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	House of Orange-Nassau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem's unability to proper was a small factor to the of the Dutch Republic (a larger factor the corrupt regents).
		Royal power was curbed during the of his son Willem II in a constitution ordered by the to prevent the Revolution of 1848 from passing along his country.
		Willem II died in 1849 and left the throne to William III a conservative even reactionary man sharply opposed to 1848 constitution and constantly trying to form own royal governments.
	www.freeglossary.com /House_of_Orange-Nassau (1717 words)

	The House of Orange
		Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz (1613-1664), Stadtholder of Frisia 1640, Groningen and Drenthe 1650, heir.
		Willem V Batavus of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806), Stadtholder of The Netherlands 1751-1795 (deposed), married 1767 Wilhelmina "Willemijntje" of Prussia (1751-1820).
		Willem Frederik Hendrik (1820-1879), Stadtholder of Luxembourg 1850, married 1st 1853 Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830-1872), married 2nd 1878 Maria of Prussia (1855-1888).
	www.geerts.com /holland/orange-house.htm (5235 words)

	House of Orange-Nassau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem's parents Willem (the Rich) of Nassau and especially his mother Juliana of Stolberg, were devout Lutherans but accepted the conditions of Emperor Charles V in the interest of their son's and their dynasty's future.
		Willem of Orange was present during the negotiations for the peace treaty of Cateau Chambrésis, when he learned that both France and Spain were determined to crush the rise of Protestantism when the Treaty was singned.
		Willem V Batavus was not considered a good leader and his very intelligent wife, Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia had to rescue her husband on several occasions by getting her brother, the Prussian King, to send troops to the aid of Willem V in fighting the rising revolutionary unrest.
	www.members.lycos.nl /oranjenassau/new_page_32.htm (3871 words)

	Willem II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem II The year was 1944 and The Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis.
		Willem II provided the Dutch with an opportunity to do what was officially forbidden by Nazi authorities: stand up for the royal family and the flag.
		Willem II made it to the Amstel Cup final in 2005 (PSV proved too strong at De Kuip), but otherwise dropped back to the centre group of the Eredivisie after the Adriaanse era and were actually condemned to the relegation play-offs in 2006.
	www.ajax-usa.com /teams/willem.html (841 words)

	William the Silent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William was born in the castle of Dillenburg in Nassau, present-day Germany.
		The so-called Prinsenvlag (Prince's flag), based on the colours in the coat of arms of William of Orange was used by the Dutch rebels, and forms the basis of the current flag of the Netherlands.
		A statue of William of Orange in The Hague.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_I_of_Orange (4082 words)

	Biografie Willem van Oranje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem van Oranje reageert op deze opstand door drie beeldenbestormers op te hangen, maar tegelijkertijd staat hij de godsdienstbeoefening in elke kerk toe en belooft het einde van de inquisitie.
		Willem van Oranje blijft een beleid voorstaan waarmee de Spanjaarden met gezamelijke krachten uit Nederland verdreven kunnen worden en bovendien streeft hij naar een gezamelijk vaderland.
		De moeder van Willem van Oranje, Juliana van Stoltenberg, die voor een groot gedeelte verantwoordelijk is voor zijn opvoeding en heeft bijgedragen aan het karakter van de Prins, sterft op 18 juni 1580 op 76-jarige leeftijd.
	www.wilhelmus.nl /biografiewillem.html (2103 words)

	William III of Orange, King of England - Timeline Index
		Willem III, Prince of Orange, also known as King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was a Prince of the House of Orange-Nassau and Dutch Stadtholder and (jointly with his wife Mary II until her death) King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (February 13, 1689 - March 8, 1702).
		William 1 of Orange (Willem van Oranje), also known as William the Silent (Willem de Zwijger), was the leader of the Dutch war of independence from Spanish rule, known as...
		William of Orange was leader of the Dutch, then in the early stages of a war with the French: the War of the Grand Alliance.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/696 (537 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty -- Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The revolt was led by Prince William I of Orange, the founder of the modern Netherlnds.
		Willem Nicolaas Alexander Frederik Karel Hendrik (1840-1879): Willem was recognized as the crown prince in 1849.
		Willem Alexander (1967-): Wilhelm Alexander is the Crown Prince of The Netherlands--the Prince of Orange.
	histclo.com /royal/net/royal-neth.htm (2825 words)

