BREDERODE, HENRY, VISCOUNT OF ), a descendant of the ancient counts of Holland, was born at Brussels in Dec. 1531, and died at Recklinghausen on Feb. 15, 1568. In 1566 he was one of the founders of the confederacy of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights and liberties of the Netherlands and to resist the expected introduction of the Inqui sition by signing a document known as "the compromise." This document is believed to have been the work of Sante-Aldegonde, with the assistance of Louis of Nassau and Brederode. Brederode was gay and popular, reckless and generous, and one of the principal leaders of the movement. On April 5 of that year 25o confederates assembled at the Hotel Culemburg and marched to the palace, led by Louis and Brederode, to present to the regent, Margaret of Parma, a petition setting forth their grievances, called "the request." Refusing, in the following August, to take an oath of loyalty demanded by Margaret of Parma, Brederode made unsuccessful attempts to raise an army at Antwerp and Amster dam; in April 1567 he fled to Emden, where, on hearing of the appointment of the Duke of Alva, he signed a second compromise with seven other exiles. After his death in 1568, Alva passed a sentence of banishment and confiscation on him.
See M. C. Van den Hall, Heinrich von Brederode