Lamoral, Count of Egmont
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Lamoral, Count of Egmont (November 18, 1522, La Hamaide near Ellezelles – June 5 1568, Brussels) was a general and statesman in Flanders just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.
On June 5, 1568, both he and the Count of Hoorn were decapitated on the Grand-Place in Brussels. The Dutch Revolt begins.
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