Lamoral, Count of Egmont
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Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising tha
Portrait of Lamoral, Count of Egmont by Frans Pourbus the Elder.
Coat of Arms of Lamoraal van Egmont
A statue of Egmont stands in the middle of the old moat of Egmond aan den Hoef
Statue of Egmont and Hoorne, Square du Petit Sablon/Kleine Zavelsquare, Brussels
Battle of Gravelines (1558)
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The Battle of Gravelines was fought on 13 July 1558 at Gravelines, near Calais, France. It occurred during the twelve-year war between France and Spain.
Lamoral, Count of Egmont
…Golden Fleece from 1546, and Imperial Chamberlain. In the service of the Spanish army, he defeated the French in the battles of Saint-Quentin (1557) and Gravelines (1558). Egmont was appointed stadtholder of Flanders and Artois in 1559, aged only 37. As a leading Netherlandic nobleman, Egmont was a member of King…
The Battle of Gravelines
The Battle of Gravelines, 1558.
Count Egmont at the Battle of Gravelines