- 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...
-
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...
-
Holland were
authorized to
start recruiting mercenaries by the name of
Waardgelders to help
maintain civil peace in
their jurisdictions; The
commanders of...
-
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...
-
schutterijen in the cities, with the
authority for
local authorities to hire
waardgelders (auxiliary
mercenary troops) in case of need; the
right to political...
-
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...
- 1617
which authorized city
governments to
raise private armies,
called waardgelders. The Counter-Remonstrants, the
enemies of the
Remonstrants opposed this...
-
authorizing city
governments to
create their own
mercenary armies, the
waardgelders, to
maintain public order.
August 8 – King
James of
England and Scotland...
- forces,
called waardgelders, to keep the peace. This was seen by the
stadtholder as a
dangerous potential threat,
because the
waardgelders might come into...
