A papal legate, sent on a mission to Muenster shortly after the events in question, relates that as he and his retinue neared the latter town "more and more gibbets and wheels did we see on the highways and in the villages, where the false prophets and Anabaptists had suffered for their sins." The Muenster incident was the culmination of the Anabaptist movement.
After the catastrophe the militant section rapidly declined.

It did not die out, however, until towards the end of the century.

The last we hear of it was in 1574, when a formidable insurrection took place again in Westphalia, under the leadership of one Wilhelmson, the son of one of the escaped Anabaptist preachers of Muenster.

The movement lasted for five years.

It was finally suppressed and Wilhelmson burned alive at Cleves on March 5, 1580.