Louis de Boisot

Louis de Boisot
Louis de Boisot by Cornelis Visscher.
Born1530 (1530)
Died(1576-05-27)27 May 1576

Louis de Boisot, also called Lodewijk van Boisot in Dutch, was a noble from the Duchy of Brabant and an admiral of the Zeeland Geuzen (Sea Beggars) early in the Eighty Years' War. In October 1574 de Boisot's beggar fleet lifted the Siege of Leiden.

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