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ROYAL
RULERS
First
king was count William II of Holland. On October
3th 1247 he was elected king of the Holy Roman
Empire. Before he could be crowned emperor he was
killed by the Friesians on January 28th 1256 near
Hoogwoud in the West-Friesian part of North
Holland. Nevertheless the people of Holland own
the right to be addressed as “Royal Dutch People
of Holland“ to this period.
After
the House of Holland deceased, rulers of Hinault,
Bavaria and Habsburg came and went. Holland
fought Philips II of Spain, overlord of The
Netherlands, during the Dutch war of
Independence(1568-1648). In 1648 Holland
integrated in the Republic of the Seven United
Netherlands.
In 1795
Napoleon occupied Holland and soon his brother
Louis was introduced as the first king of Holland
since William II The Great was elected emperor in
the middleages. After king Louis of Holland fled
his Haarlem palace, he was succeeded by his son
for some days.The great Allied powers decreed
that Holland and Belgium would become the
Netherlands. Instead of returning to a republic,
new candidates popped up to occupy the throne.
One of them was a so called William “of
Orange“. People were made believe that he was a
descendant of William of Nassau-Dillenburg, also
known as William the Silent, a noblemen who
revolted against the Spanish rule in Holland. In
the end of the 15th century this German William
inherited the Principality of Orange in the South
of France and by this the title “Prince of
Orange“. His bloodline vanished in 1703 by the
death of Orange William that married queen Mary
of England. The “reborn Orange“ actual was
descendant of Heinrich Kasimir of Nassau-Dietz.
The Treaty of Paris (1814) provided that the
Netherlands and Belgium be united into a single
kingdom and William was proclaimed its first king
of The Netherlands. By 1830 the Belgians'
patience had run out with their Orange-king.
Revolution erupted in Brussels and quickly spread
across the country. William made a brief effort
to regain control in the south of his kingdom,
but within a few months he withdrew. On 20
January, 1831 Belgium was recognized as an
independent nation. They stipulated by law that
never ever an Orange could inherit the Belgian
crown. So they were put under the rule of the
German Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. The Belgians
withhold their new king under a constitution that
significantly limited the power of the monarch.
The northern part had to deal with Oranges that
revolted heavy against the slightest restriction
of royal power. King William almost blow to
pieces when one of his subjects suggested that
what was left of his kingdom better change its
name to Holland. The king died in 1843 in Berlin,
his descendants still rule the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, the present being Queen Beatrix.
NATIONAL
ANTHEM
OF THE KINGDOM
OF THE NETHERLANDS
(Words of the 1ste verse of 16)
William of Nassau, I am of
German blood
'Till I die I remain devoted to the homeland
Dauntless I am, a prince of Orange,
I have always glorified the king of Spain
(Wilhelmus van Nassauwe,
ben ick von Duitse bloed. Den vaderland getrouwe,
blijf ik tot in den doet. Een prinse van Oranje,
ben ik vrij onverveert. Den koning van
Hispaniėn, heb ick altijd geėerd)
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