COUNT

See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP DE

See also:

• MONTMORENCY
• MONTMORENCY, ANNE
• MONTMORENCY, MATHIEU JEAN FELICITE DE

MONTMORENCY

See also:

• HORN
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• COUNT PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY HORN

HORN  of (1518-1568), a man of illustrious descent and great possessions in the Nether-lands, became in succession under Charles V. and Philip II. stadtholder of Gelderland, admiral of Flanders and knight of the Golden Fleece . In 1559 he commanded the stately fleet which conveyed Philip II. from the Netherlands to Spain, and he remained at the Spanish court till 1563 . On his return he placed himself with the prince of Orange and Count Egmontat the head of the party which opposed the policy of Cardinal Granvella . When Granvella retired the three great nobles continued to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition and of Spanish despotic rule into the Netherlands . But though Philip appeared for a time to give way, he had made up his mind to visit the opponents of his policy with ruthless punishment . The regent, Margaret, duchess of Parma, was replaced by the duke of Alva, who entered the Netherlands at the head of a veteran army and at once began to crush all opposition with a merciless hand . Orange fled from the country, but Egmont and Horn, despite his warning, decided to remain and face the storm . They were both seized, tried and condemned as traitors, and were executed on the 5th of June 1568 in the great square before the town hall at Brussels . See biographical notices in A . J. van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden (Haarlem, 1851–1879) ; J . Kok, Vaderlandsch Woordenboek (Amsterdam, 1785–1799) ; also bibliography to chaps. vi. vii. and xix. in Cambridge Modern History, vol. iii. pp . 798-809 (1904) .