Background
Nicholis was born in 1501 or 1502 at Münster, where he was married and was a prosperous merchant.
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As a boy he was subject to visions, and at the age of twenty-seven charges of heresy led to his imprisonment. About 1530 he moved with his family to Amsterdam, where he was again imprisoned on a charge of complicity in the Münster Rebellion of 1534-1535. In 1540 he moved to Emden, where he prospered in business for twenty years, though he traveled to the Netherlands, England and elsewhere with commercial and missionary objectives.
The date of his sojourn in England has been placed as early as 1552 and as late as 1569.
His doctrines seem to have been derived largely from the Dutch Anabaptist David Joris. The date of his death is unknown.
In 1579 he was living at Cologne, and it is likely that he died there a year or two later.
