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No, he did not. It got us into 80 years of war with Spain, too! For all background information on the dispute, view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_years_war

Protestants in the Netherlands were violently hunted down and questioned by the Spanish Inquisition, often leading to executions on the stakes.

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