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Lamoraal van Egmont
b.18 Nov 1522 Ellezelles, Hainaut, Belgium
d.5 Jun 1568 Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
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m. 1516
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m. 8 May 1544
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Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (18 November 1522 – 5 June 1568) was 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.
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