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2 unusual facts about Frans Anneessens


Frans Anneessens

He was decapitated on the Grand Place in Brussels, because of his involvement with uprisings within the Austrian Netherlands.

Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié

When the labour guilds of Antwerp and Brussels protested vigorously against the government taxes and tried to assert their ancient privileges, Prié caused the aged Frans Anneessens, syndic or chairman of one of these guilds, to be arrested and put to death (1719).



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