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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 III of England has been played on screen by: Bernard Lee in the 1937 film The Black Tulip, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père; Henry Daniell in the 1945 film Captain Kidd; Olaf Hytten in the 1952 film Against All Flags; Thom Hoffman in the 1992 film Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf [13]
Cultural depictions of William III of England (1 C, 26 P) E. English MPs under William III and Mary II (6 C) F. Franco-Dutch War (4 C, 41 P) K. King William's War (1 ...
William of England may refer to any of the following monarchs of England and later the United Kingdom: William I (c. 1028 –1087; r. 1066–1087), also known as William the Conqueror or William the Bastard; William II of England (c. 1056 –1100; r. 1087–1100), also known as William Rufus; William III of England (1650–1702; r.
Harald and William both invaded separately in 1066. Godwinson successfully repelled the invasion by Hardrada, but ultimately lost the throne of England in the Norman conquest of England. After the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, William the Conqueror made permanent the recent removal of the capital from Winchester to London.
His biography of William III remains the standard scholarly study, and projects a highly favorable view of the king Of England, 1689-1702: William III was the Deliverer of England from the tyranny and arbitrary government of the Stuarts....He repaired and improved an obsolete system of government, and left it strong enough to withstand the ...
William III, Count of Burgundy (c. 1110 –1127) William III of Forcalquier (died 1129) William III of Mâcon (1088–1156) William III, Count of Nevers (c. 1107 –1161) William III, Count of Ponthieu (c. 1093 –1172) William III, Count of Jülich (r. 1207–1219) William II, Count of Flanders, also styled William III of Dampierre (1224–1251)
The Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked from Holland, and Landed at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a Stormy Passage is an 1832 marine history painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. [1] [2] It depicts an event from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when William III had landed at Brixham.