WILLIAMS OF ORANGE
Sir,-I should like to refer to the short article "Christian v. Saracen" on page 34 of your issue of September 18. The ancient town of Orange near Avignon in the South of France, whose Count William is the hero of a Chanson de Geste, is no doubt an ancestor of our own William of Orange and of the present ruler of the Netherlands, as it is indeed the town from which the family took its name. In the 16th century the principality of Orange was inherited, along with some territory in the Netherlands, by William of Nassau (the Silent). The family was thereafter known as OrangeNassau. William, as a boy, was a favourite of Emperor Charles V who appointed him Stadtholder of yet more provinces in the Netherlands. He took up the case of the Dutch against their Spanish rulers, and when they finally won their independence, ‘princes of the House of Orange became Stadtholders, ultimately hereditary. Incidentally, so many Williams are confusing: those of the 17th and 18th centuries are princes-stadtholders-and those of the 19th are kings.
I.W.
T.
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 11
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