	Holland and Republicans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Orange family tried to return to their former power and were again responsible for the several political murders during the rule of William II who luckily died soon after his succession of Frederick Henry.
		The son of Willem II, Willem III, was too young to rule anyway and when the 80 years War with Spain was ended in 1648 the Staten General of Holland no longer needed a "War Lord".
		The youthful prince of Orange, William II with the support of the States General and the army, seized five of the leaders of the states-right party and imprisoned them in Loevestein Castle in 1650 among these was Jacob de Witt, their father.
	www.geerts.com /holland/holland-repiblicans.htm (3693 words)

	Namnlöst dokument
		Willem Frederikl Born on the 24 of August 1772.
		His parents were Prince Willem V of Orange and Nassau, Hereditary Stadtholder of the Republic of the United Netherlands and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.
		Willem I died on the 12 of December 1843.
	www.warholm.nu /Kingdutch.html (471 words)

	Luxemburg (city) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Because Guillaume II is Willem II (William II in English), the second king of the Netherlands from the Orange-Nassau family.
		After that king Willem I decided it was time for his son, Willem II to become king AND he also became Grand-Duke.
		The statue of Willem (Guillaume) II of Orange Nassau still stands proudly on a square that is named after him in Luxembourg city, close to the national government buildings.
	home.tiscali.nl /~aarde01/luxburg.htm (896 words)

	Stadtholder - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1572, William of Orange was elected as the stadtholder, although Philip II had appointed a different one.
		Willem IV of Nassau, 1711-1747 (subsequently became heriditary stadtholder for all provinces)
		William IV of Orange, 1711-1747 (subsequently became heriditary stadtholder for all provinces)
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=70855 (544 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History \| Battle of the Boyne: King William III's Victory in Ireland
		Willem, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau, was born on November 14, 1650.
		Willem, meanwhile, found allies among fellow heads of state who were becoming fearful of Louisâ; growing power--the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg.
		Throughout the summer of 1677, Willem and the duc de Luxembourg carried on a campaign of maneuver that was generally advantageous to the French, but in which neither side struck a decisive blow.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/military_history/3037491.html (1426 words)

	History of The Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1795, French troops ousted Willem V of Orange, the Stadhouder under the Dutch Republic and head of the House of Orange.
		Following Napoleon's defeat in 1813, the Netherlands and Belgium became the "Kingdom of the United Netherlands" under King Willem I, son of Willem V of Orange.
		King Willem II was largely responsible for the liberalizing revision of the constitution in 1848.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/netherlands.html (515 words)

	Willem of Orange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem van Nassau was born in 1533 and raised in the spirit of a new
		He indeed was raised as a Catholic at the court of Karel V in Brussel.
		In 1572 Willem came to live in the Prinsenhof, in Delft.
	www.hhit.hsholland.nl /delft/delftmeta/pg466.htm (141 words)

	Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johan Willem Friso (4 August 1687 -14 July 1711) was stadholder of Friesland until his untimely death by drowning in the Hollands Diep in 1711.
		He was the son of Prince Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Diez and a member of the House of Nassau and through the testamentary dispositions of William III became the progenitor of the new line of the house of Orange-Nassau.
		When coming of age, Johan Willem Friso became a general of Dutch troops during the War of Spanish Succession, under the command of the Duke of Marlborough, and turned out to be a competent officer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johan_Willem_Friso_of_Orange-Nassau (421 words)

	Pieter Willem Botha Summary
		Pieter Willem Botha (born 1916) was inaugurated as the first executive state president of the Republic of South Africa in 1984 after serving for six years as prime minister.
		Pieter Willem Botha, who is widely referred to by the Afrikaans pronunciation of his first two initials--"pee-vee"--was born on January 12, 1916, at "Telegraaf" farm in the Paul Roux district of the Orange Free State.
		Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as "P.W." and "Die Groot Krokodil" (Afrikaans for "The Big Crocodile") was prime minister from 1978 to 1984 and state president from 1984 to 1989.
	www.bookrags.com /Pieter_Willem_Botha (2719 words)

	goDutch.com :: The marriages of seven Dutch monarchs
		Crown Prince Willem-Alexander as successor to the Dutch throne is the seventh monarch to enter marriage since his ancestor Prince Willem of Orange Nassau (1772-1843) tied the knot with Princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia in 1791.
		Upon the return of Prince Willem VI at the beaches of Scheveningen in 1814, the Dutch led by statesman Gijsbert Karel Van Hogendorp instituted a constitutional monarchy headed by the House of Orange Nassau.
		Willem assumed the throne as King Willem I. From 1559 to 1795, the House gave - much of the country - an appointed leader who served as Stadtholder (Commander-in Chief and Governor) although two lengthy hiatus occurred during that period.
	www.godutch.com /windmill/newsItem.asp?id=159 (848 words)

