The religious clauses of the pacification implicitly recognized the right of the largely Calvinist provinces of Holland and Zeeland the centres of the military resistance to order their own house as long as they did not attempt to advance their faith beyond their borders.
The union moved away from the religious settlement embodied in the Pacification of Ghent of two years before and toward a predominance of the Calvinists and their monopoly of public practice of religion in the key provinces of Holland and Zeeland.
The king, who was attending to his religious duties at Kummanni (Comana), entrusted their pacification to one of his generals.
There are two sorts of religious edicts that alternate during the wars: edicts of pacification and provisional tolerance, and edicts of concord and union.
It took place during the reconquest by the armies of Philip II of Spain of the Burgundian Netherlands, whose different provinces had united in 1576 under the Pacification of Ghent to drive out the foreign troops out and to grant religious liberty to Protestants.
The Pacification of Ghent called for the expulsion of Spanish troops from the Low Countries, the restoration of provincial and local prerogatives, and an end to the persecution of Calvinists or anyone else for religious reasons.
Pacification of Ghent, (Nov. 8, 1576), declaration by which the northern and southern provinces of the Low Countries put aside their religious difference and united in revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs.
What's happened to Pacification?
"Pacification" meant only more violence and dislocation.
His pacification of Mosul proved short-lived.
