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Also Known As Willem Lodewijk
Born March 13, 1560 • Germany
Died July 13, 1620 (aged 60) • Leeuwarden • Netherlands
Role In Eighty Years’ War
Maurice, prince of Orange
Maurice
stadholder of The Netherlands
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Frederick Henry, prince of Orange, count of Nassau
prince of Orange
Portrait of William I, Prince of Orange, by Adriaen Thomasz Key. He wears a dark embroidered coat, a white ruff collar, and a black cap, with a trimmed beard and mustache.
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman
Maarten Tromp
Maarten Tromp
Dutch admiral
Louis of Nassau, panel portrait by an unknown artist, 1574; in the Orange Nassau Museum, Delft, Neth.
Louis of Nassau
Dutch political leader
John Maurice of Nassau
John Maurice Of Nassau
count of Nassau-Siegen
Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
Dutch engineer
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Jacob van Heemskerck
Dutch naval commander and merchant
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Piet Heyn
Dutch admiral
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza
Alessandro Farnese
regent of The Netherlands
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Ambrogio Spinola
Ambrogio di Filippo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases
Spanish military officer
Motley
John Lothrop Motley
American diplomat and writer
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Cornelis de Houtman
Dutch explorer
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Frederik de Houtman
Dutch explorer
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Dutch merchant and statesman
Johan De Witt
Johan De Witt
Dutch statesman
Cornelis Tromp, detail of an oil painting by Sir Peter Lely and Willem van de Velde; in the Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam
Cornelis Tromp
Dutch admiral