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  Johan Van Oldenbarneveldt - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELDT (1547-1619), Dutch statesman, was born at Amersfoort on the 14th of September 1 547.
He was active in promoting the Union of Utrecht (1579) and the acceptance of the countship of Holland and Zeeland by William (1584) On the assassination of Orange it was at the proposal of Oldenbarneveldt that the youthful Maurice of Nassau was at once elected stadholder, captain-general and admiral of Holland.
Fortunately for the Netherlands the attention of Philip was at their time of greatest weakness riveted upon his contemplated invasion of England, and a respite was afforded which enabled Oldenbarneveldt to supply the lack of any central organized government by gathering into his own hands the control of administrative affairs.
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 Hotel Nassau
Nassau was founded by the British in the mid-17th century as Charles Towne, but it was renamed to Nassau after William III of Orange-Nassau in 1695.
Nassau was subjected to numerous attempted invasions by the Spanish during the late 18th century, and in 1776 it was captured and briefly held by American revolutionaries.
Maurice of Nassau (in Dutch ''Maurits van Nassau'') (14 November 1567–23 April 1625), Prince of Orange (1618–1625), son of William the Silent and Princess Anna of Saxony, was born at the castle of Dillenburg.
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 Kinderen van Johan IV van Nassau (1410-1475), Graaf van Nassau, (half-) Diez en Vianden, Heer van Breda, de Lek, ...
Kinderen van Johan IV van Nassau (1410-1475), Graaf van Nassau, (half-) Diez en Vianden, Heer van Breda, de Lek, Gageldonck en Hambroeck (1458,1459), Drossaard van Brabant in 1435 en Heusden in 1447, Ridder van het Gulden Vlies.
Johan IV regeert tezamen met zijn jongere broer in 1442, Graaf van Diez in 1443, ontvangt de Nederlandse bezittingen in 1447-1449, Maarschalk van Westfalen van 1449 tot 1450, verenigt alle landen van de Ottoonse Linie in 1450.
Johan IV trouwt op 7 februari 1440 met Gravin Maria van Loon-Heinsberg, Vrouwe van Herstal, Itteren en Meerssenhoven (1459), Steyn en Millen (1467).
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 The My Hero Project - Maurício de Nassau
Johan Maurtits van Nassau was born on June 17, 1604, in Dillenburg.
In 1635, the Count Maurício de Nassau (as he became known in Brazil), a very important Dutchman and member of the WIC (West India Company), was sent to Recife to govern.
Nassau is considered a hero because, as an invader, he didn't kill or oppress the people, but instead helped Recife, developing the culture and Recife's infrastructure.
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 The House of Orange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Heinrich von Nassau in Siegen, Ginsberg, Haiger and dem Westerwald 1303, in Dillenburg, Herborn and Beilstein (1328-43), died 1343.
Johann V (1455-1516), Count of Nassau, lord of Dillenburg, Siegen, Vianden and Dietz and Breda, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen 1504-1505, son of Johann IV von Nassau-Dillenburg in Vianden and Dietz (1448-1475), grandson of Engelbert I, married 1482 Elisabeth of Hesse (1466-1523).
She was married with the heir to the Nassau's of Frisia in 1652, Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz (1613-1664), he was her nephew in 3rd line, he was the grandson of the younger brother of William I of Orange.
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 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) was the principal architect of the independence of the republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands after the death of William the Silent.
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was born on Sept. 14, 1547, in the province of Utrecht, in the small city of Amersfoort, into a family of very minor nobility.
So Oldenbarnevelt turned to William's son, Maurice of Nassau, as a figure around whom to organize resistance to Leicester's attempts to build a political base in the United Provinces independent of the States General and the provincial States.
www.bookrags.com /biography/johan-van-oldenbarnevelt   (924 words)

