Egmont's crypt

The crypt contains the remains of Lamoral, Count of Egmont and his wife Sabina of Bavaria.

[1] Around 1563, Lamoral had a burial crypt built underneath the Church of Zottegem for his grandfather and mother.

The remains of Lamoral himself were added to that crypt in 1568 after he was beheaded on Brussels' Grand-Place/Grote Markt.

His wife Sabina of Bavaria († 1578) and his sons Philip († 1590) and Charles († 1620) were also buried there.

[6][7][8][9] In 2017, new genetic research brought to the fore that Egmont's remains had not been damaged by the Spaniards directly after his beheading, but many centuries later.