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Also Known As Luis de Requessens y Zúñiga
Born August 25, 1528 • Barcelona • Spain
Died March 5, 1576 (aged 47) • Brussels • Spanish Netherlands
Title / Office governor (1573-1576), Netherlands
Role In Eighty Years’ War
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
William I
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman
Louis of Nassau, panel portrait by an unknown artist, 1574; in the Orange Nassau Museum, Delft, Neth.
Louis of Nassau
Dutch political leader
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
The Great Condé, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1662
Louis II de Bourbon, 4 prince de Condé
French general and prince
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders
Dutch politician
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte
prime minister of the Netherlands and secretary-general of NATO
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician
William I
William I
king of The Netherlands
Silvio Berlusconi and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Dutch politician
Pieter Geyl
Dutch historian
Bernhard, prince of the Netherlands, prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld
prince of the Netherlands
Count van Egmond, painting by an unknown artist, 16th century; in the German National Museum, Nürnberg.
Lamoraal, graaf van Egmond
Dutch noble
Filips van Montmorency, count van Horne
Dutch statesman
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper
Dutch theologian and statesman
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud
Dutch architect
Willem Drees
prime minister of the Netherlands
William II
William II
king of The Netherlands
Margaret of Austria
regent of The Netherlands [1480-1530]