Fountain of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes - Brussels, Belgium
N 50° 50.363 E 004° 21.407
31U E 595531 N 5632840
The Fountain of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes is located in the Place du Petit Sablon in Brussels, Belgium.
Waymark Code: WMM608
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date Posted: 07/27/2014
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"Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-1568) and Philippe de Montmorency, Count de Hoorne (1518-68) were among the nobles and commoners rebelling against what they saw as the hardships that the Spanish overlords had brought to the Low Countries. Egmont and Hoorne were imprisoned in Maison du Roi; tried; found guilty; and beheaded in Grand-Place. The men are celebrated as leaders in Belgium’s fight for independence. The 1864 monument that stands at on end of the park, in the Flemish Neo-Renaissance style, designed by Charles-Auguste Fraikin (1817-1893), depicts the Counts of Egmont and Hornes, executed on the scaffold on 5.June.1568, because they stood up to Spanish tyranny. The monument, first stood in Grand-Place in front of Maison du Roi, was moved to Petit-Sablon in 1899."
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