Revolt the gueux ones
The Révolte of Gueux is the revolt which took place with the Spanish Netherlands starting from 1566.
A very great number of churches were devastated at the time of this also qualified revolt of crisis iconoclast , because the revolted Protestants were caught some with the representations, with the " images". The first place of worship to be ransacked was the convent of the St. Lawrence with Steenvoorde in the Westhoek. Then the revolt was spread, a such powder trail, through the whole of the Netherlands of the South, until Antwerp.
Although it was carried out by part of the nobility (of which William of Orange, the count d' Egmont, the count de Hornes, Henri de Brederode, Louis de Nassau), the term of “gueux” was asserted by the insurrectionists in reference to a remark of Charles de Berlaymont, then adviser near the general governor of the Netherlands, with Marguerite of Parma. This one wanted to reassure it after the alliance of noble and he declared: “ They are only gueux ”. It is also told that the noble ones and calvinists disguised into gueux during a patriotic banquet the April 5th 1566.
From 1568, and in particular after the execution of the counts of Egmont and of Hornes, the revolt was transformed into true war, the Guerre Eighty Year old which leads to the independence of the United Provinces (the current Netherlands) recognized by the Spain by a treaty signed in 1648.
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