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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 III . (1817-189o), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Netherlands, son of William II., was See also:born at See also:Brussels on the 19th of See also:February 1817. He married in 1839 See also:Sophia, daughter of William I., king of See also:Wurttemberg. Sophia was an accomplished woman of high intelligence, but unfortunately the relations between the royal pair were far from cordial and finally ended in See also:complete disagreement, and the See also:breach between them continued until the See also:death of the See also:queen in 1877. The private See also:life of the king in fact gave rise to much See also:scandal; nevertheless he was an excellent constitutional monarch, and, though he never sought to win popular favour, succeeded in winning and retaining in a remark-able degree his See also:people's affectionate See also:loyalty. He had no sympathy with See also:political liberalism, but throughout his See also:long reign of See also:forty-two years, with a See also:constant interchange of ministries and many ministerial crises, he never had a serious conflict with the states-See also:general, and his ministers could always See also:count upon his See also:fair-mindedness and an See also:earnest See also:desire to help them to further the See also:national welfare. He was economical, and gave up a third of his See also:civil See also:list in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to help forward the task of establishing an See also:equilibrium in the See also:annual See also:budget, and he was always ready from his large private See also:fortune to help forward all schemes for the social or See also:industrial progress of the See also:country. It was largely due to his prudent See also:diplomacy that 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 passed pacifically through the difficult See also:period of the See also:Luxemburg See also:settlement in x866 and the Franco-See also:German See also:War of 1870.
William III. had two sons by his See also:marriage with Sophia of Wurttemberg, William (1841-1879), and See also:Alexander (1843-1884). Both of them died unmarried. The decease of See also:Prince Alexander See also:left the See also:house of See also:Orange without a See also:direct See also:heir male, but the prospect of a disputed See also:succession had fortunately been averted by the marriage of the king in 1879 with the princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont. From this See also:union a daughter, See also:Wilhelmina, was born in 1880. On her See also:father's death at the See also:Loo, on the 23rd of See also:November 189o, she succeeded as queen of the Nether-lands under the regency of her See also:mother.
William was See also:grand See also:duke of Luxemburg by a See also:personal See also:title, and his death severed the dynastic relation between the See also:kingdom of the Netherlands and the grand duchy. The See also:sovereignty of the Luxemburg duchy passed to the next heir male of the house of See also:Nassau, See also:Adolphus, ex-duke of Nassau.
See J. A. Bruijne, Geschiedenis See also:van Nederland in onzen tijd. (5 vols., See also:Schiedam, 1889–1906); P. Blok, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche See also:Volk (See also:Leiden, 1908), vol. viii.; and G. L. Keppers, De regeering van Koning Willem III. (See also:Groningen, 1887). (G.
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