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1522, Nov 181542-15681568, Jun 5
a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands. In the service of the Spanish army, he defeated the French in the battles of Saint-Quentin (1557) and Gravelines (1558). Egmont was appointed stadtholder of Flanders and Artois in 1559, aged only 37.
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08/10/1557-Battle of St. Quentin: Lamoral of Egmont and Emmanuel Philibert beat France
07/13/1558-Battle of Gravelines: General Lamoral of Egmont beats France
09/09/1567-Lamoral of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, captured 
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Lamoral of Egmont1522, Nov 181542
 
15681568, Jun 5
Pedro de Valdivia1497, Apr 171520
 
15531553, Dec 25
 a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army...
John Dudley [1]15041537
 
15531553, Aug 22
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Thomas Wyatt the Younger15211542
 
15541554, Apr 11
 a rebel leader during the reign of Mary I of England; his rising is traditionally called "Wyatt's...
Ignatius of Loyola1491, Oct 231508
 
15551556, Jul 31
 a Spanish priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jes...
Hans Staden1525 ca1547
 
 
15551579 ca
 a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century...
Jean de Beaugueunknown1540
 
1559unknown
 a French soldier who served in Scotland in the 1540s during the war of the Rough Wooing. He wrote...
Anne de Montmorency1493, Mar 151515
 
15671567, Nov 12
 a French soldier, statesman and diplomat. He became Marshal of France and Constable of France. Wh...
Matsura Takanobu15291550
 
15691599, Apr 1
  a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was o...
Juan Perez de Zurita15161536
 
15791595 ca
 a Spanish Conquistador. In 1536 he began his military career. In 1548 he was in Granada and in 15...
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo1507, Oct 291524
 
15821582, Dec 11
 a Spanish noble, general, and diplomat. He was titled the 3rd Duke of Alba de Tormes, 4th Marquis...
Robert Dudley [1]1532/33, Jun 241558
 
15881588, Sep 4
 an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I's, from her first year on t...
Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba [2]unknown1510
 
1601517
 a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in t...
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