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	William the Silent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William (I) of Orange-Nassau (April 24, 1533 – July 10, 1584), also widely known as William the Silent, was born in the house of Nassau, and became Prince of Orange in 1544.
		William was born in the castle of Dillenburg in Nassau, present-day Germany.
		However, Charles V demanded that William receive a Catholic education, and William was sent to Brussels to study under the supervision of Maria of Hungary, sister of Charles V and regent of the Netherlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_I_of_Orange (3574 words)

	William III of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William, the son of William II, Prince of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, was born in The Hague.
		William was opposed to the imposition of such constraints, but he wisely chose not to engage in a conflict with Parliament and agreed to abide by the statute.
		William lost Namur, a part of his Dutch territory, in 1692, and was disastrously beaten at the Battle of Landen in 1693.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_III_of_England (3761 words)

	WILLIAM IV. (OF HESSE) - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM IV. (OF HESSE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WILLIAM I. [FEIEDRICH KARL] (1781-1864), king of Wurt-temberg, son of Frederick, afterwards King Frederick I. of Wiirttemberg, was born at Liiben in Silesia on the 27th of September 1781.
		WILLIAM IV., landgrave of Hesse (1532-1592), was the son and successor of the landgrave Philip the Magnanimous.
		WILLIAM (1533-1584), surnamed the SILENT, prince of Orange and count of Nassau, was born at the castle of Dillenburg in Nassau, on the 25th of April 1533.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIAM_IV_OF_HESSE_.htm (2718 words)

	Encyclopedia: William I of Orange
		William I (William the Silent) William I, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau (April 24, 1533 â€“ July 10, 1584) was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.
		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.
		William III King of England, Scotland and Ireland William III and II (14 November 1650–8 March 1702; also known as William Henry and William of Orange) was Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-I-of-Orange (8582 words)

	William the Silent. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After inheriting (1544) the holdings of the branch of the Nassau family in the Low Countries and the principality of Orange in S France, William was reared a Roman Catholic at the insistence of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose favorite page he became.
		William ably served Philip II of Spain as a diplomat, particularly in the making of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), but Philip’s encroachments on the liberties of the Netherlands and the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition by Cardinal Granvelle led William to turn against the king.
		In 1566 the party of the Gueux was organized with William’s connivance, and when Alba was sent to the Netherlands to quell the rebels, William withdrew to Germany.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wm/WmSil.html (531 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		William III (William of Orange), born in 1650, was the son of William, Prince of Orange, and Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I).
		William maintained a long-lasting affair with Elizabeth Villiers, one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting, which prompted Mary to be completely devoted and subservient to her husband.
		William and the English populace were conspicuously indifferent to each other, but Mary loved England and the English people loved her.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon51.html (810 words)

	William of Orange
		William was the third by that name in the notable line of Dutch rulers which began with William the Silent.
		William could not stay long in Britain however, for Louis was still meddling in continental affairs and was determined to restore Europe to papal rule.
		Even given the fact that in William's days the relation between church and state was so close that one could hardly avoid resorting to the sword in defense of the faith, the fact remains that the cause of the gospel is not advanced by human might and power.
	www.prca.org /books/portraits/orange.htm (2249 words)

	William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		William, however, took an English army to the Spanish Netherlands in 1691 and was constantly involved in campaigning until the conclusion of peace by the Treaty of Ryswick (1697).
		William and the Whigs were also responsible for the Toleration Act (1689), which lifted some of the disabilities imposed on Protestant nonconformists, and for allowing the Licensing Act to lapse (1695), a great step toward freedom of the press.
		William sought to maintain royal prerogatives but was unable to prevent passage of the Triennial Act (1694), which required a new Parliament every three years, and the Act of Settlement (1701), which imposed the first statutory limitation on royal control of foreign policy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wi/Will3Eng.html (706 words)

	William of Orange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint William of Gellone (755-c.812), legendary courtier of Charlemagne who defeated the Saracens at Orange, is often called William of Orange.
		William III of England, William II of Scotland,"King Billy", and William Henry (In Dutch: "Willem Hendrik")
		William I of the Netherlands also known as (King) William I of Orange-Nassau (who was, before his succession, William VI of Orange)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Orange (362 words)

