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This is a list of monarchs of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koningen der Nederlanden). By practical extension, the list includes the stadtholders of the House of Orange Nassau since 1556. However, they were voted into office by, and were civil servants and generals of, the semi-independent provinces of the Dutch Republic and cannot be seen as monarchs.
List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands; List of grand pensionaries (Holland, Zeeland, Batavian Republic) List of heirs to the Dutch throne; List of stadtholders in the Netherlands. List of monarchs of the Netherlands#Stadtholderate under the House of Orange-Nassau; List of monarchs of the Netherlands § Stadtholderate under the House of ...
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Le Poer Trench; the Earl of Clancarty in the peerage of Ireland is the Marquis of Heusden, [3]; D'Auxy; Van Hoensbroeck (this family left the Netherlands in the 19th century. . Known in Germany as Graf von und zu Hoensbroech, the head of this family bears the titles of Marquis and Count von und zu Hoensbroec
The monarchy of the Netherlands passes by right of succession to the heirs of William I (see House of Orange-Nassau). [Cons 1] The heir is determined through two mechanisms: absolute cognatic primogeniture and proximity of blood. The Netherlands established absolute cognatic primogeniture instead of male-preference primogeniture by law in 1983.
Coat of arms of the Habsburg Netherlands. The governor (Dutch: landvoogd) or governor-general (gouverneur-generaal) of the Habsburg Netherlands was a representative appointed by the Holy Roman emperor (1504-1556), the king of Spain (1556-1598, 1621-1706), and the archduke of Austria (1716-1794), to administer the Burgundian inheritance of the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries when the ...
This is a list of stadtholders (Dutch: stadhouders, German: Statthalter) or governors (French: gouverneurs) in the Low Countries, or historical Netherlands region.This includes all the territories in the Low Countries that were acquired by the House of Habsburg in the 15th and 16th century and were politically united as the Habsburg Netherlands, then known as the "Seventeen Provinces".
The provinces of the republic were, in official feudal order: the duchy of Guelders (Gelre in Dutch), the counties of Holland and Zeeland, the former bishopric of Utrecht, the lordship of Overijssel, and the free (i.e. never feudalised) provinces of Friesland and Groningen.