Mook en Middelaar
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Mook en Middelaar is a municipality in the upper southeastern part of the Netherlands, at the northern tip of the province of Limburg and is a part of Stadsregio Arnhem Nijmegen. The municipality is l
Mook town centre across the Meuse
Mook, former town hall
Mook, church
Mookerplas
Louis of Nassau
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Louis of Nassau was a Dutch nobleman, the third son of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg, and the younger brother of Prince William of Orange Nassau.
Mook en Middelaar
…the Battle of Mookerheyde in 1574 which was fought as part of the Eighty Years War. Spanish forces under Sancho d'Avila defeated the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who was killed. The Mookerschans and Heumense schans were defenses on the Mookerheide probably from the 17th century. (At that time the Mookerheide…
Portrait by Adriaen Thomasz Key, between 1570 and 1574
Louis (left) with his brothers John (sitting), Adolf, and Henry
Portrait of Louis of Nassau in Emanuel van Meteren's Historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen.., 1614