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however became aware of the plot and had the city gates sealed, every suspicious person rounded up and every house searched. Andries
Coppier was caught and tortured to death without revealing names. The four leaders of the plot had taken refuge at the house of Coppier, who hid them just before her
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and Alphen, and
Margaretha van Roon. Her brothers and half-brothers all became active members of the Dutch rebellion. Coppier married Joachim Burgher, a polymath known as "Polites" from
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from within by infiltrating the city with soldiers who would take shelter in houses and inns. Both
Coppier's brother Andries and her husband took part in the plot. The Spanish governor
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house was searched. Her stoicism during the search saved these people and possibly many others who could have been revealed under torture. She died in
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painted the scene in which the
Spanish soldiers are seated around the table in which one of the rebel leaders is hidden.
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of 1647. In 1839, J.I.D. Nepveu reworked Hooft's narrative into a historical novel and in 1842
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in 1541. After his death in 1569 she married his successor as scribe, Willem
Martini.
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20:Margaretha van Kalslagen 1797 - 1836
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155:People from Alphen aan den Rijn
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145:16th-century Dutch people
83:Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
29:Margaretha van Kalslagen
33:Dutch war of liberation
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38:Coppier was born in
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57:In 1574
63:Antwerp
52:Antwerp
72:Breda
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