Tjede Peckes (Padingbüttel-Oberstrich, around 1500 – Wremen-Wremer Tief, 23 December 1517) was a Wurster Frisian military flag bearer who was slain in the Battle of the Wremer Djip at age 17.
Peckes was born around the year 1500 in Padingbüttel-Oberstrich as the daughter of a free farmer and became a member of a women's movement whose members saw themselves as successors to the virgines capitales, considered the four most important holy virgin martyrs of Christianity (Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, Margaret of Antioch and Dorothea of Caesarea).
[1][2][3] By the end of 1517, the people of Wurster Frisians had acquired fertile new land by building embankments to hold back the North Sea.
[2] In response, the nearby Bremen archbishop Kristof of Braunschweig-Lüneburg proposed expanding his territory to include the new lands and imposing new taxes on the properties.
The battles involved not only men, but also a group of approximately 500 girls and women who stood up against the Bremen forces.