'C'estoit comme songe et mocquerie de parler de pardon.' Obstructie bij een pacificatiemaatregel (1566-1567)
‘C’estoit comme songe et mocquerie de parler de pardon.’ Blocking a peace initiative (1566-1567) After the Compromise of the Nobles and a spurt of iconoclasm in 1566, a general pardon — a collective amnesty — was repeatedly proposed as a strategy to pacify the Low Countries and reaffirm royal powe...
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| Language: | English |
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2004-01-01
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| Series: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review |
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| Online Access: | https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/4510 |
| Summary: | ‘C’estoit comme songe et mocquerie de parler de pardon.’ Blocking a peace initiative (1566-1567)
After the Compromise of the Nobles and a spurt of iconoclasm in 1566, a general pardon — a collective amnesty — was repeatedly proposed as a strategy to pacify the Low Countries and reaffirm royal power. This article describes how and why the suggestion to issue a general pardon provoked policymakers in Brussels and Madrid to place major obstacles in its path, even though the collective amnesty was in fact drawn up as a salutary measure. Alternate reactions from key players such as Philip II, Margarita de Parma, the Duke of Alba and Cardinal Granvelle actually corresponded to well-defined patterns and conceptions of issuing a pardon.
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| ISSN: | 0165-0505 2211-2898 |