She was reported to the Spaniards by the infamous informer Aagt Jafies, and was executed by drowning.
Her case belongs to the more famous of the victims of the Spanish heresy persecutions during the Dutch war of liberation, and was used in propaganda as a Protestant martyr.
[1] Anneke Ogiers was the daughter of Jan Ogiersz and married the wealthy craftsman Adriaan Boogaert in Haarlem.
She seldom attended the Catholic mass, which was mandatory during the Spanish rule, and Aagt Jafies, who was infamous for reporting heresy to the authorities, was informed by the maidservant of Anneke Ogiers that Ogiers read the Bible each Sunday instead of attending mass.
She was however pardoned from being burned at the stake in public, and was instead commuted to being drowned inside the city hall instead.