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William II, Prince of Orange (
May 27,
1626 –
November 6,
1650),
stadtholder of the
United Provinces of the Netherlands from
March 14,
1647 until his death.
William II, Prince of Orange, was the son of
stadtholder Frederik Hendrik of Orange and
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels.
William the Silent had been succeeded in the position of stadtholder and as military commander by his son
Maurits of Nassau, who in turn was followed by his brother Frederick Henry. William II’s ancestors governed in conjunction with the
States-General, an assembly made up of representatives of each of the seven provinces but usually dominated by the largest and wealthiest province,
Holland.
On
May 2,
1641 William married
Mary Henrietta Stuart, the Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of
King Charles I of England and
Queen Henrietta Maria in the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall Palace, London.
In 1648 he opposed acceptance of the Treaty of Münster, despite the fact that it recognized the independence of the Netherlands. Secretly, William opened his own negotiations with France with the goal of extending his own territory under a centralized government. In addition, he worked for the restoration of his brother-in-law,
Charles II, to the throne of England.
In 1650 William II became involved in a bitter quarrel with the province of Holland and the powerful merchants of Amsterdam, like
Andries Bicker over troop reduction following the
Treaty of Münster. William opposed the reduction in the size of the army which would diminish his powerbase. This resulted in William putting eight members of the provincial assembly in prison in the castle of
Loevestein. In addition he sent his cousin
Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz with an army of 10 thousand troops with
the aim of taking Amsterdam by force. Bad weather foiled this campaign
1.
After having served as stadtholder of Holland,
Zeeland,
Utrecht,
Guelders and
Overijssel for only three years, he died of smallpox in 1650. His son
William was born one week after his death. This was the beginning of the 'First Stadtholderless Era' for the provinces Holland,
Zeeland,
Utrecht,
Guelders and
Overijssel. His son succeeded him in
1672 as stadtholder and later, in
1689, also became king of England.
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