Sea Beggars
When were the Sea Beggars?
The Sea Beggars were pirates who made a living in the 1560s from capturing North Sea shipping. On 1 April 1572, six hundred Sea Beggars seized by surprise the small harbor city of Brill.
Sea Beggars Media
- Vroom Hendrick Cornelisz Battle of Haarlemmermeer.jpg
Battle between Dutch and Spanish ships on the Haarlemmermeer, 26 May 1573. Sailing before the wind from the right are the Spanish ships, identified by the flags with a red cross. Approaching from the left are the ships of the Sea Beggars. Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom.
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Relief of Leiden by the 'Sea Beggars' on flat-bottomed boats, on 3 October 1574, during the Siege of Leiden. Otto van Veen, 1574.
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Traditional emblem of the Geuzen
- Willem II van der Marck Lumey.jpg
William II de la Marck (1542–1578), a leader of the Sea Beggars
- The Watergeuzen leaders William van der Marck, Willem Bloys van Treslong, Lenaert Jansz de Graeff (Capture of Brielle, NL, April 1st 1572).jpg
Historic parade in Den Briel to celebrate the 540th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle on April 1, 2012. The leaders of the sea beggars, William II de la Marck, Lord Lumey (middle), Willem Bloys van Treslong (left) and Lenaert Jansz de Graeff (right).
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Geuzen medal, cast silver, tooled, about 1570, with the slogans LIVER TVRCX DAN PAVS ("Rather Turkish than Papist") and EN DESPIT DE LA MES ("In spite of the Mass")
- Vroom Hendrick Cornelisz Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602.jpg
Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602, 1617, oil on canvas by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom and Cornelis Vroom
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Silver medal commemorating the Capture of Brielle in 1572 by the Sea Beggars
- Slag op de Zuiderzee, 6 oktober 1573 (Abraham de Verwer, 1621).jpg