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  Balthazar Gerards
Balthazar Gerards (1557-1584) was the assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William the Silent.
Gerards was born in Vuillafans, France, at number 3 in the street now called Rue Gerard.
In the first night of his imprisonment Balthazar Gerards was hung on a pole and lashed with a whip.
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 Kwartierstaat van Henricus Gerardus (Harry) Dietz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gerard I ´de Lange´ is overleden op 24-10-1137, 74 jaar oud.
Gerard II is overleden in 1082, 72 jaar oud.
Gerard I is overleden in 1033, ongeveer 48 jaar oud.
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 Balthazar Gerards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Balthazar Gerards (1557 - 1584) wasthe assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William the Silent.
Gerards was born inVuillafans, France, at number 3 in the street now called Rue Gerard.
Balthazar is alleged to have remained calmduring his torture.
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 Balthazar Gerards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Balthazar Gerards became famous by assassinating the Dutch independence leader, William the Silent.
Gerards was born in 1557 in Vuillafans, France number 3 in the street now called Rue Gerard.
It is quite obvious Balthazar Gerards' year of death is 1584.
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 BALTHAZAR GERARDS
The murder of William the Silent by Balthazar Gerards.
In the mean time, Balthazar Gerards had fled through the side door and ran across the narrow lane.
Nonetheless reportedly Balthazar remained calm during all of this horrific torment.
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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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 Delft: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Delft
Delft was one of the leading cities of Holland and was equipped with the necessary city walls to serve as a headquarters.
When William was shot to death in 1584 by Balthazar Gerards[?] in the hall of the Prinsenhof, the family's traditional burial place in Breda was in the hands of the Spanish..
He was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk, starting a tradition for the House of Orange that has continued to the present day.
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 Encyclopedia: Balthazar Gérards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Events June 1 - With the death of the Duc dAnjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
The murder of William the Silent by Balthasar Gérard.
In the mean time, Gérard had fled through the side door and ran across the narrow lane, pursued by Roger Williams.
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 Roger Williams (soldier) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Williams (~1537 - 1595) was a Welsh soldier of fortune.
Williams was in the Netherlands fighting on behalf of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, when the latter was assassinated, and helped capture the assassin, Balthazar Gerards.
Knighted after the Battle of Zutphen in 1586 by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, he accompanied Sir Francis Drake to Portugal, and later fought on behalf of the French Huguenots.
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 "G" Famous People
Gerard d'Houville (1875-1963) French writer, the daughter of the poet...
Gerard, John (1545-1612) Herbalist and barber-surgeon, born in Nantwich, Cheshire, NWC England...
Gerard of Velsen (d.1296) Lord of Beverwijk, Wijk aan Zee, and Noordwijk in The Netherlands...
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 Delta - Dutch justice - Jaargang 35
Holland's got a rich twisted history of State executions!...Think Balthazar Gerards...who assassinated King William the Silent in 1584, right here in Delft's Prinsenhof...
Balthazar showed no pain or remorse!...So the enraged Nawijnians of yore poured a bucket of old stinking piss over Balthazar's head!...before publicly cutting him in pieces on Delft's Markt...
Inspired by such historic barbarity and hoping to ingratiate myself with blubbery Nawijnian rightwing types, I figured out a great way to dispose of Volkert G., the worm-loving animal rightist who pumped Pim full of lead!...(white) Rotterdam was Pim's spiritual home, right...O how Feyenoord football hooligans loved and mourned 'onze Pim'!...
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 Encyclopedia: William I of Orange
July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining.
He went to the Duke of Parma to present his plans, but the Duke was unimpressed.
The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster by Gerard Terborch (1648) Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1648 The Peace of Westphalia, also known as the treaties of Münster and Osnabrück, is the series...
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Het grafmonument werd in opdracht van de Staten-Generaal tussen 1614 en 1622 gebouwd ter nagedachtenis aan de Vader des Vaderlands, prins Willem van Oranje.
De prins werd geboren in 1533 in Dillenburg en op 10 juli 1584 in Delft vermoord door Balthazar Gerards.