	William the Silent
		William of Orange is to the citizens of the Netherlands what George Washington is to Americans.
		William was born in the last half of April, 1533 in Germany -- hence the line in the national anthem.
		William was one of 12 children, and the family was brought up and educated in the principles of the Lutheran Reformation.
	www.prca.org /books/portraits/william.htm (2286 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Mary II and William III
		The Bill of Rights had established the succession with the heirs of Mary II, Anne and William III in that order, but by 1700 Mary had died childless, Anne's only surviving child (out of 17 children), the Duke of Gloucester, had died at the age of 11 and William was dying.
		Although Louis was forced to recognise William as King under the Treaty of Ryswick (1697), William's policy of intervention in Europe was costly in terms of finance and his popularity.
		William's Dutch advisers were resented, and in 1699 his Dutch Blue Guards were forced to leave the country.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page100.asp (1015 words)

	Holland and Republicans
		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.
		William II married on 2 May 1641 Mary Henrietta Stuart, the Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, London.
		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)

	William of Orange & the borders of Nord/Pas-de-Calais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William of Orange and the borders of Nord/Pas-de-Calais
		Dutch prince William of Orange (1650-1702) spent his life fighting French king Louis XIV's plans to capture most of the crumbling Spanish empire in the Netherlands.
		But William died in 1702, and the "War of the Spanish Succession" ended in 1713 with the French withdrawing to more-or-less the present borders, and Austria taking over what was left, apart from the Dutch republic.
	www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/william-orange.htm (896 words)

	William I of Orange - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William I of Orange is often referred to alternatively as William the Silent (he allegedly gained this name when the kings of France and Spain proposed killing the Protestants, to which he refused to reply), to distinguish him from his more well known grandson.
		He was originally known as William of Nassau until he inherited the principality of Orange from his cousin Rene, who died without issue, and joined the court of Hapsburg Emperor Charles V, who had been appointed regent over the young William of Orange-Nassau.
		The William of Orange in Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver is his grandson William III.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=William_I_of_Orange (625 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> William III, Prince of Orange, King of England
		William was born at the Hague in 1650, the posthumous son of William II, who died a few days before he was born, and Mary Stuart, daughter of the late King Charles I of England, who had been deposed by English Parliamentarians.
		William was thus an important figure in European politics from the day of his birth, since he not only inherited his Dutch titles, but was fourth in line to inherit the British throne should it be restored.
		William had close and affectionate relations with two notable favorites, William Bentinck, whom he brought to England and made Earl of Portland, and a handsome younger Dutchman, Arnold van Keppel, whom he created Earl of Albemarle.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/william_III.html (858 words)

	William III of Orange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William III of Orange was governor of the Netherlands when an unexpected birth of an heir to the English throne (James III) brought about the threat of a permanent Catholic dynasty for England.
		Whigs and Tories summoned William to the throne ('For the Protestant faith and a free parliament').
		The Glorious Revolution (1688) followed, and William III became King of England.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/william.html (61 words)

	William of Orange 'funded by the Pope'
		Documents discovered in Vatican archives suggest that William of Orange, the Protestant hero who ascended the English throne in 1689, was in the pay of the Pope.
		William, known as "King Billy", has been revered by generations of Ulstermen for his part in driving James II from power and ending Roman Catholic rule in England.
		Members of the Protestant community said the disclosures were unlikely to dent the reputation of William, whose forces' victory over James's army in the 1690 Battle of the Boyne is still celebrated by Northern Ireland's Protestants every July 12.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0901/164.html (693 words)

	King William III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Posthumous son of William II of Orange ruler of the United Netherlands.
		William II was obsessed with the destruction of Imperial France and the salvation of the Netherlands.
		In 1689 William and Mary were recognized as joint monarchs and parliament moved a great step closer to limiting the tyranny of absolute monarchs.
	www.bcpl.net /~cbladey/billy.html (448 words)

