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William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · William of Orange. Also called: William Henry, prince of Orange. Dutch: Willem Hendrik, prins van Oranje. Born: November 14 [November 4, Old Style], 1650, The Hague, Netherlands. Died: March 19 [March 8], 1702, London, England (aged 51) Title / Office: king (1689-1702), England. king (1689-1702), Ireland. king (1689-1702), Scotland.
15 de sept. de 2022 · William's precise role as Prince of Orange is described here by the constitutional historian R. Starkey: The head of the House of Orange was not sovereign in the Dutch Republic, but first among equals. Sovereignty instead resided in the Estates of the seven provinces.
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- William III of England was known for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which saw him peacefully take the throne from James II of England who abdicat...
- William, Prince of Orange was a Dutchman, but he was so called because his family controlled the small principality of Orange in southern France.
- William III and Mary II ruled together because Parliament wanted to continue the direct line of Stuart monarchs through Mary but also have the powe...
- William III of England, who had no children, was succeeded by his sister-in-law Anne, Queen of Great Britain in 1702.
10 min read. William III was born on 4th November 1650. A Dutchman by birth, part of the House of Orange, he would later reign as King of England, Scotland and Ireland until his death in 1702. William’s reign came at a precarious time in Europe when religious divide dominated international relations. William would emerge as an important ...
William the Silent or William the Taciturn ( Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; [1] [2] 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands [3] [4] as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje ), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal i...
William was the son of Charles I 's daughter, Princess Mary and William II, Prince of Orange, in the present-day Netherlands. The House of Orange-Nassau remains the reigning house in the Netherlands today. Header image: A pair of portraits of William III and Mary II by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1690.
William II (Dutch: Willem II van Oranje-Nassau; 27 May 1626 – 6 November 1650) was sovereign Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, Overijssel and Groningen in the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March 1647 until his death three years later.
