Heinrich von Brederode

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Heinrich von Brederode
Heinrich von Brederode

Heinrich Graf von Brederode (born December 20, 1531 in Brussels , † February 15, 1568 at Horneburg Castle near Recklinghausen ), Burgrave of Utrecht , sovereign lord of Vianen , was a pioneer for the liberation of the Dutch from Spanish rule. He was the son of Reinoud III. van Brederode and the Philippine de la Marck, daughter of Robert II. de La Marck and a half-brother of Lancelot von Brederode .

Life

Heinrich Graf von Brederode was initially in the service of King Philip II , but later appeared as a supporter of the Reformation and as a leader of the resistance against the Spanish government. On April 5, 1566, at the head of 300 nobles, he submitted a petition to the governor Margaret of Parma in Brussels, urging the inquisition to be abolished .

He proposed to use the term gueux ( beggar ), which the governor's minister, Charles de Berlaymont (1510–1578), mockingly referred to the supplicants, as an honorary name for his party ( Geusen ).

After the iconoclasm of August 1566 and the enforced freedom of religion , the consistories of the “Reformed” appointed Brederode as their field captain . But Brederode could do no more than the other leaders of the Calvinists . By Orange's moved urge Antwerp give up, he turned to the beginning of 1567 to the northern Netherlands. While his supporters were taking over the city of Hertogenbosch , Brederode Amsterdam tried to induce armed resistance against Spanish rule, of which he became general captain in March 1567. Nevertheless, he did not succeed in organizing the city militarily enough. After a month, Count Brederode was driven out of the city by the Spanish general Philipp von Noircarmes .

When the rebellious Calvinists were defeated by the Spaniards a short time later , Heinrich von Brederode, on the advice of Lamoral von Egmond , tried to reconcile himself with Margaret of Parma and her government. After this venture failed, Brederode had to flee to Emden in April 1567 . In the spring of 1568 he died at Horneburg Castle near Recklinghausen. His body was first buried in Gemen and transferred to Alpen in 1602 , where he found his final resting place at the side of his wife Amalia .

Individual evidence

  1. The vernacular wants Berlaymont to have whispered to the governor at the reception: "Ce n'est qu'un tas de gueux!" (That's just a bunch of beggars)
  2. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpen-Lexikon (Ed.): Alpen-Lexikon , 2005, page 31.

literature

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