Did French Sociopath Balthasar Gerard, receive his Reward for Assassinating William of Orange (of Holland)?

[Leonardo Been]

Did the Sociopath Balthasar Gerard receive his Reward for Assassinating
William of Orange ('William the Silent,' first leader of the Netherlands?)

(see image (in the likeness of the Sociopath Roger Gonnet):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balthasar_Gerards.png )


'On 15 March, 1580, [the Sociopath King Philip II of Spain] had offered a
reward of 25,000 crowns to anyone who killed William the Silent, to whom
he referred as a "pest on the whole of Christianity and the enemy of the
human race". '


Did the Sociopath Balthasar Gerard receive his Reward for Assassinating
William of Orange (of Holland)?

'At his trial, Gérard was sentenced to be brutally – even by the
standards of that time – killed. The magistrates decreed that the right
hand of Gérard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh
should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that
he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his
bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken
off.[6]

'Gérard's torture was also very brutal. On the first night of his
imprisonment Gérard was hung on a pole and lashed with a whip. After that
his wounds were smeared with honey and a goat was brought to lick the
honey off his skin with his rough tongue. The goat however refused to
touch the body of the sentenced. After this and other tortures he was left
to pass the night with his hands and feet bound together, like a ball, so
sleep would be difficult. During the following three days, he was
repeatedly mocked and hung on a pole with his hands tied behind his back.
Then a weight of 300 metric pounds (150 kg) was attached to each of his
big toes for half an hour. After this half hour Gérard was fitted with
shoes made of well-oiled, uncured dog skin; the shoes were two fingers
shorter than his feet. In this state he was put before a fire. When the
shoes warmed up, they contracted, crushing the feet inside them to stumps.
When the shoes were removed, his half-broiled skin was torn off. After his
feet were damaged, his armpits were branded. After that he was dressed in
a shirt soaked in alcohol. Then burning bacon fat was poured over him and
sharp nails were stuck between the flesh and the nails of his hands and
feet. Gérard is said to have remained calm [like a true Sociopath] during
his torture. On 14 July 1584, Gérard was executed.[7][8]

'Aftermath

'Philip II gave Gérard's parents, instead of the reward of 25,000 crowns,
three country estates in Lievremont, Hostal, and Dampmartin in the
Franche-Comté, and the family was raised to the peerage. Philip II would
later offer the estates to Philip William, Orange's son and the next
Prince of Orange, provided the prince continue to pay a fixed portion of
the rents to the family of his father's murderer; the notion was rejected
with scorn. The estates remained with the Gérard family. The apostolic
vicar Sasbout Vosmeer tried to have Gérard canonized, to which end he
removed the dead man's head and showed it to church officials in Rome, but
the idea was rejected.'

file: Balthasar Gérard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.html
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