Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau

Guillaume IV Charles Henri Friso (in Dutch Willem IV Carel Hendrik Friso van Oranje-Nassau) born in 1711 with Leeuwarden, deceased in 1751 with $the Hague.

Guillaume IV, prince d' Orange, Guillaume III Stathouder of Gueldre, Guillaume II stahouder of Plank, Guillaume Ier stathouder of Groningen.

He was prince de Nassau-Dietz, prince of Orange-Nassau of 1711 with 1751, stathouder of Frise of 1711 with 1747, stahouder of Groningen of 1718 with 1747, stathouder of Gueldre and Drenthe of 1722 with 1747, stathouder of Holland, stathouder of Zealand, stathouder of Overijssel of 1747 with 1747, stathouder of Utrecht of 1747 with 1747, stathouder of the United Provinces of 1747 to 1751.

Family

Wire of Jean Guillaume Friso d' Orange (1687 - 1711), prince de Nassau-Dietz, prince d' Orange, hereditary count de Katzenelnbogen, stathouder of Plank (1696 - 1711), stathouder of Groningue (1708 - 1711), general captain and admiral of the United Provinces, and Marie Louise de Hesse-Cassel (1688 - 1765).

Marry, the March 25th 1734, in London, Anne of Hanover (1709 - 1759), girl of George II Auguste, King de Grande-Bretagne and of Ireland.

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Biography

In 1739, Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau inherited the fields formerly had by the line of Nassau-Dillenbourg, in 1743, it inherited the possessions of the Nassau-Siegen.

In a spirit of appeasing concerning the internal disagreements opposing the various factions, in 1747, the Parliament of the Netherlands named hereditary Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau stathouder general of each of the seven provinces (Utrecht, Holland, Frise, Groningen, Zealand, Drenthe and of Overijssel).

Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau accompanied by his family left Leeuwarden for $the Hague where they settled.

In spite of his inexperience in the businesses of State, Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau managed to obtain a certain popularity near his subjects. He put an end to the practice of the indirect imposition by which the contractors managed to make large benefit. But, he was managing director of the German Company of the Is India and its alliance with the racketeers caused the development of the disparity between the poor and the rich person.

Its mandement as a stathouder of the seven provinces of the United Provinces is marked timorées waltz hesitations and companies. Guillaume IV was especially worried by the re-establishment of the functions of the stathoudérat after the Second period without stathouder which marked the political life of the Republic at the beginning of the XVIIIe century. He rested inter alia on his wife and Willem Bentinck van Rhoon for the adviser.

Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau belongs to the sixth branch (Nassau-Dietz), itself resulting from the second branch (Nassau-Dillenbourg) of the Maison of Nassau. This line of Nassau-Dietz which became Orange-Nassau line belongs to the stem ottonienne which gave stathouders to the Holland, the Gueldre, the Zealand, etc, a king with the England and the Scotland in the person of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau, kings and queens with the Netherlands.

Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau is the ascending one of the queen Béatrix of the Netherlands.

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External bonds and sources

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