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William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; [1] [2] 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands [3] [4] 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 ...
Given the monarchical ethos of the time, the revolt had to be justified partly – as William the Silent, the leader of the Dutch Revolt, put it – as an attempt whereby "the Republic’s ancient privileges and liberty should be restored"; [2] partly as directed against the royal councillors, not the king: [3] thus the legal fiction was ...
Gérard shooting William The bullet holes are still visible at the Museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft. On 10 July 1584, as William the Silent climbed the stairs to the second floor, he was spoken to by the Welsh captain Roger Williams, who knelt before him. William put his hand on the bowed head of the old captain, at which moment Gérard jumped ...
As early as 1887, the Holland Society had sought to install a prominent monument in New York City to celebrate the city's Dutch heritage. [9] The society agreed on William the Silent as the monument's subject in 1892 and was urged to install the monument in the city's Central Park.
Family in the Nieuwe Kerk with the monument of Willem the Silent, by Dirk van Delen, 1645. The New Church, formerly the church of St. Ursula (14th century), is the burial place of the princes of Orange. [2] The church is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, containing the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent.
The leader of the Dutch Revolt was William the Silent (William I of Orange); he had been appointed stadtholder in 1572 by the States of the first province to rebel, Holland, as a replacement of the royal stadtholder (He had previously held the post as an appointee of Philip II.). His personal influence and reputation was subsequently associated ...
[2] [3] The leader of the Dutch rebels, William the Silent, Prince of Orange, attempted a relief of Leiden by sending an army into the Netherlands under the command of his brother, Louis of Nassau. Valdez lifted the siege in April 1574 to face the invading rebel troops, but Sancho d'Avila reached them first and defeated them in the Battle of ...
William of Orange usually refers to either: William the Silent, William I, (1533–1584), Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt, founder of the House Orange-Nassau and the United Provinces as a state; William III of England, William III of Orange-Nassau, William II of Scotland, (1650–1702) stadtholder of the Dutch Republic