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    The Compromise of Nobles (Dutch: Eedverbond der Edelen; French: Compromis des Nobles) was a covenant of members of the nobility in the Habsburg Netherlands...
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    Brederode. He was the leader of the allied Dutch nobles, the so-called Compromise of Nobles of 1566 and the Geuzen at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War...
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  • Catholic and dissenting) of the Netherlands. This mood first led to peaceful protests (as from the Compromise of Nobles), but the summer of 1566 erupted in violent...
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  • Compromise of 1867 Compromise of Avranches (England) Compromise of Caspe (Kingdom of Aragon) Compromise of Nobles (Habsburg Netherlands) Compromise of Thorn...
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  • To compromise is to make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand. In arguments, compromise means finding agreement...
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    Catholic and dissenting) of the Netherlands. This mood first led to peaceful protests (as from the Compromise of Nobles), but the summer of 1566 erupted in violent...
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    Sablon, Brussels (category Neighbourhoods of Brussels)
    Carmes/Karmelietenstraat was the site of the drafting of the Compromise of Nobles, which ultimately led to the Dutch Revolt. To eliminate any trace of this seditious act...
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    Geuzen (redirect from Beggars of the Sea)
    circumstances or motivations. The leaders of the nobles who signed a solemn league known as the Compromise of Nobles, by which they bound themselves to assist...
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    known as the 'Year of Hunger', or 'Year of Wonders'. Social, political and religious unrest climaxed with the Compromise of Nobles and the Beeldenstorm...
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    Diederik Sonoy (category Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United Provinces))
    military life, signed the compromise of Nobles, and was one of the most fierce advocates of the interests of the Prince of Orange. He gained the first...
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    austere and intolerant; this led to the historic 1566 "Compromise of Nobles". In 1654, the stay of the exiled pretender to the English throne, Prince Charles...
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  • (Marxist–Leninist) - Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium - Compromise of Nobles - Confederation of Christian Trade Unions - Confiserie Roodthooft -...
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    6 April: The banquet of the Geuzen [fr] is held by the Compromise of Nobles in the Court of Culemborg [nl; fr]. June: Large preachings occur as iconoclasts...
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    One of her aides supposedly insulted the nobles by calling them gueux, French for "beggars"; this word evolved to Dutch geuzen which the nobles and other...
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    1412 Compromise of Caspe (Compromiso de Caspe in Spanish, Compromís de Casp in Catalan) was an act and resolution of parliamentary representatives of the...
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  • the Compromise of Nobles on April 5, 1566, are beheaded. June 13 – Thomas Lancaster is consecrated as the Archbishop of Armagh, spiritual leader of the...
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  • the upheaval of the Compromise of Nobles in 1566. When, in August 1566, social unrest broke out in connection with open-air sermons of Calvinists and...
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    Jacob van Wassenaer Duivenvoorde (category Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War)
    Gijsbert van Duvenvoorde, the lord of Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek & Opmeer and member of the Compromise of Nobles. In 1604 he married Anna van Randerode...
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    Burgundy. Although he had actively participated in the elaboration of the Compromise of Nobles, which was ignored by King Philip, he did not sign it. Glymes...
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    Louis Gallait (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    The painting was exhibited together with a painting entitled the Compromise of Nobles by another young Belgian painter, Edouard de Bièfve. Both paintings...
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    the Compromise of Nobles on April 5, 1566, are beheaded. June 13 – Thomas Lancaster is consecrated as the Archbishop of Armagh, spiritual leader of the...
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    Jan van Casembroot (category Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United Provinces))
    Anna. He was secretary of Lamoral, Count of Egmont and he signed the Compromise of Nobles, in which the nobles pleaded for religious freedom. Jan Casembroot...
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  • "one who rules by himself.” Many titles listed may also be used by lesser nobles – non-sovereigns – depending on the historical period and state. The sovereign...
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    of Belgian historians Cities in Belgium Timeline of Antwerp Timeline of Bruges Timeline of Brussels Timeline of Ghent Timeline of Leuven Timeline of Liège...
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    famous comment on the Compromise of Nobles in 1566. The nobles had come to Brussels with a petition for Margaret of Parma, governess of the Netherlands, hoping...
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    was not kept on several occasions thereafter. As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, it was reconstituted in 1867. The Latin term Natio Hungarica...
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  • a group of nobles started a political movement, the Compromise of Nobles, in direct reaction to the letters. Also, on 24 January 1566, one of the leading...
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    Claude de Berlaymont (category Year of birth unknown)
    the Compromise of Nobles as "geuzen" (beggars), an appellation the Dutch proudly adopted. Gilles of Berlaymont, count of Hierges, stadtholder of Friesland...
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    to prepare and draft the Compromise of Nobles in 1566, which Hendrik offered to Margaret of Parma (1522–1586), the Governor of the Netherlands. In 1567...
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  • Catherine Tishem (category Year of birth unknown)
    co-signed the Compromise of Nobles in 1566, and to flee prosecution in the Spanish Netherlands, they moved to the Dutch Calvinist exile community of Norwich...
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