William II de la Marck

William II de la Marck

William II de la Marck (1542–1578) (Dutch: "Willem II van der Marck") was Lord of Lumey and initially admiral of the Gueux de mer, the so-called 'sea beggars' who fought in the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), together with among others William the Silent, Prince of Orange-Nassau. He was the great-grandson of an equally notorious character, baron William de la Marck, nicknamed the "wild boar of the Ardennes".

Lumey has been accused of more than one atrocity, including the execution without trial (9 July 1572) of the so-called "martyrs of Gorcum", Dutch Roman Catholic monks and priests who eventually secured sanctity (1867).

Having conquered South-Holland and controlling North-Holland and Zeeland, on 20 June 1572 Lumey was appointed stadtholder of Holland and consequently Captain General, i.e. military Commander in Chief of the conquered territories. It has never been evidenced that Lumey recognized either the authority or the seniority of the Prince of Orange, who was eventually recognized as the leader of the Low Countries' uprising against the King Philip II of Spain.

In 1576 Lumey was banned from the Netherlands, either by the States of Holland or the Prince of Orange. He went back to his homeland, the Bishopric of Liège, where on 1 May 1578 he died in his residence on Mont-Saint-Martin. The cause of demise has never been established, but death by poisoning is still open as a possibility.

There is evidence that the earthly remains of William van der Marck are stowed away in a casket, that is bricked up in the Arenberg-family crypt under the former Capuchin Monastery Church at Enghien, today located in Belgium.

External links

* [http://cms.dordrecht.nl/dordt?nav=holpwCsHaKpPRotbBrtbBGfBAQ Biography (Dutch language)]


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