2-1719), Alexander's father, and JOZEF
(1688-1739). They were formerly known as "Breda," but this apparently is
incorrect, though it occurs as a signature on a picture by Jan Frans in
the Amsterdam gallery.

BREDERODE, HENRY, COUNT OF (1531-1568), was born at Brussels in 1531. He
was the descendant of an ancient race, which had for some centuries been
settled in Holland, and had taken an active part in the affairs of war
and peace. Count Henry became a convert to the Reformed faith and placed
himself at the side of the prince of Orange and Count Egmont in
resisting the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition and Spanish
despotism into the Netherlands. In 1566 he was one of the founders of
the confederacy of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights
and liberties of the country by signing a document known as "the
Compromise." On the 5th of April of that year Brederode accompanied to
the palace a body of 250 confederates, of whom he acted as the
spokesman, to present to the regent, Margaret of Parma, a petition
setting forth their grievances, called "the Request." It was at a
banquet at the Hotel Culemburg on the 8th of April, presided over by
Brederode, that the sobriquet of _les Gueux_, or "the Beggars," was
first given to the opponents of Spanish rule. Brederode was banished
from the Netherlands by Alva, and died in exile shortly afterwards at
the early age of thirty-six.

BREDOW, GOTTFRIED GABRIEL (1773-1814), German historian, was born at
Berlin on the 14th of December 1773, and became successively professor
at the universities of Helmstadt, Frankfort-on-Oder and Breslau. He died
at Breslau on the 5th of September 1814. Bredow's principal works are
_Handbuch der alien Geschichte, Geographic und Chronologie_ (Eutin,
1799; English trans., London, 1827); _Chronik des 19. Jahrhunderts_
(Altona, 1801); _Entwurf der Weltkunde der Alten_ (Altona, 1816);
_Weltgeschichte in Tabellen_ (Altona, 1801; English trans, by J. Bell,
London, 1820); _Grundriss einer Geschichte der merkwurdigsten Welthandel
von 1796-1810_ (Hamburg, 1810).

Bredow's posthumous writings were edited by J.G. Kunisch (Breslau,
1823), who added a biography of the author.

BREDOW, a village of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, immediately
north of Stettin, of which it forms a suburb. Here are the Vulcan
iron-works and shipbuilding yards, where the liners "Deutschland"
(1900), the "Kaiserin Augusta Victoria" (1906), and the