Editing Hendrick van Brederode (section)

== Biography ==
[[Image:Heerlijkheid_Vianen_-_Hendrik_van_Brederode_-_AR_Daalder.jpg|thumb|160px|Sovereignty Vianen, AR [[Thaler]], struck under Hendrik van Brederode]]
[[Image:Blason Thierry de Brederode (selon Gelre).svg|thumb|160px|Brederode coat of arms]] 
[[File:Bor-Nederlantsche-Oorloghen 9142.tif|thumb|160px|Engraving of Hendrick van Brederode]]

Hendrik van Brederode was born at [[Brussels]] as son of [[Reinoud III van Brederode]] and Philippote [[House of La Marck|von der Marck]]. He became a convert to the Reformed faith and placed himself at the side of the [[William the Silent|Prince of Orange]] and [[Count of Egmont]] in resisting the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition and Spanish despotism into the [[Netherlands]]. In 1566, he was one of the founders of the confederacy of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights and liberties of the country by signing a document known as the [[Compromise of Nobles]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Brederode, Henry |volume=4 |page=487}}</ref>

On 5 April that year, Brederode accompanied to the palace a body of 300 knights, for whom he acted as the spokesman, to present to the regent, [[Margaret of Parma]], a petition setting forth their grievances. It was at a banquet at the Hotel Culemburg on 8 April, presided over by Bréderode, that the sobriquet of [[les Gueux]], or "the Beggars," was first given to the opponents of Spanish rule. Bréderode, the "Grote Geus" or ''Big Beggar'', was banished from the Netherlands by [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba|Alva]], and died in exile shortly afterwards at the early age of thirty-six.<ref name="EB1911"/>

In March of the year 1567, backed by his friend [[Lenaert Jansz de Graeff]], his brother [[Dirck Jansz Graeff]] and a large part of the bourgeoisie, Brederode became the ''Generalcaptain'' of the city of [[Amsterdam]]. But in the next month, Brederode and Lenaert Jansz de Graeff departed and the Spanish General [[Philip of Noircarmes|Philippe de Noircarmes]] became the military commander of Amsterdam.<ref>[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu02_01/molh003nieu02_01_1045.htm Lenaert Jansz de Graeff at the DBNL (nl)]</ref>

Hendrik was the descendant of an ancient family active in the affairs of war and peace, which had for some centuries been settled at [[Castle Brederode]] in Holland north-west of the village of Santpoort and after 1418 at [[Batestein Castle]] in Vianen.  
In 1557, he married [[Amalia of Neuenahr]], daughter of [[Gumprecht of Neuenahr]].