- authority, as a
sovereign province,
raise a
local force of 4000 men (
waardgelders) to keep the peace. The States-General, meanwhile, by a bare majority...
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Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot: The
Disbanding of the '
Waardgelders' (Mercenaries in the Pay of the Town Government) by Maurice,
Prince of
Orange on Neude...
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authorities in
cities to
recruit their own
companies of mercenaries,
called waardgelders, to
maintain order. This was seen as a
threat to his
authority as commander-in-chief...
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schutterijen in the cities, with the
authority for
local authorities to hire
waardgelders (auxiliary
mercenary troops) in case of need; the
right to political...
-
Maurice disbands the
waardgelders (muni****l
mercenary army) on the
Neude (town square) in the city of
Utrecht on 31 July 1618, a
pivotal event in the...
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victory at the
Battle of
Nieuwpoort in 1600 and the
disbanding of the ‘
Waardgelders’ in
Utrecht in 1618. He
further painted the
Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch...
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authorised city
governments to
raise mercenary armies, the so-called
waardgelders,
outside the
federal army or
civic militias, to
maintain public order...
- the
island of Trinidad. 1618 – Maurice,
Prince of
Orange disbands the
waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a
pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant...
-
Holland were
authorized to
start recruiting mercenaries by the name of
Waardgelders to help
maintain civil peace in
their jurisdictions; The
commanders of...
- 1617
which authorized city
governments to
raise private armies,
called waardgelders. The Counter-Remonstrants, the
enemies of the
Remonstrants opposed this...
