Editing Disembowelment (section)

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On 10 July 1584, [[Balthasar Gérard]] shot and killed [[William the Silent|William of Orange]], who had advocated for [[Spanish Netherlands|Dutch independence]] from the [[Philip II of Spain|King of Spain]].<ref name=jardine>{{Cite book| author= Jardine, Lisa| author-link= Lisa Jardine|title= The Awful End of William the Silent: The First Assassination of A Head of State With A Handgun |place= London |publisher= HarperCollins |year= 2005 |isbn= 0-00-719257-6 }}</ref> The assassin was interrogated and condemned to death almost immediately.<ref>{{cite book|last=Motley|first=John L.|title=The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Vol. 3|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4836|author-link=John Lothrop Motley|year=1856}}</ref> On 14 July, after suffering various tortures during each of the five days since the assassination, Gérard was disemboweled and [[dismembered]] while still alive, after which his heart was torn out and then he was beheaded by his Dutch executioners.<ref name=jardine/><ref>{{Cite book|last= Foucault|author-link= Michel Foucault|first =Michel |title=[[Discipline and Punish]] |chapter = The Spectacle of the scaffold. }}</ref>