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Sack of Antwerp, the Glossary

The sack of Antwerp, often known as the Spanish Fury at Antwerp, was an episode of the Eighty Years' War.^[1]

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Aalst, Belgium

Aalst (Alost,; Brabantian: Oilsjt) is a city and municipality on the Dender River, northwest from Brussels in the Flemish province of East Flanders.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Antwerp Citadel (Castillo de Amberes, Kasteel van Antwerpen) was a pentagonal bastion fort built to defend and dominate the city of Antwerp in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt. Sack of Antwerp and Antwerp Citadel are 16th century in Antwerp.

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Army of Flanders

The Army of Flanders (Ejército de Flandes Leger van Vlaanderen) was a multinational army in the service of the kings of Spain that was based in the Spanish Netherlands during the 16th to 18th centuries.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Black legend

The Black Legend (Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda.

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Breda

Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant.

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Charles Philippe de Croÿ

Charles Philippe of Croÿ (1 September 1549 – 23 November 1613 in Burgundy), Marquis of Havré, was a soldier and politician from the Southern Netherlands.

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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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English Fury at Mechelen

The English Fury at Mechelen or the Capture of Mechelen was an event in the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War on April 9, 1580. Sack of Antwerp and English Fury at Mechelen are Battles involving the Spanish Netherlands, Battles of the Eighty Years' War, Eighty Years' War (1566–1609) and Looting in Belgium.

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Florin

The Florentine florin was a gold coin (in Italian Fiorino d'oro) struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time.

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French Fury

The "French Fury" was a failed attempt by Francis, Duke of Anjou, to conquer the city of Antwerp by surprise on 17 January 1583. Sack of Antwerp and French Fury are 16th century in Antwerp, Battles involving the Spanish Netherlands, Battles of the Eighty Years' War and Eighty Years' War (1566–1609).

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George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne (c. 15357 October 1577) was an English poet, soldier and unsuccessful courtier.

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Harlow

Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England.

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Heresy

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization.

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Holland

Holland is a geographical regionG.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.

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Juan del Águila

Juan Del Águila (d'Aguila) y Arellano (Ávila, 1545 – A Coruña, August 1602) was a Spanish general.

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Julián Romero

Julián Romero de Ibarrola (Huélamo, 1518 – Felizzano, 1577) was a Spanish military commander in the 16th century.

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Lier, Belgium

Lier (Lierre) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

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Maastricht

Maastricht (Mestreech; Maestricht; Mastrique) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.

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Mercenary

A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.

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Museum aan de Stroom

The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS; Dutch for: Museum by the Stream) is a museum located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Pacification of Ghent

The Pacification of Ghent, signed on 8 November 1576, was an alliance between the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands. Sack of Antwerp and Pacification of Ghent are Eighty Years' War (1566–1609).

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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Sack of Rome (1527)

The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of Cognac. Sack of Antwerp and Sack of Rome (1527) are Massacres committed by Spain.

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Sancho d'Avila

Don Sancho Dávila y Daza (21 September 1523 – 1583) was a Spanish general.

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Scheldt

The Scheldt (Escaut; Schelde) is a river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.

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Seventeen Provinces

The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

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Spanish Fury

The Spanish Fury (or the Spanish Terror) was a number of violent sackings of cities (lootings) in the Low Countries or Benelux, mostly by Spanish Habsburg armies, that happened in the years 1572–1579 during the Dutch Revolt. Sack of Antwerp and Spanish Fury are Eighty Years' War (1566–1609) and Massacres committed by Spain.

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Spanish Fury at Mechelen

The Spanish Fury at Mechelen was an event in the Eighty Years' War on October 2, 1572 in which the city of Mechelen was conquered by the Spanish army and brutally sacked. Sack of Antwerp and Spanish Fury at Mechelen are Battles involving the Spanish Netherlands, Battles of the Eighty Years' War, Eighty Years' War (1566–1609), Looting in Belgium, Massacres committed by Spain and Massacres in Belgium.

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Spanish Netherlands

The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.

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States General of the Netherlands

The States General of the Netherlands (Staten-Generaal) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).

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Tercio

A tercio, Spanish for " third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and the essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting with the navy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Antwerp

Also known as Plundering van Antwerpen, Spanish Fury at Antwerp.

Sack of Antwerp, the Glossary

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See also

16th century in Antwerp

Battles involving the Spanish Netherlands

Battles of the Eighty Years' War

Conflicts in 1576

Looting in Belgium

Massacres committed by Spain

Massacres in Belgium

References