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Adrian Hamsted (also known asAdriaen van Haemstede)[1]was the eponymous Dutch founder of the sect ofAdrianists.
Hamsted was born atDordrecht in 1524. He was a minister in London atthe Dutch Church in Austin Friars for some time.[1][2] After theAct of Uniformity 1558 forced theAnabaptists to meet in secret, Hamsted submitted a petition on their behalf to the bishop,Edmund Grindal. Grindal not only refused the petition on their behalf, he demanded that Hamsted renounce his Anabaptist beliefs, and, when he refused, excommunicated him in 1561.[1]Jacopo Aconcio, a member of Hamsted's church, defended him to Grindal, who excommunicated Aconcio as well.[1]
Afterwards, Hamsted travelled to Holland, where he founded the Adrianist sect;[2] he died atBruges in 1581.
The Adrianists, who were mostly women, wereAnabaptists. Most of their specific beliefs are not recorded, but one is that they denied thevirgin birth of Jesus.[2]
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