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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.
William was born on 19 February 1817 in the Palace of the Nation in Brussels, [1] which was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. He was the eldest son of the future king William II of the Netherlands and Anna Pavlovna of Russia. He had three brothers, one of whom died in infancy, and one sister. [2]
William III, Count of Jülich (r. 1207–1219) William II, Count of Flanders, also styled William III of Dampierre (1224–1251) William de Cantilupe (died 1254) William III of Baux (died 1257) William III Giudice of Cagliari (r. 1256–1258) William III of Geneva (1280-1320) William I, Count of Hainaut or William III of Holland (c. 1286 –1337)
Coats of arms corresponding to the titles borne by various Dutch monarchs, displayed at Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The Kingdom of the Netherlands was proclaimed on 16 March 1815, as a state in personal union with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg under William I, a member of the House of Orange-Nassau who had already inherited a vast number of titles and lands from his ancestors.
William I of the Netherlands: 4. William II of the Netherlands: 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia: 2. William III of the Netherlands: 10. Paul I of Russia: 5. Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia: 11. Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg: 1. Prince Maurice of the Netherlands: 12. Frederick I of Württemberg: 6. William I of Württemberg: 13.
In 1930, she published William III and the Defence of Holland, 1672-44. That same year, she married John Moorman, an Anglican cleric who rose to become the Bishop of Ripon. She is best known today for her two-volume biography of the poet William Wordsworth. The first volume came out in 1957, followed by a second volume in 1966.
First page of the pamphlet. Aan het Volk van Nederland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːn ət ˈfɔl(ə)k fɑˈneːdərlɑnt]; English: To the People of the Netherlands) was a pamphlet distributed by window-covered carriages across all major cities of the Dutch Republic in the night of 25 to 26 September 1781.
March – Joseph Caryl, English Biblical commentator and preacher (born 1602) March 15 – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (born 1615) May 4 – Richard Brathwait, English poet (born 1588) November 16 – Katarina Zrinska, Croatian poet (born c. 1625) December 15 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer and scientist (born 1623) [5]