biography
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Louis of Nassau
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Dutch Lodewijk van Nassau
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| lived:
| (1538–74)
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| biography:
| Dutch soldier, born in Dillenburg, WC Germany, the third son of William the Rich and Juliana of Stolberg, and brother of William I of Orange. In 1557–9 he fought the French under Egmont and his brother William. As a Lutheran he represented the non-Calvinist interest in the Compromise. On Alva's arrival in The Netherlands he fled to Germany with Orange. He was very active in the Eighty Years' War, leading the invasion of Groningen in 1568, where he was victorious at Heiligerlee over Aremberg, but was later defeated at Jemmingen by Alva. He fought against the French with the Huguenots, met Theodore Beza and the Swiss Calvinists, and became a Calvinist himself. With Philip of Marnix he organized the theological debate at Dillenburg, which resulted in the whole Orange family turning Calvinist. In 1572 he captured Mons, only for it to be retaken later the same year by Alva. He was killed with his brother Henry at the Battle of Mookerheide. Of William the Rich's five sons he was the best soldier. |
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