Adriaan G. Jongkees
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Former Professor of Medieval History, State University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Author of Het koninkrijk Friesland in de vijftiende eeuw.
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William I was the first of the hereditary stadtholders (1572–84) of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and leader of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule and the Catholic religion. William, the eldest son of William, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, grew up in a cultivated Lutheran…
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