MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Execution_of_Egmond_and_Horn.gif (425x700) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Execution of Egmond and Horn.gif en An illustration of Egmont and Horn being executed by beheading On June 5 1568 both men Lamoral Count of Egmont aged only 46 and Philip de Montmorency Count of Horn aged 44 were beheaded in the Grand Place in Brussels Egmont's uncomplaining dignity on the occasion being widely noted Both had been condemned to death by the Council of Troubles led by the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands Fernando Álvarez de Toledo 3rd Duke of Alba - even though they were Catholics Their deaths led to public protests throughout the Netherlands and contributed to the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the Dutch Republic in 1648 Benson John Lossing ed The New Popular Educator Vol V London Cassell Company Limited 1891 p 265 Benson John Lossing 1891 Died June 3 1891 PD-old-100 Lamoral Count of Egmont Philip de Montmorency Count of Horne Grand Place Brussels Uploaded with UploadWizard Benson John Lossing Council of Troubles | ||||
