Raad van Beroerten

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Raad van Beroerten was the Dutch name for the Council of Troubles, a special court established by the Duke of Alba in the Spanish Netherlands in 1567 to harshly suppress political and religious dissent during the early stages of the Dutch Revolt.

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Raad van Beroerten canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf extraordinary tribunal
historical institution
special court
alsoKnownAs Bloedraad
Council of Blood
Council of Troubles
appliesToGroup political opponents of Spanish rule
suspected heretics
appliesToJurisdiction Habsburg Netherlands
surface form: Spanish Netherlands
appliesToTerritory Habsburg Netherlands
Low Countries
appointedBy Philip II of Spain
authority King of Spain
capital Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels
consequence increased anti-Spanish sentiment in the Netherlands
radicalization of the Dutch Revolt
country Habsburg Netherlands
surface form: Spanish Netherlands
dissolved 1574
establishedBy Fernando Álvarez de Toledo
surface form: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
hasCause Eighty Years' War
surface form: Dutch Revolt

Iconoclastic Fury of 1566
hasEffect international criticism of Spanish policy in the Low Countries
strengthening of Dutch resistance
historicalPeriod Eighty Years' War
surface form: Dutch Revolt

Eighty Years' War
inception 1567
languageOfName Dutch
legalBasis royal decree of Philip II
legalForm court of law
location Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels
mainSubject Calvinism
Protestantism
political dissent
religious dissent
method confiscation of property
public executions
summary trials
nativeLabel Raad van Beroerten self-link
notableCase trial of Lamoral, Count of Egmont
trial of Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn
opposedBy Dutch nobility
Protestant communities in the Low Countries
parentOrganization Crown of Spain
surface form: Spanish Crown
partOf Spanish repression in the Netherlands
purpose repression of the Dutch Revolt
suppression of political opposition
suppression of religious dissent
significantEvent execution of Egmont and Hoorn in 1568
mass condemnations for heresy

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Council of Troubles alsoKnownAs Raad van Beroerten
Council of Blood alsoKnownAs Raad van Beroerten
Raad van Beroerten nativeLabel Raad van Beroerten self-link