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William II (or Willem II), Prince of Orange, was born on 27 May 1626, as the first legitimate child and elder son of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and his wife Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. [1] Frederick Henry was the youngest son of William the Silent (stadtholder 1559–1584); his older half brother Maurits of Nassau was Stadtholder (1585 ...
William II was the son of William I and Wilhelmine of Prussia. When his father, who up to that time ruled as sovereign prince , proclaimed himself king in 1815, he became Prince of Orange as heir apparent of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands .
William's parents, William II of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal, 1647. William III was born in The Hague in the Dutch Republic on 4 November 1650. [c] [2] Baptised William Henry (Dutch: Willem Hendrik), he was the only child of Mary, Princess Royal, and stadtholder William II, Prince of Orange.
Prince Frederick Henry of Orange died on 14 March 1647. On the day of his death, Parliament was convened, which proclaimed William II to be his father's heir as stadtholder and head of the army; one by one, the remaining titles of her late father-in-law were recognized for Mary's husband, and he became the new Prince of Orange. [9]
The following is a family tree for the Princes of Orange, a line which culminated in the Dutch monarchy with the accession of Prince William VI to the newly created throne of the Netherlands in 1815. Dates given are those of birth and death; for Princes of Orange (shown in bold), the intermediate date is the date of accession to the Princedom.
William II, Prince of Orange (1626–1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1647; William IV, Prince of Orange (1711–1751), first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands; William V, Prince of Orange (1748–1806), last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and leader of the conservative faction
Prince of Orange 1502–1530: William I "the Silent" 1533–1584 Prince of Orange 1544 Stadholder of Holland, Zealand & Utrecht: Louis 1538–1574: Adolf 1540–1568: Henry 1550–1574: John VI "the Elder" 1536–1606 Stadholder of Gelderland: René of Chalon 1519–1544 Prince of Orange r.1521: Philip William 1554–1618 Prince of Orange r ...
The Prince of Orange at a later age. After attempts to marry Prince William off to Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria or Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia failed, the prince fell in love with the 19-year-old Countess Mathilde van Limburg-Stirum in 1873. The relationship between the prince and ...