Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Matakan tsattsauran ra'ayi na Philip na Counter-Reformation ya haifar da tawayen Dutch a cikin lardunan Netherlandish na Calvinist, wanda ya haifar da barkewar Yakin Shekaru tamanin a 1568. A watan Janairun 1579 larduna bakwai na arewa sun kafa Protestant Union of Utrecht, wanda ya ayyana 'yancin kai daga reshen Habsburgs na Spain a matsayin Jamhuriyar Unitedasar Netherlands guda bakwai ta Dokar Abjuration ta 1581. Rukunin Habsburgs na Spain zai iya riƙe mulkin kawai a kan ɓangaren Katolika na Kudancin Netherlands, wanda aka kammala bayan Faduwar Antwerp
a shekara ta 1585.