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The city of Leiden had plenty of food stored for the siege when it started in October 1573. The siege was very difficult for the Spanish, because the soil was too loose to dig trenches, and the city's defense works were hard to break. Defending Leiden was a Dutch States rebel army consisting of English, Scottish, and Huguenot French troops.
The film is inspired by the legendary story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain. [ 2 ] The filmmakers admitted that much of the story is fiction, such as the execution of her daughter, and the relationship with her youngest daughter.
1573 siege of Haarlem Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer (1526–1588) was a wood merchant of Haarlem , who became a legendary folk hero for her fearless defense of the city against the Spanish invaders during the siege of Haarlem in 1573.
The siege of Haarlem was an episode of the Eighty Years' War. From 11 December 1572 to 13 July 1573 an army of Philip II of Spain laid bloody siege to the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands , whose loyalties had begun wavering during the previous summer.
In April 1574, Francisco de Valdés halted the siege of Leiden, to face the invading rebel army led by Louis of Nassau and Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg (brothers of Prince William of Orange), but the Spanish forces commanded by General Don Sancho d'Avila reached them first, leading to the Battle of Mookerheyde. [7]
Siege of Leiden Battle of Delft William the Silent or William the Taciturn ( Dutch : Willem de Zwijger ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje ), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years ...
Relief of Leiden by the 'Sea Beggars' on flat-bottomed boats, on 3 October 1574, during the Siege of Leiden. Otto van Veen, 1574. Geuzen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣøːzə(n)]; lit. ' The Beggars '; French: Les Gueux) was a name assumed by the confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles, who from 1566 opposed Spanish rule in the Netherlands.
Crescent-shaped Geuzen medal, cast silver, tooled, about 1570, with the slogan "Liever Turks dan Paaps" ("Rather Turkish than Papist").. In the first stages of the War, the government had already succeeded in putting down the Beeldenstorm and several radical Calvinist insurrections in 1566–1567 (notably in Valenciennes, Tournai and Oosterweel), with Alba executing the leading opposition ...