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Namen van de afgebeelde personen volgens bijgevoegde silhouette-tekening: 1. The Sea Beggars marching into Leiden as liberators of the besieged city. 2. Minerva, goddess of arms during the relief of Leiden. 3. Jacob van der Does, military advisor and cousin of commanding officer Jan van der Does. Together with Jan van Hout, Jacob and Jan van der Does were referred to as the ‘hawks’: the more militant leading figures of the relief of Leiden. 4. Jan van der Does, commanding officer and ‘hawk’ during the siege and relief of Leiden, 5. Jan van Hout, city administrator and a third ‘hawk’ in the relief of Leiden. 6/7 Soldiers erect a gallow, by order of the Leiden military governor Van Broncorst. 8. Plague doctors, with herbs that would prevent them from catching the plague themselves in their beak-like masks. 9. Merchant, inspired by the painting Portrait of an African man (circa 1525-1530) van Jan Janz. Mostaert. 10. Mayor Van der Werf putting forward his arm, referring to the traditional iconography in which he is depicted offering his body to the hungry citizens of Leiden. 11. Magdalena Moons, a lady from The Hague, fiancée of the Spanish commanding officer Francisco de Valdés. She is holding him back from attacking the city of Leiden. 12. Francisco de Valdés, Spanish commanding officer during both the sieges of Leiden in 1573 and 1574. 13. Spanish soldier. 14. Leiden citizen trying to catch a carrier pigeon. Would the note on this pigeon have news on the approaching Beggars? 15. Dirck van den Broncorst, military governor. He had the gallow erected in Leiden in 1574 to threaten the Leiden citizens with death if they considered to surrender. He died of the plague himself. 16. Andries Allertsz., commanding officer of the militia and freebooters. He died during a sortie near Leiderdorp in the night of 25 May 1574. He was succeeded up by Jan van der Does. The other figures are soldiers and the suffering people of Leiden.
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