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Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (18 November 1522 – 5 June 1568) was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.
He is the hero of J.W. von Goethe’s drama Egmont. Belonging to a powerful family of the Netherlands, Lamoraal succeeded to the countship, in Holland, in 1541 and three years later married Sabina of Bavaria, daughter of John II, count palatine of
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Apr 28, 2022 · http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamoral,_Count_of_Egmont. Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (November 18, 1522 – June 5, 1568) was a general and statesman in Flanders just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.[1]
- Elzele, (within present Belgium)
- November 18, 1522
- (within present Belgium)
Philip, Count of Egmont (1558 – Ivry 14 March 1590) was the fifth Count of Egmont, prince of Gavere and 12th and last Lord of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam. He was the eldest son and successor of Lamoral, Count of Egmont, who was beheaded by the Spanish in 1568 in Brussels.
Lamoral Egmont, count of (lä´mōräl´, ĕg´mônt), 1522–68, Flemish general and statesman, member of one of the noblest families of the Netherlands. In the service of Philip II of Spain he helped defeat the French at Saint-Quentin (1557) and Gravelines (1558) and was governor of Brabant and Artois.
Lamoral succeeded to the title and estates, which, beside those of Holland, comprised the principality of Gaevre, seven or eight baronies, and a number of seigniories. When, in 1544, he married Sabina , Duchess of Bavaria and Countess Palatine of the Rhine, the emperor and the King of the Romans assisted at his wedding.
