Diederik Sonoy, the Glossary
Diederik Sonoy or Snoey (Kalkar (Duchy of Cleves), 1529 - Pieterburen, 2 June 1597) was a leader of the Geuzen during the Eighty Years' War.[1]
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27 relations: Alkmaar, Catholic Church, Compromise of Nobles, Duchy of Cleves, East Frisia, Egmond Abbey, Egmond Castle, Eighty Years' War, Elizabeth I, England, Enkhuizen, Franciscans, Geuzen, Holland, Kalkar, Lay brother, Martyrs of Alkmaar, North Holland, Pieterburen, Ransdorp, Reformation, Religious fanaticism, Snoy, The Hague, Torture, Waterland, William the Silent.
Alkmaar
Alkmaar is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Compromise of Nobles
The Compromise of Nobles ('''Eedverbond der Edelen'''.; '''Compromis des Nobles'''.) was a covenant of members of the nobility in the Habsburg Netherlands who came together to submit a petition to the Regent Margaret of Parma on 5 April 1566, with the objective of obtaining a moderation of the placards against heresy in the Netherlands.
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Duchy of Cleves
The Duchy of Cleves (Herzogtum Kleve; Hertogdom Kleef) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval.
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East Frisia
East Frisia or East Friesland (Ostfriesland;; Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Egmond Abbey
Egmond Abbey or St.
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Egmond Castle
Egmond Castle (Kasteel Egmond), also called the Ruins of Egmond (Ruïne van Egmond), is a ruined medieval castle in the Dutch province of North Holland.
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Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
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Franciscans
The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.
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Geuzen
Geuzen (Les Gueux) was a name assumed by the confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles, who from 1566 opposed Spanish rule in the Netherlands.
Holland
Holland is a geographical regionG.
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Kalkar
Kalkar (is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the Rhine, approx. 10 km south-east of Cleves. The catholic church St. Nicolai has preserved one of the most significant sacral inventories from the late Middle Ages in Germany.
Lay brother
Lay brother is a largely extinct term referring to religious brothers, particularly in the Catholic Church, who focused upon manual service and secular matters, and were distinguished from choir monks or friars in that they did not pray in choir, and from clerics, in that they were not in possession of (or preparing for) holy orders.
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Martyrs of Alkmaar
The Martyrs of Alkmaar (Martelaren van Alkmaar) were a group of 5 Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious, who were hanged on 24 June 1572 in the town of Alkmaar by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th-century religious wars—specifically, the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which developed into the Eighty Years' War.
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North Holland
North Holland (Noord-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country.
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Pieterburen
Pieterburen is a village in the northeastern Netherlands, located in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Groningen.
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Ransdorp
Ransdorp is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands, part of the municipality of Amsterdam.
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Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
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Religious fanaticism
Religious fanaticism, or religious extremism, is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
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Snoy
The Snoy family or Snoy d'Oppuers currently Snoy et d'Oppuers, is a Belgian noble family.
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
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Waterland
Waterland is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
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William the Silent
William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.
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