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    Jan van Hembyse or Hembyze (Ghent, 9 July 1513 – Ghent, 8 August 1584) was a Flemish politician and popular leader, with a demagogic tendency, who together...
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    magistracy under the leadership of two prominent Calvinists, Jan van Hembyse and François van Ryhove performed a coup d'état with the tacit approval of the...
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  • Netherlands. October 28, 1577: A coup was led by radical Calvinists Jan van Hembyse and François van Ryhove against the stadtholder of Flanders, Philippe III de...
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    fatherland. Datheen was one of the Calvinist preachers who supported Jan van Hembyse, the popular leader of the Calvinist Republic of Ghent, in 1577 and...
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    evacuated both cities. Meanwhile, radical Calvinists led by Jan van Hembyse and François van Ryhove [nl] had seized power in Ghent on 28 October 1577, turning...
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