People from Lahn-Dill-Kreis - People from Dillenburg, People from Wetzlar, William the Silent, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Maurice of Nassau (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: People from Dillenburg, People from Wetzlar, William the Silent, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, John O. Meusebach, Mathis Mootz, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin, Karl von Abel, Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder, Ernst Casimir, Karl von Schonhals, Karl Rhein, John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Patrick Bernhardt, Klaus Enders, Friedrich Heusler, Kathrin Klaas, Maria Kliegel, Michael Keiner, Tile Kolup, Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg. Excerpt: William I, Prince of Orange (24 April 1533 - 10 July 1584), also widely known as William the Silent (Dutch: ), or simply William of Orange (Dutch: ), was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. He was born in the House of Nassau as Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. He became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau. A wealthy nobleman, William originally served the Habsburgs as a member of the court of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. Unhappy with the centralisation of political power away from the local estates and with the Spanish persecution of Dutch Protestants, William joined the Dutch uprising and turned against his former masters. The most influential and politically capable of the rebels, he led the Dutch to several successes in the fight against the Spanish. Declared an outlaw by the Spanish king in 1580, he was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard (also written as 'Gerardts') in Delft four years later. Castle of Dillenburg in the duchy Nassau, the birth place of William the Silent William was born on 24 April 1533 in the castle of Dillenburg in Nass...