the strangulation
strap had come loose and he was able to complete singing the hymn he
started earlier. The executioner then tightened the cord so Gerrit became
unconscious as the flames consumed him.

Pieter Pietersz Poot [136]
1577 - 28 Dec 1640

He was the son of Pieter Pietersz Poot (1550 - 1580) and a direct ancestor
of J.W and W.F. Poot. He was born in 1577 in the Vlaardinger-ambacht
district around Kethel. His mother Lijsbeth Huybrechtdr was born in
Kethel in 1555 and died there in May 1622. He was a "bouwman" (which
can mean a builder, architect, or farmer) in Spaland (now part of Kethel) in

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