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1998 second edition, L.F.M. van de Pas (Mosman Park, Western Australia), 8 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to spine, color frontispiece, extensively indexed, [10], 467 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce history and genealogy of William 'The Silent' Prince of Orange. OCLC (No. 866770326) locates only one copy - at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~NNN~ [4.5P] Traces the known descendants of William I 'The Silent,' Prince of Orange (1533-1584), an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War, and the first leader of the Netherlands. William of Orange is better known as William the Silent (in Dutch: Willem de Zwijger). It is uncertain how he got this name. One story says that when the kings of France and Spain proposed to William to kill all Protestants in his area, William did not reply. William was born in April 1533 in Dillenburg, Prussia. He married four times and was the father of sixteen children. He was assassinated in July 1584 in Delft, south Holland. Descendants and relatives lived throughout Europe. Contents: Descendants List; Biographies; Index; Bibliography. Among hundreds of others, the surnames which receive the most extensive coverage include: von Anhalt, von Anhalt-Bernburg, von Anhault-Dessau, Ardin, d'Aumont, Bauyn, zu Bentheim und Steinfurt, Bentinck, de Bigot de Villandry, de Bons, de Bourbon, de Bourbon-Conde, de Bourbon-Conti, von Brandenburg (-Ansbach, -Bayreuth, -Schwedt), of Brunswick (-Bevern, -Luneburg, -Wolfenbuttel), Butler, van Cats, des Champs, von Closen-Haydenburg, Colbert, du Coster, Croll, von Degenfeld-Schonburg, zu Dohna (-Lauck, -Reichertswalde, - Schlobitten), de Durfort, d'Este, Fitzroy, de France, de Franquetot, Fraser, von Furstenwarther, van Gendt, von Hauau-Munzenberg, von Hannover, von Heiden, von Hessen (-Darmstadt, -Homburg, -Kassel, -Philippsthal, -Rheinfels-Rotenburg), von Holstein, von Hompesch, Howe, zu Isenbur und Budingen, zu Ysenburg und Budingen, de la Harpe, de La Rochefoucauld, de La Tour d'Auvergne, de La Tremouille, de Lorraine, Mackenzie, de Mailly, de Martines, Murray, van Nassau (-Dietz, -Dillenburg, -La Lecq, -Orange, -Siegen, -Zuylenstein), von der Pfalz, von Pollnitz, van Randwijck, van Rechteren, van Reede, Rochmondet, de Rohan, Royard, zu Salm, von Simmern, zu Solms (-Baruth, -Braunfels, -Laubach, -Sonnenwalde), Stanley, van Tuyll van Serooskerken, des Vignes, Wijnants, von Wurttemberg, von Zweibrucken, von Zweibrucken-Landsberg.
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