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Noun Named Entity
Categories: People of the French Wars of Religion, German people of the Eighty Years' War, People from Dillenburg, Lords of Breda, People murdered in the Netherlands
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William the Silent  Maria of Nassau  Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau William  Anna I von Nassau  Anna von Nassau
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William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Wikipedia
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William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Wikipedia
Prince of Orange Wikipedia Disambiguation
Count of Nassau ; later Willem of Orange Wikipedia Disambiguation
William I,, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt, founder of the House Orange-Nassau and the United Provinces as a state Wikipedia Disambiguation
Dutch statesman and revolt leader Wikidata
IS A
homo
ALLEGIANCE
Dutch Republic
CHILD
Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau
Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau
Countess Elisabeth of Nassau
Countess Emilia of Nassau
Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau
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DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Canon of Dutch History
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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DIFFERENT FROM
William III
FAMILY
House of Nassau
House of Orange-Nassau
FATHER
William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
GIVEN NAME
Willem
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Museum Paleis het Loo
KILLED BY
Balthasar Gérard
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Dutch
German
MANNER OF DEATH
homicide
MILITARY RANK
captain
MOTHER
Juliana of Stolberg
NOBLE TITLE
Prince of Orange
OCCUPATION
serviceman
politician
OWNER OF
The Garden of Earthly Delights
PLACE OF BIRTH
Dillenburg
PLACE OF BURIAL
Nieuwe Kerk
PLACE OF DEATH
Delft
POSITION HELD
stadtholder
RELATIVE
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels
RELIGION
Calvinism
Catholicism
Lutheranism
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Maria of Nassau
Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg
Adolf of Nassau
Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg
Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg
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SPOUSE
Charlotte of Bourbon
Anna van Egmont
Anna of Saxony
Louise de Coligny
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William the Silent
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William the Silent
Wikipedia Redirections
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Anna I von Nassau, Anna von Nassau, Assassination of William the Silent, Maria of Nassau (1553-1554), Maurits August Philips von Nassau, Prince William I of Orange, Prince William of Orange I, Vader des Vaderlands, Wilhelm I, Prince of Orange, Will de Zwijg, Will de Zwijger, Willem de Zwijger, Willem I of Orange, Willem the Silent, Willem Van Orange, Willem van Oranje, William I, Prince of Orange, William I, Prince of Orange-Nassau, William I (of Orange), William I of Orange, William I of Orange-Nassau, William I Prince of Orange, William The Silent, William the Taciturn
Wikidata Alias
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de Nassau Guillaume, der Schweiger Wilhelm, di Sāyaleṇṭa Vuilyama, le Taciturne Guillaume, Prince of Oholage William I, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau William, prince of Orange, count of Nassau William, prins van Oranje, graaf van Nassau Dutch Willem, print︠s︡ Oranzhskiĭ i Nassau Vilʹfelʹm, the Great William, Vader des Vaderlands Willem van Oranje, Willem de Zwijger, William 01 of Orange-Nassau, William I, Prince of Orange, William I of Orange-Nassau, William of Orange, William the Taciturn

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