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The House of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Huis van Oranje-Nassau, pronounced [ˈɦœys fɑn oːˌrɑɲə ˈnɑsʌu]) is the current reigning house of the Netherlands.A branch of the European House of Nassau, the house has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, particularly since William the Silent organised the Dutch Revolt against Spanish ...
- 1544; 479 years ago
- William the Silent
The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With the fall of the Hohenstaufen in the first half of the 13th century royal power within Franconia evaporated and the former stem duchy fragmented into separate independent states. Nassau emerged as ...
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The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the principalities of Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg both joined the ...
- 1344; 679 years ago
- House of Nassau
Jun 4, 2015 · 2. P.W. Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848 (Oxford, 1994); Webster, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh; H. Nicholson, The Congress of Vienna.A Study in Allied Unity: 1812–1822 (London, 1948); H.A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812–1822 (London, 1957); M. ‘Jarrett, The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and ...
- Mark Edward Hay
- 2016
The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The lords of Nassau were originally titled "Count of Nassau", then elevated to the princely class as "Princely Counts". Early on they divided into two main branches: the elder (Walramian) branch, that ...
List of princesses of Luxembourg. Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg. Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken. Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg. Louis I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg. Louis of Nassau. Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken. Louise Sophie of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Louis Gunther of Nassau.
Jan 1, 2024 · Powers, Nassau and the Netherlands, in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, though with a particular emphasis on the era of the reconstruction of the post-Napoleonic international order, the years 1812-15. By viewing the agency of these historical actors through the prism of the dynastic network of the House of Nassau, rather than
