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| | Biography.com - Gerards, Balthazar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Gerards was a clerk in the Court of Justice at Dole (France), who joined Mansfeld's troops. |
 | | Philip II of Spain had put a price on Orange's head, which was eventually paid to Gerards' family, who were also ennobled. |
 | | He entered the prince's service under a false name (François Guyon), claiming to be a Huguenot, and on 10 July 1584, after buying two pistols with money given to him by the prince, he shot him from behind a pillar in his residence in Delft. |
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