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	William III (of England, Scotland, and Ireland) - MSN Encarta
		Born on November 14, 1650, in The Hague, Holland, William was the posthumous son of William II, prince of Orange and stadtholder of the Netherlands, and Mary, eldest daughter of the English King Charles I.
		In 1672, after the invasion of the Netherlands by the French King Louis XIV, the leadership of Jan De Witt, grand pensionary of Holland, was repudiated, and William was elected stadtholder, captain-general, and admiral.
		William's reign continued to be marked by abortive Jacobite plots to restore James to the throne.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572363/William_III_(of_England_Scotland_and_Ireland).html (541 words)

	William II of the Netherlands
		Son of King William I of the Netherlands and Queen Wilhelmina, princess of Prussia.
		William spent his youth in Berlin at the court of the Prussian King.
		In 1816 William engaged himself with Charlotte of Wales, eldest daughter of George IV of the United Kingdom.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William_II_of_the_Netherlands.html (421 words)

	William III Of The Netherlands - LoveToKnow 1911
		(1817-1890), king of the Netherlands, son of William II., was born at Brussels on the 19th of February 1817.
		The private life of the king in fact gave rise to much scandal; nevertheless he was an excellent constitutional monarch, and, though he never sought to win popular favour, succeeded in winning and retaining in a remarkable degree his people's affectionate loyalty.
		William was grand duke of Luxemburg by a personal title, and his death severed the dynastic relation between the kingdom of the Netherlands and the grand duchy.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_III_Of_The_Netherlands (436 words)

	William III of England at AllExperts
		William III was appointed to the Dutch post of Stadtholder on 28 June 1672, and remained in office until he died.
		William of Orange, the son of William II, Prince of Orange and Mary Stuart, was born in The Hague.
		William III felt insecure about his position; though only his wife was formally eligible to assume the throne, he wished to reign as King in his own right, rather than as a mere consort.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_iii_of_england.htm (3876 words)

	Netherlands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The northern provinces, under the leadership of William the Silent, prince of Orange, succeeded (1572-74) in expelling the Spanish garrisons.
		At the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) the former United Provinces and the former Austrian Netherlands were united under King William I, son of William V of Orange.
		Immigration as a colonial inheritance: post-colonial immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2002.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-nethrlds.html (3050 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 determined to make Mary his wife because he thought it would result in an alliance between the Netherlands and England, which would make the lot of his people easier in their wars with France.
		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 of Orange (Pepys' Diary)
		William III who was born in 1650 was the son of Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles I, and William II, the Stadtholder, who died shortly before his birth.
		William’s fortunes changed in 1672 when De Witt, along with his brother were killed by a mob in The Hague for Dutch humiliation and practical annihilation at the hands of the French and English during the Second Dutch War of Charles II.
		As Parliament was de facto the ruler of England, and William III had in the Netherlands more power than the stadholdership originally contained (a stadholder was a “servant” of the Provinces) it was said that he was king in the Netherlands an stadholder in England.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/781.php (814 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Queen Beatrix is daughter of the late Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
		Her godparents are King Leopold III of Belgium, Duke Adolphe of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (brother of her maternal grandfather Prince Hendrik), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, and Allene Countess de Kotzebue.
		Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is a direct descendant of Sophia, Electress of Hanover via her granddaughter Anne, Princess Royal (1709–1759).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands (1849 words)

	Holland 1697 - 1890 The history of the Lowlands during the 18th and 19th century, The Franch revolution, The Batavian ...
		In 1689 William III was even crowned as King of England after he defeated the Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland.
		William III was called to fill the office of Orange of dignity and authority which had been held by his ancestors of the house of Orange, and the Stadtholdership was declared to be hereditary in his family.
		On the death (1702) of William III the Stadtholderate was again suspended and the States-General resumed control of the government during the period of Simon van Slingerlandt of Dordrecht became Grand Pensionary from 1721-1736 and was also a Republican as his predecessors van Oldenbarneveldt and de Witt were.
	www.geerts.com /holland/holland-5.htm (2262 words)

