The Dutch Cooked And Ate Their Prime Minister.

The Dutch cooked and ate their Prime minister.

On August 20, 1672, one of the most shocking moments in Dutch political history took place.

Actually, it is one of the most shocking moments in world political history.

The man who was perhaps the most important political figure in the Dutch Republic was murdered by a mob of Dutch citizens…and then eaten.

The events that led up to this were some of the most significant in the history of the Netherlands.

The murder of Johan de Witt was the culmination of several large-scale political trends that the Netherlands experienced in the 17th century. It didn’t happen randomly, and it didn’t take place in a vacuum.

In the 17th century, the Netherlands was a republic. The largest and only major republic in Europe at the time. Known as the The United Provinces of the Netherlands, it was established in the 16th century when seven provinces controlled by Spain rebelled against Spanish rule and united to form a republic.

One of the leaders of the Dutch Rebellion was William the Silent, or as he is better known in the Netherlands, William of Orange. He was a member of the House of Nassau, was the Prince of Orange, and was the founded of the House of Nassau-Oragne.

As Dumas again writes, After having mangled, and torn, and completely stripped the two brothers, the mob dragged their naked and bloody bodies to an extemporized gibbet, where amateur executioners hung them up by the feet. Then came the most dastardly scoundrels of all, who not having dared to strike the living flesh, cut the dead in pieces, and then went about the town selling small slices of the bodies of Johan and Cornelius at ten sous a piece.

Some of the members of the mob took their murderous frenzy to the next level.  They reportedly cut the liver out of Johan de Witt, cooked it, and ate it.

Another man supposedly ate one of his eyeballs.

I should note that this behavior, while extreme, wasn’t as out of the ordinary as you would think for the time period.

When public executions took place, it wasn’t uncommon for spectators to take home a souvenir, which could often be a tooth or some other body part.

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