Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nassau-Orange-Fulda was the name of a short-lived principality of the Holy Roman Empire, which was created for the Prince of Orange and existed only from 1803 to 1806. In 1795 the William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau lost all his possessions in the Low Countries because of the rise of the Batavian Republic, a client state of the French Republic. On May 23, 1802, France and Prussia concluded a treaty in which Fulda and some other areas were promised to the Prince of Orange as compensation for the loss of his domains in the Low Countries. Willem V refused at first, but later accepted the offer in favour for his son Prince Willem Frederik (later King William I of the Netherlands) to become the ruler of the new formed principality. On October 22 Prussian troops occupied the Diocese of Fulda to secure the interests of the prince and on 6 December Prince Willem Frederik held his entry in Fulda.