	Regent William III King Billy - The Netherlands - De Ridder Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William of Orange, born in The Hague, the 14th of 1650, son of Regent Willem II and Maria Stuart I, daughter of the English Charles I. Willem III became known as a cold and calculating man, but was a skilled diplomat and general.
		In 1688 the English protestants asked William III to expel their king (his father in law), James II, since he would be too pro-catholic.
		William III died on the 29th of March 1702 of injuries caused by a fall of a horse at Hampton Court.
	www.de-ridder.info /netherlands/rulers/rule11.shtml (560 words)

	Breda Trip Photos
		Breda was the place of exile in the Netherlands of Britain's Charles II (North and South Carolina are named for his father) and formed a base for Spanish occupation of the Netherlands during the Thirty Years War.
		After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, James II fled England, and the British Parliament invited his daughter and her husband, Princess Mary and Prince William of Orange to assume the British throne.
		William III was not king of the Netherlands, but Stadtholder, or head of the government.
	paws.wcu.edu /mulligan/www/bredatrip.html (1001 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 III acceded to the British throne when the English ousted James II in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/william_III.html (858 words)

	Luxembourg - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The remainder, continuing in personal union with the Netherlands as well as a member of the German Confederation, became autonomous and was granted a constitution in 1848.
		When the German Confederation was dissolved in 1866, William III of the Netherlands agreed to sell the grand duchy to France, nearly provoking war between France and Prussia.
		William III died (1890) without a male heir; his daughter Wilhelmina succeeded him in the Netherlands, but Duke Adolf of Nassau, from a collateral line, became grand duke of Luxembourg.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-luxembou.html (1253 words)

	Who was Prince William III of Orange?
		The story of King William III of Orange is one of religious differences, political maneuverings and of family conflict.
		William was born November 1650, 2 weeks after his father, King William II of the Netherlands had died.
		When William was 27 years old he married (14th November, 1677) a 15-year-old – Henrietta Mary Stuart – known as Mary, the daughter of James II (the heir-apparent and brother to the ruling Charles II of England).
	wy.essortment.com /whowasprincew_rlbt.htm (1542 words)

	William III, king of the Netherlands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1817–90, king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg (1849–90), son and successor of William II.
		William III ruled as a constitutional monarch, and his long reign was unmarred by friction with the States-General.
		The Netherlands crown passed to his daughter, Wilhelmina, but Luxembourg went to Duke Adolph of Nassau, from a collateral line of the family.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wi/Will3Neth.html (170 words)

	William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland — FactMonster.com
		William III, 1650–1702, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689–1702); son of William II, prince of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and of Mary, oldest daughter of King Charles I of England.
		William's personality was cold and his public policy calculating, but he was an able soldier and an astute politician, and his reign was of momentous constitutional importance.
		William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Early Life - Early Life He was born at The Hague after his father's death, when the office of stadtholder...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0852297.html (198 words)

	Mary II
		William was the son of her aunt, Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, and of Prince William II of Nassau.
		At first, William was reluctant; he was jealous of his wife's position as the heiress to the English Crown and feared that she would become more powerful than he was.
		William of Orange felt insecure about his position; he wished to reign as a King, rather than function as a mere consort of a Queen.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Europe/England/Royal_Family/maryii.html (1283 words)

	22ND GENERATION
		Queen Wilhelmina of the NETHERLANDS was born in 1880 in the Hague, the Netherlands - dtr of William III.
		She was married to Duke Henry of MECKLENBURG (son of Duke Frederick Francis II of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN) on 7 Feb 1901 in the Netherlands.
		Duke Henry of MECKLENBURG was born in 1876 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7585.htm (98 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Netherlands : William III., 1672-1702
		During the latter years of his reign, he was preoccupied with foreign policy, and since 1688 he resided in England, thus unable to strengthen the position of the stadholder in the Dutch Republic, and to a certain extent neglecting the interests of the country.
		In 1675 the Estates General declared the position of Captain General of the army, presently held by William III., as hereditary in his family.
		William III.'s preoccupation with foreign policy and his residence in England left the administration of the Dutch Republic largely in the hands of Heinsius.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/lowcountries/dutrep16721702.html (1097 words)

