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William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also 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 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
King William III of England commissions the Cartoon Gallery at Hampton Court Palace from Sir Christopher Wren to house Raphael's drawings of the Acts of the Apostles. John Riley is appointed court painter to William III and Mary II in England.
In Northern Ireland, murals in Unionist or Loyalist areas of the country often depict William and his success at the Battle of the Boyne. The first mural of William was painted in Derry in the 1920s and depicted the Battle of the Boyne and his ending of the siege of Derry. King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern ...
English: Painting of William III, the Duke of Schomberg, and the Pope. The painting shows arrival of King William III in Ireland in the 1690s, with Pope Innocent XI giving a blessing (top left). The painting shows arrival of King William III in Ireland in the 1690s, with Pope Innocent XI giving a blessing (top left).
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The war began in March 1689 when James II and VII landed in Ireland seeking to reverse the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, which had replaced him with his nephew William III and daughter Mary II. The conflict was part of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance , a coalition led by William as ...
Nederlands: Portret van Willem III, prins van Oranje, stadhouder en sedert 1689 tevens koning van Engeland. Heupstuk, staande in wapenrusting naar rechts met commandostaf in de rechterhand, de linkerhand rustend op een helm.
A Williamite was a follower of King William III of England (r. 1689–1702) who deposed King James II and VII in the Glorious Revolution. William, the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, replaced James with the support of English Whigs. One of William's aims was to ensure England's entry into his League of Augsburg against France in the Nine ...