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Thus died Philip Montmorency, Count of Horn, and Lamoral of Egmont, Prince of Gaveren. The more intense sympathy which seemed to attach itself to the fate of Egmont, rendered the misfortune of his companion in arms and in death comparatively less interesting. Egmont is a great historical figure, but he was certainly not a great man.
The first truce and negotiations for peace, initiated in the summer of 1452, were broken off because the conditions were unbearable to the Ghenters. Another year of warfare followed before the decisive battle of Gaveren, in July, 1453, forced them sadly to succumb. There was no other course open to them. Not only were they defeated but their numbers were decimated.
This course was pursued by the Hollanders and the Zealanders, all alike short-sighted. The Ghenters succeeded in possessing themselves of the castle of Poucque by force, and of the village of Gaveren by stratagem, taking advantage in the latter case of the castellan's absence at church.
Some passages from one of these reports by an unknown war correspondent run as follows: "As to news from here, Monday after St. Magdalen's Day, Monseigneur the duke got the better of the Ghenters near Gaveren between ten and eleven o'clock.
Thus died Philip Montmorency, Count of Horn, and Lamoral of Egmont, Prince of Gaveren. The more intense sympathy which seemed to attach itself to the fate of Egmont, rendered the misfortune of his companion in arms and in death comparatively less interesting. Egmont is a great historical figure, but he was certainly not a great man.
Bareheaded, barefooted, and divested of all their robes of office and of dignity, clad only in shirts and small clothes, these magistrates confessed that they had wronged their loving lord by unruly rebellion, and begged his pardon most humbly. The duke spent the night of July 29th at Gaveren, prepared to march out in the morning with his whole army in handsome array.
Thus died Philip Montmorency, Count of Horn, and Lamoral of Egmont, Prince of Gaveren. The more intense sympathy which seemed to attach itself to the fate of Egmont, rendered the misfortune of his companion in arms and in death comparatively less interesting. Egmont is a great historical figure, but he was certainly not a great man.
Guienne conquered by the French from the English. Ghent revolts against Philip, Duke of Burgundy. End of the Eastern empire. See "MAHOMET II TAKES CONSTANTINOPLE," viii, 55. Submission of Ghent to the Duke of Burgundy after its forces had been defeated at Gaveren. Battle of Castillon; defeat of the English; loss of all the English conquests in France, except Calais; end of the Hundred Years' War.
Thus died Philip Montmorency, Count of Horn, and Lamoral of Egmont, Prince of Gaveren. The more intense sympathy which seemed to attach itself to the fate of Egmont, rendered the misfortune of his companion in arms and in death comparatively less interesting. Egmont is a great historical figure, but he was certainly not a great man.
This they did. St. Lievin was restored to the church and his followers betook themselves to the gates specified in the treaty of Gaveren. These they broke down, and also destroyed another house where was a tax collector's office. "The report of these events carried to Monseigneur did not have a good effect upon his spirit. On the morrow Monseigneur quitted the city."
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