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Claude de Berlaymont
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Claude de Berlaymont (or Claudius van Barlaymont), lord of Haultpenne (ca. 1550 – 14 July 1587), was a Flemish military commander in Spain's Army of Flanders during the Eighty Years' War.
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Claude de Berlaymont | |
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![]() The city of Breda is overrun and destroyed by Claude von Berlaymont's soldiers, known as Haultepenne's Fury | |
Nickname(s) | Haultpenne |
Born | circa 1550 |
Died | 14 July 1587 (aged 36-37) 's-Hertogenbosch |
Years of service | 1579–1587 |
Battles/wars | Siege of Breda (1581) Battle of Werl (1586) |
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