Maximiliaan van Egmond

Biography:

Maximilian of Egmont was Count of Buren and Leerdam and Stadtholder of Friesland from 1540 until 1548. He was the son of Floris van Egmont whom he succeeded as count after his father's death in 1539. He studied Ancient Greek at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1516 and was a friend of the 16th century intellectual Erasmus.