Frederick Henry

Frederick Henry,

1584–1647, prince of Orange; son of William the SilentWilliam the Silent
or William of Orange
(William I, prince of Orange), 1533–84, Dutch statesman, principal founder of Dutch independence. Early Life
..... Click the link for more information. by Louise de Coligny. He became stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands upon the death (1625) of his brother Maurice of NassauMaurice of Nassau
, 1567–1625, prince of Orange (1618–25); son of William the Silent by Anne of Saxony. He became stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland after the assassination (1584) of his father.
..... Click the link for more information. . As a minor prince heading a federation of oligarchic republics, Frederick allied himself with other minor members and the puritans in order to maintain control during the Netherlands' struggle for independence from Spain. An able diplomat, he gained a subsidy from France to continue fighting, and allied with the British King Charles I by marrying his son, William, to Charles's daughter, Mary. In 1635 he concluded an alliance with France and Sweden against the Hapsburgs in the Thirty Years WarThirty Years War,
1618–48, general European war fought mainly in Germany. General Character of the War

There were many territorial, dynastic, and religious issues that figured in the outbreak and conduct of the war.
..... Click the link for more information. . By the capture of the frontier forts of Hertogenbosch (1629), Maastricht (1632), and Breda (1637), he became famous as a master of siegecraft. In 1631 the United Provinces showed their trust in his leadership by declaring the stadtholderate hereditary in his family. One year after his death the independence of the Netherlands was recognized in the Peace of Westphalia. His son, William II, succeeded him as stadtholder.

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A transition in 1625 from the Stadholder Prince Maurice to his younger brother Frederick Henry produced internal political strife in the Republic, as the Netherlands' competing Arminian and Counter-Remonstrant religious factions vied for influence over the new stadholder.

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He had an apprenticeship in the Thirty Years' War, serving, for example, in 1635, in the forces of Frederick Henry of Orange in their invasion of the Spanish Netherlands.

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The second investigates his position at the Orange court, first during the awkward years under Frederick Henry and then in the cordial, positive times under William II.

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Many of these pictures were from the collection of Gerard Reynst, who had bought the Vendramin collection in Venice, and this may have been the source of pictures Gerrit sold in 1671 to the Great Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William, who had studied in Leiden and married the daughter of Stadtholder Frederick Henry.

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In A Farewell to Arms (1929), Frederick Henry is living a relatively safe life as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I.

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one day we may live to see/A Frederick Henry on her knee,/Who mought to Europe give her law,/And keep encroaching Hell in awe' (Peacham, 1613: 36).

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