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Lamoral, Count of Egmont
1568Jun, 5

Lamoral, Count of Egmont

Lamoral, Count of Egmont (b. 1522)
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.

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