History 2403E Lecture 23: History 2403- lec 23
26 Oct 2016
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Leaders in the low country did not like philip affecting/ controlling their lives. Margaret of parma: sister of phillip ii left as representative of philips kingdom. Leaders of the low country approached margaret and asked for help, wanted to maintain the status quo and they pull back. Send a second convoy, bigger group but lesser status (philip refuses again) Protestant rose up and acts of iconoclasm (attacked. Margaret gives into some of their demands to keep from civil war (created calm in lower country but it enrages. Philip fires margaret and sends as a replacement the. Council of troubles: council to deal with rebels who rose up and committed. Iconoclasm against catholic property: 1200 people put on trial and 1000 were executed, court designed to find guilty and string up the worst of them (hanging court, a lot of protestant leaders were done away with. Dutch war of independence: war of sieges and naval battles.
