Twelve Years' Truce
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The Twelve Years' Truce was a ceasefire during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and ended on 9 April 1621. While European powers like Franc
Allegory of Peace and Plenty painted by Abraham Janssens to laud the return of prosperity during the Twelve Years' Truce.
Stadtholder Maurice of Nassau by school of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt.
Ambrogio Spinola, marquis of Los Balbases, by Peter Paul Rubens.
Father Jan Neyen by Peter Paul Rubens.
War of the Jülich Succession
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The War of the Jülich Succession, also known as the Jülich War or the Jülich-Cleves Succession Crises, was a war of succession in the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. The first phase of the war l
John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, portrayed in 1605, was already marked by his serious mental illness.
Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and a member of House Hohenzollern. He would be a leading figure in Brandenburg's attempts to acquire the duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and served as Johann Sigismund's representative in the duchies.
Archduke Leopold V of Further Austria, Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg
King Henry IV of France was a leading supporter of the Protestant Princes in the first phase of the Jülich War