Edict of 1577
{{Short description|1577 edict of the Habsburg Netherlands}}
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The Edict of 1577 (also known as the Perpetual Edict{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} or the Eternal Edict{{sfn|Duke|2003|p=189}}{{sfn|van Gelderen|2002|p=47}}{{sfn|Wernham|1968|p=276}}{{sfn|Brouwer|2016|p=223}}{{sfn|Nexon|2009|p=216}}) was signed on 12 February 1577{{sfn|Duke|2003|p=189}} in Marche-en-Famenne by the new Spanish governor-general of the Habsburg Netherlands, Don John of Austria. This accord provided for the removal of Spanish forces from the Netherlands.{{sfn|Lovett|1982}}{{sfn|Doran|2000|p=33}} In addition, the edict agreed to uphold the tenets of the Pacification of Ghent in exchange for an understanding that the States General would uphold the monarchy and Catholicism.{{sfn|Duke|2003|p=189}} The edict was initially well received.{{sfn|Duke|2003|p=189}} However, in July 1577, Don John began plans for a new campaign against the Dutch rebels. Elizabeth I approved of both the Pacification of Ghent and the Edict of 1577, therefore offering loans and military aid to the Dutch. When it became clear that John would go back on his agreement, Elizabeth planned to defend the provinces with aid of £100,000 and troops against John if he attacked.{{sfn|Lovett|1982}}{{sfn|Doran|2000|p=33}}
English money paid for John Casimir, Count Palatine of Simmern, a Calvinist zealot, to lead mercenaries as far as Brabant,Pieter Geyl History of the Dutch speaking people but the money supply dried up.
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References
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| last = Doran
| first = Susan
| title = Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy 1558–1603
| publisher=Routledge
| date = 2000
| isbn = 0-415-15355-7
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- {{cite journal |last=Lovett |first=Albert |title=The General Settlement of 1577: An Aspect of Spanish Finance in the Early Modern Period |journal=Historical Journal |volume=25 |number=1 |pages=1–22 |date= 1982 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X00009833 |s2cid=154057053 }}
- {{cite book |last=Nexon |first=D.H. |title=The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4008-3080-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNff4qSjAMsC&pg=PA216 }}
- {{cite book |last=van Gelderen |first=M. |title=The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=Ideas in Context |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-521-89163-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXK2fxzn2lAC&pg=PA47 }}
- {{cite book |last=Wernham |first=R.B. |title=The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 3, Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559-1610 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1968 |isbn=978-0-521-04543-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA276 }}
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External links
- [http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/?s=Revolt+of+the+Netherlands The Revolt of the Spanish Netherlands]
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