Willem van Oranje kon niet in het familiegraf van de Oranjes in Breda worden bijgezet, omdat deze stad in handen was van de Spaanse bezetter.
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 William of Orange, The Silent - Timeline Index
The holes in the wall at the spot where he was shot can still be seen by visitors.
On 26 May 1578, the day on which the so-called Alteration took place, Amsterdam changed from a Catholic city into a Protestant one.
Gerards was born in Vuillafans, France, at number 3 in the street now...
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 Delta - 'Ik kwam net op het nippertje' - Jaargang 28
Hij heeft van Gerards een centraal figuur gemaakt en een aantal elementen toegevoegd, zoals de verzonnen liefdesverhouding tussen Gerards en Elise.
De opera is beslist geen eerherstel voor Balthazar Gerards.
Als Willem hem een glas wijn aanbiedt, zit Gerards hem onthutst aan te kijken; hij heeft ook iets kinderlijks.''
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 Balthazar Gérards - rFind.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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Monaco förhandlar med FC Barcelonas mittfältare Gerard om en övergång som fri agent när Gerards kontrakt går ut den 30 juni.
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 Balthazar, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books
Een uitgave van Balthazar Huydecopers aantekeningen uit de originele notulen van het genootschap voorzien van een inleiding, commentaar en een lijst van N.V.A. drukken door B.P.M. Dongelmans   
Balthazar Gerards: Moordenaar en martelaar (Uitgaven / Delfia Batavorum)
Balthazar's song in Shakspere's Play "Much ado about nothing"...
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 boeken
Deze roman uit 1996 is de eerste Nederlandse vertaling (die uitstekend is, van Gerard Cruys die ook Peter Høeg vertaalde).
Annotatie: De wisselvallige gebeurtenissen uit het jonge leven van een weesmeisje, waarbij vooral het gevoelsleven, vol passie en beklemming, schril naar voren komt.
* Titel: Balthazar Gerards : moordenaar en martelaar, Auteur: Bosma, Nanne
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 Delft - Wikipedia
The painter Johannes Vermeer lived in Delft and used the city as the subject of some of his paintings.
In 1584, during the Eighty Years War between the United Netherlands and Spain, the leader of the Dutch resistance, William the Silent, or Willem van Oranje as Dutch people usually call him, was shot to death by Balthazar Gerards in the hal of the Prinsenhof in Delft.
This page was last modified 11:55, 14 December 2001.
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 Band Profile: The Nitwitz - B.G.K. - Musician Forums
The others go on with on the vocals the 17 year old singer René van de Meer, formerly dustman.
With the new singer B.G.K. (Balthazar Gerards Kommando) was formed.
Balthazar Gerards was the guy who murdered Willem van Oranje, a noble guy from the middle centuries.
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 Pennant
At the beginning of the country's 80 year war against Spain, Prince William of Orange directed the revolt against the Spanish monarch Philip II from Delft.
He was killed there in 1584 by Balthazar Gerards and was entombed in the "Nieuwe Kerk", where to this date all members of the Dutch Royal Family are still buried in a large underground vault.
Whilst Delft expanded on the one hand as an agricultural centre, it expanded on the other hand as a town with important industries, such as Delft beer and Delft pottery, as well as weaving of wool and cotton.
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 INTEC Engineering Quarterly Journal - Winter 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
For example, in the Army Museum you will see how Holland was defended in earlier times.
In the Tools Museum are many examples of the types of tools were used in former days and in the 'Prinsenhof", the residence of the late William of Orange, you will experience history on the exact spot where 'The Father of our Fatherland' was murdered by Balthazar Gerards.
As you can see, there are plenty of interesting places to visit during your stay in Delft.
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 personal library @rocksnob.info -- Generated by WinAmp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Balthazar Gerards Kommando - Arms Race (unreleased) (1:12)
Balthazar Gerards Kommando - Buy or Die (1:11)
Balthazar Gerards Kommando - Honor and Justice (1:47)
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