	Titles of European hereditary rulers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William I "the Silent" of Nassau (+1584), Prince of Orange and (since 1559) Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, became the military leader of the uprising against Philip's rule.
		In 1815 King William I ceded his hereditary possessions in Nassau to the King of Prussia and the Duke of Nassau, and was compensated with Luxembourg.
		With the death of King William III in 1890, the male line of the Nassau-Dietz branch of the House of Nassau became extinct, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg separated from the Netherlands and passed to William's Nassau relatives.
	www.geocities.com /eurprin/netherlands.html (3131 words)

	Netherlands Travel Guide \| Travel Information Guide
		Holland, or The Netherlands, is a lively mix of tradition, in the form of windmills and tulips, and fast-paced modern European life.
		The Netherlands' roots in the arts stem from the 17th century, the so-called ‘Golden Age', which placed this tiny but rich country at the forefront of European culture.
		This reached its acme in 1689 when William III of Orange became King of England - although the association was severed on his death in 1702.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /country/187/country_guide/Europe/Netherlands.html (284 words)

	William
		William is the modern English form of a Norman name, Willelm, comming from the Germanic name Wilhelm, or Willahelm.
		William was a later Germanic name and did not appear in England in the Anglo-Saxon period.
		It was brought to the island with William the Conqueror and the Norman French in 1066.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/w/william.html (436 words)

	Netherlands (Harper's Magazine)
		Emma, Queen, consort of William III, King of the Netherlands
		Friederike Sophie, consort of William V, Prince of Orange
		Sophie, Queen, consort of William III, King of the Netherlands
	www.harpers.org /subjects/Netherlands (37 words)

	Dutch Gold 10 Guilders, King William III design
		Son and successor of William II and grandson of William I, the first King of the Netherlands following the Napoleonic occupation, William III was widely admired during his time as an enlightened constitutional monarch who guided his nation through many progressive reforms.
		Working closely with Jan Thorbecke, the leading Dutch statesman during his reign, William III obtained full emancipation of the Dutch Catholics, extended the electorate, and initiated the construction of canals for reclaiming land from the sea.
		Because of his openness to reform, William’s long reign was largely free of the friction with the parliamentary States-General that had plagued both his father and grandfather, resulting in the latter’s abdication in 1840.
	www.amergold.com /vault/Dutch_Gold_10_Guilders.php (742 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Netherlands : William III., 1672-1702
		In 1675 the STATEN GENERAEL declared the position of CAPTAIN GENERAL of the army, presently held by William III., as hereditary in his family.
		Csar Peter the Great visited the Netherlands incognito (1697/98), the Netherlands being an object of his study of modern society and economy.
		During the latter years of his reign, he was preoccupied with foreign policy, and since 1688 he resided in England, thus unable to strengthen the position of the stadholder in the Netherlands, and to a certain extent neglecting the interests of the country.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/lowcountries/williamiii.html (754 words)

	luxhistory2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Duchy of Luxembourg was raised to the rank of a grand duchy and was ceded to the new King of the Netherlands, who thus also became the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
		However, The Netherlands changed its succession law into cognatic primogeniture during King William III of the Netherlands when it had become apparent that he would leave no permanent agnatic issue.
		Specifically, partition occurred when the daughter of William III became Queen of the Netherlands, while a woman was not allowed to succeed to the throne of Luxembourg, giving way to a more distant relative.
	www.bissenfamily.net /luxhistory2.htm (362 words)

	Duchy of Nassau 1806-1866 (Prussia, Germany)
		During 1816-1866 all Nassau lands were a single Duchy, except of course the Netherlands, who are ruled by another branch of the Nassau family.
		Duke Adolf lost his duchy to Prussia in 1866 but inherited Luxemburg in 1890 when king William III of the Netherlands died and the throne of the Netherlands went to his daughter Wilhelmina.
		After the death of King William III of the Netherlands in 1890, Duke Adolf of Nassau became Grand Duke of Luxembourg (and his descendents still are).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-na806.html (837 words)

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