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Last time we saw the prophet, Jan Matthias, exit the narrative rather dramatically.

Having seen his plan to lift the siege of Munster fail, Jan Matthias declared that God had instructed

him to ride out of Munster and face the besiegers. Then, in a David and Goliath type situation,

he would defeat the Bishop Prince's army. Jan Matthias and 12 guards rode out and were promptly killed.

With a prophet now dead and his head mounted on a post outside the city walls,

Jan von Leiden slipped neatly into the role of the new leader of the Anabaptists of Munster.

At the end of the last episode, we saw him declare to the people of Munster that he had been

granted a vision by God who informed him that Jan Matthias would die and that he, Jan von Leiden, should marry Jan

Matthias's beautiful widow, De Vara, and assume leadership of the city of Munster.

Now, the revelation that God had ordered Jan von Leiden to marry the prophet's widow is an interesting one,

because, according to Anthony Arthur in his book, The Taylor King,

Jan von Leiden currently had not one, but two wives.

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