	Willem de Kooning
		Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), sometimes called the American Picasso, was born in the Netherlands at the beginning of the last century.
		Abstract Expressionism was a post-World War II art movement that combined European modernism with traditional painting with an American perspective; it was both abstract and expressive, hence the term Abstract Expressionism.
		Willem de Kooning made his first print, an etching, in 1957 and his earliest lithographs date from 1960.
	www.annalies.com /Gallery/Willem_de_Kooning/willem_de_kooning.html (430 words)

	Avalanche Press
		When peace was signed in 1784, responsibility for the abysmal Dutch performance was dumped on the head of Willem V, Prince of Orange, captain-general of the Republic’s fleet and army and effective head of state.
		Willem’s largely mercenary army collapsed, but to the chagrin of not a few politicians in Paris the Batavians declared a new independent republic in Amsterdam before French armies could occupy the city.
		As Russian troops crossed the Dutch borders in 1813, a full-scale rebellion against the French broke out and the son of Willem V (who had since died), Willem Frederik, returned and became Willem I of a new Kingdom of the Netherlands.
	www.avalanchepress.com /BatavianVariant.php (1369 words)

	MauritsHuis EN - Collection > gallery prince willem v
		The Prince Willem V Gallery was the first public museum in the Netherlands.
		In 1774 the stadholder Willem V, Prince of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806), brought the most important paintings of his collection together in this building on the Buitenhof and regularly opened his picture gallery to the public.
		The largest part of Willem V’s collection was brought to the Mauritshuis in 1822, robbing the Gallery on the Buitenhof of its function.
	www.mauritshuis.nl /index.aspx?ChapterID=2370 (213 words)

	Matters of Taste: Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem I of Orange and Nassau serves as the first stadhouder of the Netherlands.
		Under authority of the Congress of Vienna, Holland and Belgium become the United Kingdom of the Netherlands; Willem I is ruler.
		Willem I recognizes Belgian independence, and the Netherlands acquires its current form.
	www.albanyinstitute.org /resources/archive/dutch/dutch.timeline.htm (1629 words)

	Genealogy of the House Orange-Nassau
		Willem I Prince d'Orange, Count of Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Diez "The Silent"
		(At the request of Prince Willem five clergymen declared after an inquiry of the evidence of the adultery of his wife Anna, that the marriage could be considered null and void according to human and divine law, Brielle, June 11th, 1575)
		Willem II Prince d'Orange, Count of Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez, Buren, Leerdam, Lingen and Mörs
	www.geocities.com /oranjenassau2002/genorangenassau2.html (2121 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
		'Willem' is a Dutch given name, equivalent to the English William and the German Wilhelm.
		Willem Cornelis Vis (1924-1993) was born in Utrecht, Netherlands.
		The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is a competition for law students, named after Mr Vis, which simulates an arbitral proceeding in the field of international trade law.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A588170 (2594 words)

	Prince of Orange on working visit to ITC
		The specific subjects of study presented by the students were selected beforehand and the prince made a very attentive and knowledgeable audience, displaying a special interest in the opportunities afforded by remote sensing in the context of water management.
		Prince Willem Alexander also wanted to know whether the political situation in a country affects the availability of satellite images, since the free images on the Internet are not always sufficient for specific studies.
		Contribution of HRH the Prince of Orange to the Panel of the UN Secretary General in preparation for the Johannesburg Summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002): No water No future, A Water Focus for Johannesburg.
	www.itc.nl /news_events/archive/general/0002_details.asp (2308 words)

	Objets d'Art, Without Hype
		A Dutch glass was a masterpiece in form design and made more desirable by the superbly engraved arms of Willem V of Orange and Nassau.
		A Latin inscription wishing long life to Willem Carel Hendrick Friso (King William IV of Orange and Nassau) includes the date March 8, 1748.
		That implicitly gives the clue to the occasion for which the glass was commissioned - the birth of Willem V, heir to the throne.
	www.iht.com /articles/1993/02/13/lond_2.php (1256 words)

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