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See also:MAURICE OF See also:NASSAU , See also:prince of See also:Orange (1567-1625), the second son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Silent, by See also:Anna, only daughter of the famous Maurice, elector of See also:Saxony, was See also:born at Dillenburg. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:father's assassination in 1584 he was being educated at the university of See also:Leiden, at the expense of the states of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Zeeland. Despite his youth he was made See also:stadtholder of those two provinces and See also:president of the See also:council of
See also:state. During the See also:period of See also:Leicester's governorship he remained in the background, engaged in acquiring a thorough knowledge of the military See also:art, and in 1586 the States of Holland conferred upon him the See also:title of prince. On the withdrawal of Leicester from the See also:Netherlands in See also:August 1587, Johan See also:van See also:Oldenbarneveldt, the See also:advocate of Holland, became the leading statesman of the See also:country, a position which he retained for upwards of See also:thirty years. He had been a devoted adherent of William the Silent and he now used his See also:influence to forward the interests of Maurice. In 1588 he was appointed by the States-See also:General See also:captain and See also:admiral-general of the See also:Union, in 1590 he was elected stadtholder of See also:Utrecht and See also:Overysel, and in 1591 of See also:Gelderland. From this time forward, Oldenbarneveldt at the See also:head of the See also:civil See also:government and Maurice in command of the armed forces of the See also:republic worked together in the task of rescuing the See also:United Netherlands from See also:Spanish domination (for details see HOLLAND). Maurice soon showed himself to be a general second in skill to none of his contemporaries. He was especially famed for his consummate knowledge of the See also:science of sieges. The twelve years' truce on the gth of See also:April 1609 brought to an end the cordial relations between Maurice and Oldenbarneveldt. Maurice was opposed to the truce, but the advocate's policy triumphed and henceforward there was enmity between them. The theological disputes between the See also:Remonstrants and contra-Remonstrants found them on different sides; and the theological See also:quarrel soon became a See also:political one. Oldenbarneveldt, supported by the states of Holland, came forward as the See also:champion of provincial See also:sovereignty against that of the states-general; Maurice threw the See also:weight of his See also:sword on the See also:side of the union. The struggle was a See also:short one, for the See also:army obeyed the general who had so often led them to victory. Oldenbarneveldt perished on the See also:scaffold, and the See also:share which Maurice had in securing the illegal condemnation by a packed See also:court of See also:judges of the aged patriot must ever remain a stain upon his memory.
Maurice, who had on the See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip William, in See also:February 1618, become prince of Orange, was now supreme in the state, but during the See also:remainder of his See also:life he sorely missed the See also:wise counsels of the experienced Oldenbarneveldt. See also:War See also:broke out again in 1621, but success had ceased to accompany him on his See also:campaigns. His See also:health gave way, and he died, a prematurely aged See also:man, at the See also:Hague on the 4th of April 1625. He was buried by his father's side at See also:Delft.
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