WILLIAM THE SILENT ORANGE
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Assassination of a Head of State
Prince William of Orange
Became born on 4th November 1650. A Dutchman by birth, part of the House of Orange, he would later reign as King of England, Scotland and Ireland until his death in 1702.
William’s reign came at a precarious time in Europe when religious divide dominated international relations. William would emerge as an important Protestant figurehead; the Orange Order in Northern Ireland is named after him. His victory at the Battle of Boyne on 12th July is still celebrated by many in Northern Ireland, Canada and parts of Scotland.
William’s story begins in the Dutch Republic. Born in November in The Hague he was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange and his wife Mary, who also happened to be the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. Unfortunately, William’s father, the prince, died two weeks before he was born, resulting in him assuming the title of Prince of Orange from birth.
As a young man growing up, he received tutelage from various governesses and later received lessons daily from a Calvinist preacher called Cornelis Trigland. These lessons instructed him as to the destiny he must fulfil as part of Divine Providence. William had been born into royalty and had a role to fulfil.
Prince William the Silent
He got shot in his letters and was found on the stairs of his residence in Delft. In 1581, when Gérard learned that Philip II had declared William an outlaw and promised a reward of 25,000 crowns for his assassination, he decided to travel to the Netherlands to kill William.
Philip's governor general wrote from the Low Countries: 'I cannot find a single penny. Nor can I see how the King could send money here, even if he had it in abundance. Short of a miracle, all this military machinery will fall into ruins. The assassination of William of Orange by a French Catholic in 1584 had immediate political consequences for the course of history. It was a serious setback for Protestants in the Netherlands, who were struggling for independence from the Catholic rule of the Hapsburg Empire.
The history of the Habsburg monarchy can be traced back to the election of Rudolf I as King of Germany in 1273 and his acquisition of the Duchy of Austria for the Habsburgs in 1282. In 1482, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage.
Both realms passed to his grandson and successor, Charles V, who also inherited the Spanish throne and its colonial possessions, and thus came to rule the Habsburg empire at its greatest territorial extent. The abdication of Charles V in 1556 led to a division within the dynasty between his son Philip II of Spain and his brother Ferdinand I, who had served as his lieutenant and the elected king of Hungary and Bohemia. The Spanish branch (which held all of Iberia, the Netherlands, and lands in Italy) became extinct in 1700.
William's image as a 'Christian soldier', fighting for political freedom and freedom of worship on behalf of his oppressed people, was decisively sharpened by the behavior of the Spanish Duke of Alva and his troops once Mons surrendered in mid-September 1572.
As the revolt in Brabant crumbled, Mechelen, which had supported William, yielded to Alva without a struggle. To encourage the capitulation of other Orange-supporting towns, Alva nevertheless allowed his men to sack the city.
On 14 November he did the same at Zutphen, where hundreds of the town's population were massacred. Finally, on 2 December 1572 at Naarden, as Alva became impatient to engineer a general capitulation in the region before winter set in, he ordered the killing of every man. Philip could now neither fund his Dutch operations nor disband his troops without payment. In the autumn of 1575 he ceased to be able to finance his mounting debt to his bankers in Genoa and was forced to suspend interest payments, effectively declaring bankruptcy. Royal finances in the Netherlands were completely paralysed. Philip's governor general wrote from the Low Countries:
'I cannot find a single penny. Nor can I see how the King could send money here, even if he had it in abundance. Short of a miracle, all this military machine will fall into ruins. '
Remember Kubus van Oorkonde, Prins de Gemaal and the Honorable Mr. Ambrosius the speaker's stable and Master of the Dutch Language of integrated Literature. His nephew robbed and wrote somewhere between the lines that there was a strange Rob a seadog spotted for the Dutch coast on the beach of Scheveningen near den Hague and banking savings.
In November, a large, mutinous troop of Spanish soldiers, idle, unfed and unpaid, ran out of control and attacked Antwerp. Orange and his propaganda machine exploited to the full the revulsion felt at the slaughter, pillage and rape that followed in Europe's greatest commercial and financial center. The 'Spanish Fury'—a' major and long-remembered atrocity—confirmed Philip II's rule as that of a tyrant, legitimizing an armed uprising against him by many who might otherwise have remained obedient to him as their divinely sanctioned sovereign.
Only for a brief period after Alva's arrival in the Low Countries in 1568, when he succeeded in raising significant but deeply unpopular taxes from the Dutch to finance Spain's military operations, did Philip have adequate resources for military success in one of his theaters of war. In 1571, thanks to Alva's Dutch taxation, the King of Spain was able to send a massive fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and inflict a crushing defeat on the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Le Panto.
