The wedding was celebrated at Brill with Calvinist rites.

The union, whether legitimate or not, was undoubtedly one of great happiness.
Meanwhile the governor-general, unable to obtain any financial help from Spain, had managed to persuade the provinces, always in dread of the excesses of the mutinous soldiery, to raise a loan of 1,200,000 guilders to meet their demands for arrears of pay.

Requesens was thus enabled to put in the late summer a considerable army into the field and among other successes to gain possession of the Zeeland islands, Duiveland and Schouwen.

On September 27 a force under the command of the veteran Mondragon waded across the shallow channels dividing the islands, which fell into their hands.

Zierikzee, the chief town of Schouwen, made a stout resistance, but had at length to surrender (July, 1576).