Jan van Hembyse
Jan van Hembyse or Hembyze ( Ghent , 9 July 1513 – Ghent , 8 August 1584 ) was a Flemish politician and popular leader , with a demagogic tendency , who together with François van Ryhove brought about the Calvinist Republic of Ghent and for two periods ( 1577-1578 and 1583-1584 ) led that regime in the early stage of the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years' War as it unfolded in the County of Flanders . 
<triplet> Jan van Hembyse <subj> 8 August 1584 <obj> date of death