Brederode declared that he had no objection to the name and was quite willing to be "a beggar" in the cause of his country and his king.
It was destined to be a name famous in history.

Immediately loud cries arose from the assembled guests, until the great hall echoed with the shouts of _Vivent les Gueux_.

From this date onwards the confederates were known as "les gueux," and they adopted a coarse grey dress with the symbols of beggarhood--the wallet and the bowl--worn as the _insignia_ of their league.

It was the beginning of a popular movement, which made rapid headway among all classes.

A medal was likewise struck, which bore on one side the head of the king, on the other two clasped hands with the inscription--_Fideles au roy jusques a la besace_.
Thus was the opposition to the tyrannical measures of the government organising itself in the spring of 1566.