It remains to be unfolded whether her character and endowments, as exemplified in her new position, were to justify the choice of Philip.
The members of the state council, as already observed, were Berlaymont, Viglius, Arras, Orange, and Egmont.
The first was, likewise, chief of the finance department.

Most of the Catholic writers described him as a noble of loyal and highly honorable character.

Those of the Protestant party, on the contrary, uniformly denounced him as greedy, avaricious, and extremely sanguinary.

That he was a brave and devoted soldier, a bitter papist, and an inflexible adherent to the royal cause, has never been disputed.

The Baron himself, with his four courageous and accomplished sons, were ever in the front ranks to defend the crown against the nation.