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William II, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg (1670–1724) William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (1671–1731) William II, Elector of Hesse (1777–1847) William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849), Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg. William II of Bimbia (died 1882), known as Young King William.
Mother. Joanna of Hainaut. William II, Duke of Jülich ( c. 1327 – 13 December 1393) was the second Duke of Jülich and the sixth William in the House of Jülich. He was the second son of William I of Jülich and Joanna of Hainaut. [1] William was co-ruler from 1343. He quarreled greatly with his father and imprisoned him from 1349-1351.
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. The territory of the County of Holland corresponds roughly ...
John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer between 1736 and 1747. He was succeeded by his son, also John, the third Earl. The third Earl was a prominent statesman, ambassador and a Lord of the Admiralty. He married as his first wife Lady Amabel Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, 1st ...
William II (1307 – 26 September 1345) was Count of Hainaut from 1337 until his death. He was also Count of Holland (as William IV) and Count of Zeeland. He succeeded his father, Count William I of Hainaut. While away fighting in Prussia, the Frisians revolted. William returned home and was killed at the Battle of Warns . Categories: 1307 births.
The Prussian invasion of Holland was a military campaign under the leadership of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, against the rise of the democratic Patriot movement in the Dutch Republic in September–October 1787 with the aim of disempowering the patriots and disarming the Free Corps, as well as reinstating the William V of Orange as hereditary stadtholder in the Dutch Republic.
William was a son of John II, Lord of Egmond and Maria van Arkel, and a younger brother of Arnold, Duke of Gelderland. He travelled with his brothers to the Holy Land (1458–1464) and was received in Rome by Pope Pius II . William stayed most of the time in Guelders, where he supported his brother against his nephew Adolf of Egmond.
