Search results
William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.
Oct 9, 2021 · In 1647–1655, the displeased nobility in Hesse-Cassel used similar termsto the nobility of Jülich to express criticism regarding their government. Landgravine Amelie Elisabeth von Hanau-Münzenberg (1602–1651) ruled the Lower Principality of Hesse-Cassel from 1637 to 1650, as regent for her son Wilhelm VI (1629–1663).
- Christel Annemieke Romein
- 2021
Apr 6, 2024 · William the Silent (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from Dutch: Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United ...
Oct 1, 2021 · Amelie Elisabeth von Hanau-Münzenberg (1602 – 1651) ruled the Lower Princi pality of Hesse-Cassel from 1637 to 1650, as regent for her son Wilhelm VI (1629 – 1663). 1
This started to change after 1582. The votes in the Council of Princes became associated with territories rather than individual rulers. When multiple heirs divided a territory, they shared its vote. When a person acquired a secular territory whose previous ruler had a voice in the Council of Princes, he could claim the corresponding voice.
Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben (1551–1637) was Countess of Mansfeld and the daughter of Johann (Hans) Georg I, of Mansfeld Eisleben. She converted Gebhard, Seneschal of Waldburg, the Prince-Elector of Electorate of Cologne and archbishop of the Diocese of Cologne to the Protestant faith, leading to the Cologne War (1583–1588).
This relationship would become even closer in the coming years. Tragedy struck the family in 1873, a week before Alix’s first birthday. Alix’s two-and-a-half-year-old brother Friedrich, known as Frittie had been diagnosed with hemophilia after a cut on his ear took several days to stop bleeding.
