biography
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Bloys or Blois, Willem van Treslong
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| lived:
| (1529–94)
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| biography:
| Radical Calvinist, freedom fighter, and admiral, born in Brielle, W Netherlands. He was the son of the Bailiff of Voorne and Brielle, and descended irregularly from Count John of Blois. A fierce Calvinist, he signed the Compromise, and took part in the Iconoclasm and in Brederode's raid on Amsterdam. On Alva's arrival he based himself in Emden as a privateer attached to the Sea Beggars (Watergeuzen), and took an important part in the seizure of Brielle. An admiral in Holland (1573) and Zeeland (1576), he was arrested for corruption and insubordination in 1585, but released through mediation by the Earl of Leicester. |
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