The title character became a national hero following victories at Saint-Quentin and Gravelines [grah-veh-leen], but was killed along with Count Horn by the despotic Duke of Alva.  
At the beginning of this work, a group of men including Jetter and Soest have a shooting competition with crossbows.  In the last scene, Silva reads the title character's death sentence, after which that title character inquires about the fate of his secretary Richard and his attendant Adolphus before asking Ferdinand to leave him.  At the conclusion an apparition of Freedom, in the form of a woman named Clara who had committed suicide, shows up to bestow a wreath on the title character, who is to die even though he's a member of the Knights of the Golden Fleece.  The title character became a national hero following victories at Saint-Quentin and Gravelines [grah-veh-leen], but was killed along with Count Horn by the despotic Duke of Alva.  FTP, name this play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to which Beethoven wrote a notable overture.
At the beginning of this work, a group of men including Jetter and Soest have a shooting competition with crossbows.  
Egmont