Even so, the Turks made good on their naval losses remarkably swiftly, forcing Philip to allocate an even larger share of his resources to the Mediterranean campaign in 1572, and requiring him to pressure Alva to raise even more revenues through taxation for his Dutch campaign, thereby making the Spanish regime yet more unpopular in the Netherlands.
How the Prince of Orange came to have a price on his head.
Whose head was marked, as the one that must be silenced?
On July 10, 1584, Balthasar shot Gerard's William of Orange.
This takes place at the (Muse) Prinsenhof in Delft, where William of Orange has his court. William of Orange was then 51 years old. His murderer, Balthasar Gerard's, can be caught and sentenced to a terrible death. The archive of the Thiennes family² contains a wealth of information about matters that concerned Charles from his school notebooks from the Jesuit Kubus van Oorkonde grammar school in Mons in Wallonia and his plan to dig a canal from Mons to Ath, to detailed lease contracts and information about operating a beer house in Lombise.
🧩 Who is Honerè here?
Balthasar Honoré-de-Balzac-Gedenktafel
However, the documents regarding the Senate only form a small part and even then they are often printed documents such as an official appointment, a list of MPs, addresses of ministers and envoys, and so on.
Despite the prominent and yet influential position he held during his lifetime, no biography or article has ever been devoted to Charles Ignace Philippe, Count de Thiennes de Lombise. The history of the Dutch Kingdom deceits is written in severe multiplications. It is historical falsification to hide the horrible truth, with only one question left. Became William of Orange murdered on Reformation identities because he was strong against them?
According to 'Kubus van Oorkonde, who has an impeccable track record in Education, the objects hidden in the lead box of the time capsule are in an impeccable condition. 'However, the secrets must first be solved by the reader and young researcher in order to discover the secret of t' Loo Palace.
Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom.
Queen Wilhelmina was always forgiven for her sadness and loneness on those silent days at the palace of Loo. She could not speak openly about this secret tragedy. Wilhelmina could hardly bear the weight. She died lonely and sad on December 8, 1962.
Wilhelmina has always had a warm heart for those who carried the country forward during a difficult time. Although the war years were difficult for her, she accomplished her difficult task memorably, but with admiration, to the extent that we hold her in high esteem within our Christian tradition.
She was known for safeguarding her deeper layers of Christianity; although she rejected an overly strong Evangelical confession of faith, she continually searched for beloved ways, within the dilemma of reformed and reformed movements. It was not easy for her to maintain unity, especially because the imbalance within the religious force field in the years before the war resulted in a strongly divided country. Which, according to Wilhelmina, gave the wrong signal to the reform movements. Wilhelmina sought words of comfort and support:
Yet the hand of the Lord
has not been shortened
yet my Country is still
under the open sky
God is enthroned above
all the wicked turmoil
We have lost our rights
and our freedom
O Lord, and we pray
for the revelation of
Your righteousness
Wilhelmina spoke internally about shameless Reformation politics and about a lack of courage and loyalty. Publicly, she spoke covertly about the black church. She had an eye, but no understanding, for the Reformed pulpit. Her heart was loyal to the inner, of reformed Christianity. Due to the slow functioning of the church, it took almost three weeks before the letter went out to Seyss-Inquart.
It's almost too late. Newspapers were not allowed to write about that publicly initiative of observanceit, but through a pulpit proclamation on Sunday Oct. 27 1940, churchgoers were able to take note of the letter. The churches were completely full that Sunday in churches, also in the Catholic Church, there was a disgusted reaction to the contents of the letter.
However, the letter was kept secret in the churches of the Conservative black stocking widow's of the reformation congregations, Those empty church goeroes were not allowed to know, anything about it and what was going on in the country.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur where an Austrian Nazi, who has been in power over the Netherlands on behalf of Germany since May 1940. His words have a lot of influence. In March 1941 he gave a speech to the Dutch branch of the NSDAP (the German Nazi party). He speaks in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. This is broadcast on the radio, filmed for a newsreel and the text is also published in a brochure.
It is the relativity of earthly power that is expressed in the last judgment, in which we see how former princes, popes and prelates are just as likely to be taken to hell as less illustrious sinners of true Christianity. (John 5:26). Paul's mindfulness is always full meditation and yoga for being with him always and forever.
His critical empirical letters must come from somewhere. Reading keeps him awake for those who are afraid of the dark, looking for answers, and living their lives in the shadows of darkness.
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