  
 The Roll Family Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Johan Maurits "the Brasilian," grandnephew of William the Silent, was in Nieuw Holland for only seven years, 1637-1644, as military commander and Governor-General for the Dutch West India Company, but he left a mark on the land.
In 1643 Johan was recalled to the Netherlands because of all the money he had spent on these military, civic, scientific, and cultural activities.
Johan Maurits van Nassau Siegen 1604-1679, a Humanist Prince in Europe and Brazil.
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 Portuguese, the most successfull language in the world! | Antimoon Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
''Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, count of Nassau, was appointed as ruler of the Nieuw Holland (Dutch colonization enterprise in Brazil).
Johan Maurits (Dillenburg 17 juni 1604 — Bergendaal 20 december 1679), bijgenaamd de Braziliaan, was van 1606 tot 1652 graaf en daarna tot 1679 vorst van Nassau-Siegen en kapitein-generaal van Nederlands Brazilië.
Johan Maurits is vooral bekend geworden als de verlichte bestuurder van het noord-oostelijke gedeelte van Brazilië.
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 Details of Portrait of Johan, Count of Nassau-Siegen, ‘Johan the Younger’ (1583-1638) by Studio of Sir Anthony Van ...
Johan of Nassau-Siegen, also known as Johan the Younger, was typical of Van Dyck’s sitters on his return to the Netherlands from Italy in 1627.
Johan was an influential ruler of the small west German state of Nassau-Siegen, and was closely related to the house of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands.
Johan’s conversion was primarily the result of falling in love with the Catholic Princess Ernestine of Ligne, whom he married in 1618.
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 Sloop Johan Maurits van Nassau
Johan Maurits van Nassau (I) This gunboat was laid down as a result of a rather embarassing violation of Dutch territory.
To guard the safety of this region, the Johan Maurits van Nassau was laid down in Flushing.
A general evacuation of personell and ships was ordered, and the Johan Maurits van Nassau left Den Helder on May 14 along with the minelayers Jan van Brakel, Douwe Aukes and Nautilus and the torpedoboats G 13 and G 15.
www.netherlandsnavy.nl /JohMaur1.html   (547 words)

  
 Mauritshuis, The Hague
In 1631 the cabbage garden and oak wood adjoining the Binnenhof were sold to Johan Maurits van Nassau, former governor of Brazil, and Constantijn Huygens.
The interior of the house, which was built between 1633 and 1634, was the work of Pieter Post, but it was completely destroyed by fire in 1704.
Johan Maurits, an amateur of the arts who had brought back scholars and artists from Brazil, furnished his house with pictures and other objects relating to Brazil.
www.planetware.com /the-hague/mauritshuis-nl-zh-maur.htm   (481 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
In 1637 sent by the Dutch West Indian Company to be the physician to Johan Maurits of Nassau, the governor of the colony in Brasil, and physician to the colony.
Johan Maurits had gone out the year before to establish an organized government in what had been merely a military post; the original physician had died almost as soon as he arrived in Brasil.
In some sense that is not clear, Piso remained in the service of Johan Maurits for a short time after they returned to the Netherlands in 1644.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/piso.html   (315 words)

  
 Twinsite 2000 - Time
Two wooden forts (Fort Nassau and Fort Oranije) on the eastern shore of the Xingu River are built by colonists from Zeeland.
Johan Van Dort becomes governor of the city.
The WIC directorate decide to put a Colonial Governor at the head of the Brazilian colony or Nieuw Holland.32-year old Johan Maurits, count of Nassau — Siegen is the man selected for this office.
twinsite2000.tripod.com /timeline/xviia.htm   (474 words)

  
 The CODART List - News - Museums with Dutch art and Flemish art
During the CODART ACHT study trip to Sweden in September 2005, the participants were received in the residence of the Royal Netherlands embassy by Ambassador A.F. van Dongen.
According to documents in the Ministry's archives, the painting was donated to the Dutch legation in Stockholm on 17 January 1939 by Major Herbert Jacobsson of Gothenburg.
The only known reference to the painting in the literature is in the catalogue of a 1979 exhibition on Johan Maurits in Städisches Museum Haus Koekkoek (now B.C. Koekkoek Haus), Kleve, Germany, where it is illustrated as being in an unknown Swedish private collection.
www.codart.nl /news/107   (361 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
The expedition was under the leadership of Maurice of Nassau (of the Dutch ruling family), who appears to have assembled an intellectual court of sorts.
Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1604- 1679: A Humanist Prince in Europe and Brazil, (The Hague: Johan Maurits van Nassau Stichting, 1979), pp.
D.J. Struik, "Mauricio de Nassau, Scientific Maecenas in Brasil," Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Historia de Ciencia, 2 (1985), 21-6.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/markgraf.html   (348 words)

  
 Colonial Flags of Brazil
Johan Maurits van Nassau was governor-general of Dutch Brazil (also known as Nieuw Holland) and nicknamed "the Brazilian." Personally I find both guesses not very convincing.
Support for the Dutch increased with the government of Mauritius Van Nassau, who turned a blind eye to local politics and religion and stimulated the local economy.
When Mauritius van Nassau returned to Europe, the credits extended by the GWC to the sugar cane plantations were reduced and the local farmers started the Pernambucan revolution to expel the Dutch.
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 MauritsHuis EN - Collection > the building
The house was named after the man who had it built: Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen.
Johan Maurits was the governor of the Dutch colony in Brazil from 1636 to 1644, during which period this house was built for him.
He entrusted the project to the best architects of his day: Jacob van Campen and his assistant Pieter Post.
www.mauritshuis.nl /index.aspx?chapterid=2359   (76 words)

