Hendrick van Brederode

Count Heinrich von Brederode (* December 20, 1531 in Brussels, † February 15, 1568 at Schloss Burg Horne in Recklinghausen), viscount of Utrecht, The Sovereign Lord of Vianen, been a champion of the liberation of the Netherlands from Spanish rule. He was the son Reinouds III. van Brederode and van Margretha Borselen and a half-brother of Lancelot Brederode.

Life

Count Heinrich von Brederode was initially in the service of King Philip II, but joined later on as supporters of the Reformation and as the leader of the resistance against the Spanish government. He presented on April 5, 1566 at the head of 300 nobles of the regent Margaret of Parma in Brussels a petition that urged the abolition of the Inquisition.

From him the proposal, the designation as gueux ( beggar ), which is said to have sarcastically referred to the petitioners, the Minister of the governor, Charles de Berlaymont ( 1510-1578 ), the future comes as a title of honor for his party to use ( Beggars ).

The gathered after the Iconoclasm of August 1566 and the forced religious freedom consistory of the " Reformed " appointed Brederode at their captain. But Brederode could do as little as the other leaders of the Calvinists here. Moved by Orange's insistence to abandon Antwerp, he turned to the beginning of 1567 to the northern Netherlands. While his supporters seized the city Hertogenboschs, Brederode Amsterdam tried to armed resistance against Spanish rule to cause the Captain-General, he was in March 1567. However, he failed to adequately organize the city militarily. After a month of Count Brederode by the Spanish commander Philip of Noircarmes out of town was sold.

As a short time after the insurgent Calvinists were defeated by the Spaniards, Henry of Brederode tried out on the advice of Lamoraal of Egmond, reconciliation with Margaret of Parma and their government. After this company had failed, had Brederode in April 1567 to Emden flee. In the spring of 1568 he died at Schloss Burg Horne in Recklinghausen. His body was first buried in Gemen and 1602 transferred to the Alps, where he found his final resting place at the side of his wife Amalia.