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Étienne-Constantin, baron de Gerlache
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Born December 26, 1785 • Luxembourg
Died February 10, 1871 (aged 85) • Brussels • Belgium
Subjects Of Study Belgium • Netherlands
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Pieter Geyl
Dutch historian
Johan van der Does
Dutch statesman
Pirenne, Henri
Henri Pirenne
Belgian historian
William III, detail from an oil painting by Nikolaas Pieneman, 1849; in the collection of the Royal Military Academy, Breda, Neth.
William III
king of The Netherlands
William I
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman
The Great Condé, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1662
Louis II de Bourbon, 4 prince de Condé
French general and prince
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders
Dutch politician
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte
prime minister of the Netherlands and secretary-general of NATO
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician
William I
William I
king of The Netherlands
Silvio Berlusconi and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Dutch politician
Bernhard, prince of the Netherlands, prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld
prince of the Netherlands
Louis of Nassau, panel portrait by an unknown artist, 1574; in the Orange Nassau Museum, Delft, Neth.
Louis of Nassau
Dutch political leader
Count van Egmond, painting by an unknown artist, 16th century; in the German National Museum, Nürnberg.
Lamoraal, graaf van Egmond
Dutch noble
Filips van Montmorency, count van Horne
Dutch statesman
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper
Dutch theologian and statesman
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud
Dutch architect

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