Frisian peasant rebellion

Frisian peasant rebellion
Painting of Pier Gerlofs Donia, 1622
Date 1515–1523 Location Netherlands Result suppression of the rebellion
Belligerents
Habsburg Netherlands	Arumer Zwarte Hoop Charles II, Duke of Guelders
Commanders and leaders
Charles V Margaret of Austria	Pier Gerlofs Donia Wijerd Jelckama Maarten van Rossum
Strength
	4,000 (maximum)

Arumer Zwarte Hoop

Pier Gerlofs Donia
Wijerd Jelckama

The Arumer Zwarte Hoop (meaning "Black Heap of Arum"; Frisian: Swarte Heap) was an army of peasant rebels and mercenaries in Friesland fighting the Habsburg authorities from 1515 to 1523.

The leader was the farmer Pier Gerlofs Donia, whose farm had been burned down and whose kinfolk had been killed by a marauding Landsknecht regiment. Since the regiment had been employed by the Habsburg authorities to suppress the civil war of the Vetkopers and Schieringers, Donia put the blame on the authorities. After this he gathered angry peasants and some petty noblemen from Frisia and Gelderland and formed the Arumer Zwarte Hoop.

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