Renneberg sold himself as one would sell a yoke of oxen, and his motives were no whit nobler than the cynical contract would indicate.
"See you not," said he in a private letter to a friend, "that this whole work is brewed by the Nassaus for the sake of their own greatness, and that they are everywhere provided with the very best crumbs.

They are to be stadholders of the principal provinces; we are to content ourselves with Overyssel and Drente.

Therefore I have thought it best to make my peace with the King, from whom more benefits are to be got." Jealousy and selfishness; then, were the motives of his "virtuous resolution." He had another, perhaps a nobler incentive.

He was in love with the Countess Meghen, widow of Lancelot Berlaymont, and it was privately stipulated that the influence of his Majesty's government should be employed to bring about his marriage with the lady.

The treaty, however, which Renneberg had made with Quislain le Bailly was not immediately carried out.