Decapitation of Count Egmont and Hoorn (1568)
Decapitation of Count Egmont and Hoorn (1568) at Brussels during Spanish tyranny in Netherlands. Duke of Alva, mounted centre right, enforced brutal Spanish (Roman Catholic) rule in Protestant Netherlands 1567-73. Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-68), Flemish soldier and statesman is the subject of the Beethoven Egmont overture
Picture No
13903627
Media ID
48577664
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3432px x 4500px
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Credit
World History Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
World History Archive





























