Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-82)

Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-82) Spanish general and statesman. As lieutenant-general in the Netherlands 1567-73, enforced brutal anti-Protestant rule. Here shown eating a child while, under his feet, are the decapitated bodies of counts Egmont and Horn. From engraving published in the Netherlands in 1572

1572 Alva Alvarez Brutal Counts Decapitated Egmont Enforced Lieutenant-general Persecution Repression Rule Toledo

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