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		William Penn was the first great hero of American liberty.
		William Penn was born on October 14, 1644, in London.
		Young William developed a cordial relationship with the King and his brother, the Duke of York, the future King James II.
	www.quaker.org /wmpenn.html (3150 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - This Sceptred Isle - William of Orange
		His first and foremost duty, however, was to the States-General, he had to obtain their approval to claim the English throne on his wife's behalf.
		There is no evidence that William ever intended to be more than Mary's regent but she was adamant she did not want to rule alone.
		William III and Mary II become king and queen of England
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/81.shtml?question=81 (510 words)

	William of Orange
		William did not bring the Guards to London for his coronation, nor venture to give them a share in the operations in Ireland.
		Luxembourg, one of the most masterful soldiers of the age, was in command at Mons, and in order to defeat the purposes of his astute opponent, William marched westward to throw himself between that place and the capital.
		Luxembourg was dead and Villeroy, his successor was as much inferior as a soldier to William as William had been to the victor of Steinkirk and Landen.
	www.military-art.com /dhm705.htm (1751 words)

	COUNT WILLIAM OF ORANGE GUILLAUME D’ORANGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This ebook is a new English translation of the seventeen most important 12th and 13th century Count William of Orange epics.
		These epics recount the deeds of William, his father Aymeri, William’s six brothers and his nephews at the time of Charlemagne and his son Louis, and tell of the struggle of the French against the Saracens in the south of France and in Spain.
		William, his father and brothers appear again in the second group.
	www.ampersandbooks.co.za /_DETAILS/LITERATURE/frenchepics.html (194 words)

	Re: William Wigginton and King William of Orange???
		I have been researching ancestors in Warwick and came across an Orange Wigginton born approx 1783 in Shipston Worcester (LSD 1851 Census - Warwick) He had a daughter Mary Ann Wigington, born 1821, who married a Charles Woodward (my area of interest).
		They had a son Orange Charles Woodward born Shipston Worcester in 1842.
		In 1901 Orange Woodward was in Clapham - a clerk to solicitors and parliamentary agent.
	genforum.genealogy.com /wigginton/messages/474.html (95 words)

	WILLIAM III - William of Orange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Continually weak and in constant pain which resulted in a face with deep lines.
		Father (WILLIAM II) dies of smallpox two weeks before WILLIAM III is born
		WILLIAM II == Princess Mary (Dgtr of CHARLES I) [b.
	www.zodiacal.com /royalty/425.htm (81 words)

	William I Of Orange - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572-84 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
		Naomi Ann Cox (1814-1884), (wife of the Reverend Benjamin Lloyd): Daughter of Cary Cox-II, granddaughter of Cary Cox-I, great granddaughter of William...
		An architectural and archeological survey of Orange Grove, a highland estate in Westend Quarter, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /william_i_of_orange.htm (115 words)

	Search Results for william of orange - Encyclopædia Britannica
		eldest daughter of the English king Charles I and wife of the Dutch stadholder William II of Orange.
		The marriage to Prince William took place in London on May 2, 1641, and in 1642 she crossed over...
		stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as William III (1672–1702) and king of Great Britain (1689–1702), reigning jointly with Queen Mary II (until her death in 1694).
	www.britannica.com /search?query=william%20of%20orange&fuzzy=N&iq=5&start=0&show=5&ct=null (514 words)

	James VII deposed by William of Orange 1689 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James VII deposed by William of Orange 1689
		Unfortunately, in October William of Orange arrived from Holland with an army to take his uncle’s throne.
		At fifty-five, James had lost his ability to form an effective strategy, which some say was due to syphilis, and he took exile in France.
	www.scotclans.com /clans/1689.htm (213 words)

	Anecdote - William III ["William of Orange"] - Catch-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anecdote - William III ["William of Orange"] - Catch-22
		The coronation of William of Orange (after the flight of James II in 1689) was initially stymied by a seemingly insoluble legal dilemma: Only Parliament could declare William king, but only a king could summon the Parliament.
		William III ["William of Orange"], (1650-1702) English monarch; king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689—1702), Dutch stadholder (1672—1702), Prince of Orange [noted for his marriage to Mary (daughter of James II) and for his invasion of England (1688)]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=12365 (128 words)

	william of orange - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		WILLIAM OF ORANGE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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