Wigbolt Ripperda

Portrait of Wigbolt Ripperda by Herman Collenius
Wigbolt Ripperda inspiring the citizens of Haarlem in the Doelen not to give in to the Spanish army.

Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (1535? – 16 July 1573[1]) was the city governor of Haarlem when the city was under siege by the Spanish army in the Eighty Years' War.


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