Battle of Heiligerlee
Image of the battle of Heiligerlee
| date | May 23, 1568 |
|---|---|
| place | Heiligerlee |
| output | Victory of the rebels |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 3900 infantrymen 200 cavalrymen |
3200 infantrymen 20 cavalrymen
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| losses | |
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50 dead |
1500 to 2000 dead |
Western Europe
Oosterweel - Dahlen - Heiligerlee - Jemgum - Jodoigne - Le Quesnoy - Brielle - Mons - Goes - 1. Mechelen - Naarden - Middelburg - Haarlem - Alkmaar - Geertruidenberg - Leiden - Delft - Valkenburg - Mooker Heide - Schoonhoven - Zierikzee - 1. Antwerp - Gembloux - Rijmenam - 1. Deventer - Borgerhout - 1. Maastricht - 2. Mechelen - 1. Steenwijk - Kollum - 1. Breda - Noordhorn - Niezijl - Lochem - Lier - Eindhoven - Steenbergen - Ghent - Aalst - 2. Antwerp - IJsseloord - Empel - Boksum - 1. Grave - 1. Venlo - Axel - Neuss - 1. Rheinberg - Zutphen - 1. Sluis - 1. Bergen op Zoom - 2. Geertruidenberg - 2. Breda - 2. Zutphen - 2. Deventer - Delfzijl - Knodsenburg - 1. Hulst - Nijmegen - Rouen - Caudebec - 2. Steenwijk - 1. Coevorden - 3. Geertruidenberg - 2. Coevorden - Groningen - Huy - 1. Groenlo - Lippe - Calais - 2. Hulst - Turnhout - 2. Rheinberg - 1. Moers - 2. Groenlo - Bredevoort - Enschede - Ootmarsum - 1. Oldenzaal - 1. Lingen - 1. Schenckenschans - Zaltbommel - Rees - San Andreas - Nieuwpoort - 3. Rheinberg - Ostend - 1. 's-Hertogenbosch - 2. Grave - Hoogstraten - 3. Sluis
Twelve Years Peace
2. Lingen - 3. Groenlo - Aachen - Jülich - 2. Bergen-op-Zoom - Fleurus - 3. Breda - 2. Oldenzaal - 4. Groenlo - 2. 's-Hertogenbosch - Slaak - 2. Maastricht - Leuven - 2. Schenkenschans - 4. Breda - 2. Venlo - Kallo - 3. Hulst
European waters
Vlissingen - Borsele - Haarlemmermeer - Zuiderzee - Scheldt - Lillo - Ponta Delgada - Bayona Islands - Gulf of Almería - 1st Cadiz - Azores - Strait of Dover - 2nd Sluis - 1st Cape St. Vincent - 1st Gibraltar - 2nd Gibraltar - 2nd Cadiz - Lizard Point - Dunkirk - Calais - Downs - 2nd Cape St. Vincent - 2nd St. Martin
America
Bahia - Matanzas - St. Martin - San Juan - Abrolhos - Pernambuco - South Chile
East Indies
Playa Honda - 1st San Salvador - 2nd San Salvador - La Naval de Manila - Puerto de Cavite
The battle of Heiligerlee in today's province of Groningen on May 23, 1568 took place at the beginning of the Eighty Years War , which only ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and led to the independence of the Netherlands .
The Dutch rebels relied on an army of 3900 infantrymen and 200 cavalrymen , led by Ludwig and Adolf von Nassau , two brothers of William I of Orange-Nassau .
The army of the governor of the Spaniards in Groningen, Johann de Ligne , Count von Aremberg , consisted of 3200 infantrymen and 20 cavalrymen. The governor of the Spaniards avoided the confrontation at first and waited for reinforcements, but on May 23 the battle broke out. Aremberg lost between 1,500 and 2,000 men, while the rebels lost only 50 men, including Adolf von Nassau, whose death is mentioned in the Dutch national anthem Het Wilhelmus : "Graef Adolff is ghebleven, in Vriesland in the slaech." Also Johann de Ligne fell on the battlefield.
The army of the Dutch rebels did not take any cities and was defeated on July 21, 1568 at the Battle of Jemgum .
Web links
- Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1570: Graff Ludwich like a Khuener heldt, Zu Groningen gave himself into the field, Since the von Arnbergh and his bendt, slain by him, and Zertrent ... ( digitalisat )
Individual evidence