Dutch statesman and revolt leader (1533-1584)
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He led the Dutch revolt that broke the Spanish hold on the Low Countries, launched an eighty-year war, and died for it — shot in his own house in 1584 after Spain declared him outlaw and put a price on his head.
Born into the House of Nassau on 24 April 1533, William became Prince of Orange in 1544 and spent his early career serving the Habsburgs at the court of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. But centralisation of power and the persecution of Dutch Protestants turned him against his former masters, and he joined the uprising that would become the Eighty Years' War in 1568. The most politically capable of the rebels, he steered the Dutch through years of armed resistance against Spanish rule. In 1580 the Spanish king declared him outlaw; four years later, on 10 July 1584, Balth…
Sourced, dated quotes from William the Silent
It is the will of God, and we must submit; but I call my God to witness that I have done all that in me lay to save the city, utterly desperate as I knew the attempt to be.
I have come to make my grave in this land.
Tell the King, that whole cities are in open revolt against the prosecutions, and that it is impossible to enforce the decrees here.
The end will show the whole truth.
Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food.
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