convinced the Count of Egmont not to evade arrest by Alba. (Egmont later was executed). As a member of the Council of State, Noircarmes advised against Alba's plans to institute new taxes (the Tenth Penny), but Alba ignored this advice. After the siege of the fortress of Mons (that had been captured by Louis of Nassau in May, 1572), Noircarmes was entrusted with the punishment of the citizens for their rebellion. Next he accompanied Alba to Mechelen and encouraged the Spanish soldiers to sack that city in October, 1572. Then he accompanied Alba's son Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba on his punitive expedition to Holland. He took part in the Siege of Haarlem in 1573. When Maximilien de Hénin-Liétard, the royal stadtholder of Holland, was taken prisoner of war by the rebels in October, 1573, Noircarmes was appointed his successor. However, at the Siege of Alkmaar he was wounded. He died of these wounds in Utrecht on 5 March 1574. Notes Sources "Philippe de Sainte-Aldegonde de Noircarmes" in: (1888) Mémoires et publications de la Société des sciences, des arts et des lettres du Hainaut, Maison Léon Lasseau, pp. 136–137 External links Noircarmes, Philippe Sainte-Aldegonde People of the Eighty Years' War 1530 births 1574 deaths