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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
John Lothrop Motley, "History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort". London: John Murray, 1860. Herbert H. Rowen, John de Witt, grand pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978, which is summarised in
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Roman numerals, used to distinguish related rulers with the same name, [7] have been applied where typical. In political and sociocultural studies, monarchies are normally associated with hereditary rule; most monarchs, in both historical and contemporary contexts, have been born and raised within a royal family.