  
 United States and Brazil: The Dutch in Brazil / Brasil e Estados Unidos: Os Holandeses no Brasil
In 1637 Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679) arrived in Recife, the captaincy (a political and administrative division of colonial times) of Pernambuco, to become the first Dutch governor.
He was assigned by the Dutch West India Company to consolidate the Dutch settlements and economic interests in Brazil.
Nassau era amante de festas e admirador das belezas tropicais.
international.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-3-3.html   (809 words)

  
 National Hockey League Game Capsules - NHL
Slava Kozlov had a goal and three assists and Marian Hossa added a goal and two assists for the Thrashers, who have won three straight after dropping their previous two games.
Johan Hedberg, who started his third straight game, stopped 24 shots for Atlanta, which has won four straight against Boston.
Johan Holmqvist made 25 saves in the Lightning's fifth straight win over New York.
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 Prince Carl-Johan of Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Carl-Johan of Nassau (Carl-Johan Félix Julien Marc d'Aviano) born 15 August 1992, is the third son and youngest child of Prince Jean of Luxembourg (the second son of Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte) and Helene Vestur.
Carl-Johan was born as "Count Carl-Johan of Nassau", as Prince Jean had renounced his right of succession to the throne of Luxembourg prior to his marriage.
On 24 November 2004, Prince Jean's wife and children were granted the style and title of "HRH Prince(ss) of Nassau".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl-Johan,_Prince_of_Nassau   (208 words)

  
 John Maurice of Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The residence he built in The Hague is now called the Mauritshuis, and is now a museum of Dutch paintings.
The Brazilian author, Paulo Setúbal, wrote a historic novel about John Maurice and the Dutch settlement in Brazil, O Principe de Nassau ("The Prince of Nassau", translated into Dutch by R.
Slauerhoff in 1933 as "Johan Maurits van Nassau").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Maurice_of_Nassau   (731 words)

  
 Johan IV van Nassau and His Wife Maria van Loon-Heinsberg (Getty Museum)
Johan IV van Nassau and His Wife Maria van Loon-Heinsberg (Getty Museum)
Bernaert Van Orley, the preeminent Netherlandish tapestry designer of the early 1500s, conveyed the prestige and wealth of his subjects, Count Johan IV of Nassau and his wife, through a number of devices.
Called the "Nassau Genealogy," they depicted the splendor of the lineage of the House of Orange-Nassau from the 1200s to the 1500s.
www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=111985   (210 words)

  
 Maurice of Nassau
Maurice of Nassau (Maurits van Nassau) was born on 14 November 1567 as son of Willem of Nassau and Princess Anna of Saxony, at the castle of Dillenburg (Germany).
Maurice was raised in Dillenburg by his uncle Johan of Nassau (Jan the Old), lateron his life he studied in Heidelberg (Germany) and in Leiden.
Maurice died in 1625, and was succeeded by his brother Frederick Henry (1625-1647), under whom the unity of the Republic became more consolidated, and the prosperity of the States reached its climax.
www.historyofholland.com /maurice-of-nassau.html   (239 words)

  
 goDutch.com :: Family genealogy traces origin to 16th century German-born liberator
Indications are that he was an officer in the liberation army of the Nassau brothers who unsuccessfully in-vaded the country in 1568.
Their nephew, Count Wil-lem Lodewijk van Nassau, the stadtholder of Fries-land, soon appointed Jacob Lautenbach as commissioner in charge of enlisting men for the provincial army.
The 1585 appointment was followed seven years later with Lautenbach’s promotion to the office of gerechtscholt, the presidency of the militairy court.
www.godutch.com /windmill/newsItem.asp?id=590   (689 words)

  
 Dutch Conquest of Elmina, 1637
In 1637 a Dutch squadron of 9 ships and 800 men, commanded by Johan Maurits van Nassau, according to other sources by Hans Koin, supported by over 1,000 African auxiliaries, tried again.
Johan Maurits van Nassau was Dutch (W.I.C.) Governor of Brazil (1637-1644).
The Dutch established Elmina as the administrative center of the W.I.C. possessions on the Gold Coast.
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/elmina1637.html   (205 words)

  
 Startling originality of a Dutch painter - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
Post accompanied the newly appointed governor, Prince Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, who wanted him to provide a pictorial record of the land they would be discovering together.
A delegation of Tapuya Indians had paid a visit to Prince Johan Maurits on a tour of the province.
A lone rower in his canoe and three fellow tribesman occupy center stage, clad in the flimsiest feather loincloths, and yet their main purpose appears to be to emphasize the puniness of man on earth, not to introduce picturesque characters.
www.iht.com /articles/2005/12/09/features/melik10.php   (1245 words)

  
 Out of Wedlock quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It depicts the surrender in 1625 of the beleaguered Dutch city of Breda by its military commander Justinus of Nassau to the Spanish general Spinola.
Now this Justinus of Nassau was — and everybody knew this at the time — the illegitimate son of:
Johan Maurits of Nassau, a distant relative of the House of Orange
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