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Hace 3 días · Balthasar Gérard was a French Catholic and an admirer of King Philip II of Spain. So, when Philip offered a 25,000 crown bounty for anybody willing to assassinate his political enemy, the Dutch revolutionary and Protestant Prince William the Silent, Gérard jumped at the opportunity.
Hace 6 días · In 1584, William the Silent was assassinated by Balthasar Gérard, after Philip had offered a reward of 25,000 crowns to anyone who killed him, calling him a "pest on the whole of Christianity and the enemy of the human race".
29 de abr. de 2024 · William the Silent was assassinated on July 10, 1584, in Delft, the Netherlands. He was killed by Balthasar Gérard, a French Catholic extremist who opposed William's leadership and the Protestant cause. Gérard shot William at close range during a meeting at the Prinsenhof, lodging multiple bullets into his chest.
Hace 4 días · People today are outraged by the brutality of the beheadings in the middle east (and rightfully so). But what folks don't realize is that life and punishment was far worse in the supposedly "civil" English world of 1200-1800 AD. For a particularly brutal example of capital punishment, read about the execution of Balthasar Gérard in the 1500s.
Hace 4 días · Following Catholic Emancipation in 1829, six works of Christian poetry in the Welsh language by Richard Gwyn, five carols and a satirical Cywydd composed in Wrexham Gaol following the assassination of Dutch Revolt leader William the Silent by Balthasar Gérard, were discovered and published.
29 de abr. de 2024 · Este lunes se dictaminó que Gérard Depardieu irá a juicio por los cargos penales que se le imputan de agresión sexual a dos mujeres durante el rodaje de una película en Francia en 2021, lo que...
30 de abr. de 2024 · El actor francés fue detenido e interrogado este lunes por dos nuevas denuncias por agresiones sexuales. Gérard Depardieu en enero de 2023, en Berlín. Tristar Media (Getty Images) Marc Bassets....
