* Albert I, Duke of Prussia ( 1490 – 1568 ), first Duke of Prussia

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.

* Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, Voivode of Moldavia ( 1552 – 1561 and 1564 – 1568 )

* 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain ( d. 1568 )

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

* 1568 – Juan Bautista Comes, Spanish composer ( d. 1643 )

* 1568 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( d. 1625 )

# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.

The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg | Ludwig Herzog von Württemberg ( ruled 1568 – 1593 )

* 1525 – 1568: Albert I

* 1568 – 1618: Albert II Frederick co-inheritor ( son of )

* 1568 – 1571: Joachim I / II Hector co-inheritor ( also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1625 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( b. 1568 )

* 1490 – Albert, Duke of Prussia ( d. 1568 )

* 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( d. 1568 )

* 1568 – Eighty Years ' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.

# Sophie ( 6 June 1568 – 7 December 1622 ), married in 1582 to Elector Christian I of Saxony

* 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.

* 1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

* 1522 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman ( d. 1568 )

* November 18 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman ( d. 1568 )

* Lamoral, Count of Egmont ( 1522 – 1568 ), the best known member of the Egmont family

Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere ( November 18, 1522 – June 5, 1568 ) was a general and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years ' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.

******* Lamoral, Count of Egmont ( 1522 – 1568 ), 4th Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre and Steenhuyze, 11th Lord of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam, stadtholder of Flanders and Artois etc.

** Henry, Count of Bréderode ( died 1568 )

## in Kassel on 11 November 1568 to Count Daniel of Waldeck.

To deal with the emerging problems, King Philip II of Spain named Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa as the new Viceroy of Peru in 1568.

# Maria ( 12 November 1568 – 10 May 1625 ), married on 2 December 1588 to Count John Louis I of Nasau-Wiesbaden-Idstein.

Philip de Montmorency ( 1524 – 5 June 1568, Brussels ) was also known as Count of Horn or Hoorne or Hoorn.

Nowadays, a statue erected on the Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel Square in Brussels commemorates the Counts of Egmont and Horn, in historical overview usually mentioned together as " Egmond en Hoorne " and hailed as the first leaders of the Dutch revolt, as the predecessors of William of Orange, who grew to importance and obtained the leadership after their execution, and who was assassinated in 1584 in Delft, having succeeded in liberating parts of The Netherlands in the early years of the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ).

Many high-ranking officials were arrested on various pretexts, among them the Counts of Egmont and Horne who were executed for treason on 5 June 1568, while attesting to their Catholic orthodoxy on the scaffold.

Egmont and Horn were decapitated on 5 June 1568 in the great square of the Grote Markt ( Market Place ) before the town hall at Brussels.

Nowadays, a statue erected on the Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel Square, near the Large Market Square in Brussels commemorates the Counts of Egmont and Hoorne, in historical overview usually mentioned together as " Egmond en Hoorne " and hailed as the first leaders of the Dutch revolt, as the predecessors of William of Orange, who grew to importance and obtained the leadership after their execution, and who was assassinated in 1584 in Delft, having succeeded in liberating parts of The Netherlands in the early years of the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ).

Jan Brueghel the Elder (; 1568 – 13 January 1625 ) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger.

The Peasant Wedding, by Flemish people | Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1567 or 1568

** Willem Key, Flemish painter ( died 1568 )

* Jan Brueghel the Elder ( Flemish, 1568 – 1625 )

In the eighty years between 1568, when the Netherlands became a loose affiliation of Walloon and Flemish provinces, and 1648, when the Treaty of Münster was signed with the Spanish, the Dutch had been practicing the delicate art of cobbling together different ethnicities and religious faiths into a viable economic entity.