Claude de Berlaymont

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.

Claude de Berlaymont
The city of Breda is overrun and destroyed by Claude von Berlaymont's soldiers, known as Haultepenne's Fury
Nickname(s)Haultpenne
Borncirca 1550
Died14 July 1587 (aged 36-37)
's-Hertogenbosch
Years of service1579–1587
Battles/warsSiege of Breda (1581) Battle of Werl (1586)
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