Brederode

Brederode, HENRY, COUNT OF, born in Brussels, in December 1531, was a leader of the disaffected nobility in the struggle against Spain. He drew up the 'Compromise' of 1566, and headed the deputation to whom the name Gueux (q.v.) was first applied. He was active in organising the fraternity, but the failure of an attempt, in the following year, to raise an armed revolt in Amsterdam, obliged him to flee to Germany, where he died at Recklinghausen, 24th August 1568.