Medal - Hugo de Groot (Holland Nederland Pays-Bas) ND

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Silouette of the map of the Netherlands, and a symbol of a lion (used in Dutch heraldry for centuries). Surrounded by the name of the country in French, Dutch and English

Script: Latin

Lettering:
HOLLAND
NEDERLAND
PAYS-BAS

Translation: Holland Netherlands Low Countries

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Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot and Hugo de Groot , was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the controversies over religious policy of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France.