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Balthasar Gérard (alternative spellings Gerards or Gerardts; c. 1557 – 14 July 1584) was the assassin of the Dutch revolt 's leader, William the Silent of the House of Orange (William the Silent, and later known as the "Father of the Fatherland"). He killed William the Silent in Delft on 10 July 1584, by shooting him twice with a pair of ...
William the Silent (l. 1533-1584, also known as William of Orange) was the leader of the Dutch Revolt (the Eighty Years' War) in the Netherlands; first politically (between 1559-1568) then militarily (between 1568-1584). He is among the most prominent figures in Dutch history, regarded as the Father of the Fatherland, and in European history of ...
3 de feb. de 2015 · Description. Upon his departure from the Netherlands in 1559 Philip II of Spain accuses William of Orange to personally lead the resistance against the king by the nobility. The act takes place on a jetty with the king and his retinue on the left and in the background the sails of his ship. The king grabs the hand of the prince, while pointing ...
On 10 July 1584, the fatal blow was struck. William of Orange was at Prinsenhof, his residence in Delft. As he was climbing the stairs, an assassin appeared and fired a pistol at him. His killer, Balthasar Gerards, claimed to have murdered William of Orange to save the world from that cruel and dreadful man who though a member of the nobility ...
Philip William being kidnapped by the Spaniards by David Van der Kellen III ( Amsterdam Museum) Philip William, Prince of Orange (19 December 1554 in Buren, Gelderland – 20 February 1618) was the eldest son of William the Silent by his first wife Anna van Egmont. He became Prince of Orange in 1584 and Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1599.
The Silent Enemy is a black and white 1958 British action film directed by William Fairchild and starring Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig and John Clements. [1] Based on Marshall Pugh 's 1956 book Commander Crabb, the film follows the publicity created by Lionel Crabb 's mysterious disappearance and likely death during a Cold War ...
1 de ene. de 2003 · There will be many readers of The Historian whose knowledge of the 16th Century is wide and deep. This article is designed to fill in some of the corners to the map of that warravaged century, and to focus on a man, William of Nassau, who fought the battle of the Reformation, not so that he could destroy one religion or another, but to try to get people to accept that everyone could worship in ...
