Adrian Hamsted was the eponymous Dutch founder of the sect of Adrianists. He was born at

Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...

in 1524; died at

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in 1581. We know nothing of his personal history, and very little concerning the short-lived sect to which he gave his name. The Adrianists, who were mostly women, professed in general the Protestant doctrines of the

Anabaptists Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin , from the Greek : 're-' and 'baptism', german: Täufer, earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased. ...

; but what their specific beliefs were cannot be ascertained. Charges of immorality have been named against them, but have never been proved.

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* 1524 births 1581 deaths People from Dordrecht {{christian-bio-stub