Statue of François Anneessens by Thomas Vinçotte (1889)
Frans Anneessens (in Dutch)[1][2] or François Anneessens (in French) (25 February 1660 – 19 September 1719) was dean of the Nation of St. Christopher, one of the Guilds of Brussels, Belgium. He was beheaded on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square) because of his resistance to innovations in city government detrimental to the power of the guilds and for his suspected involvement with uprisings within the Austrian Netherlands.[3]
- ^ Paul F. State, 'Historical Dictionary of Brussels', Rowman & Littlefield, 16 abr 2015, p. 33
- ^ Jozef Bal Verklarend woordenboek met platen, Het Belfort. Jaargang 6 (1891), p. 164
- ^ State 2004, p. 12–13.