William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War

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William I (born April 24, 1533, Dillenburg, Nassau [now in Germany]—died July 10, 1584, Delft, Holland [now in the Netherlands]) was the first of the hereditary ...

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He was born in Dillenburg Castle in Nassau, now part of Germany, on 24 April 1533. When his cousin René de Chalon died in 1544, William was still living with ...

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William the Silent, William I, (1533–1584), Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt, founder of the House Orange-Nassau and the United Provinces as a state ...

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William was born on 24 April 1533 at Dillenburg Castle in the County of Nassau-Dillenburg, in the Holy Roman Empire (now in Hesse, German Federal Republic). He ...

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The revolt was led by Prince William I of Orange (1533 - 1584), stadholder of Holland and Zeeland (1533-1584). After his death his sons continued the ...

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William of Orange is known as the 'Father of the Fatherland'. His nickname was 'William the Silent', not because he said little but because he did not reveal ...

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William the Silent (l. 1533-1584, also known as William of Orange) was the leader of the Dutch Revolt (the Eighty Years' War) in the Netherlands.

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Prince of Orange. Born Willem von Nassau-Dillenburg the son of Wilhelm Graf von Nassau-Dillenburg and Juliane zu Stolberg-Wernigerode.

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Of the noblemen who rebelled against Phillip II's Spanish rule of the Netherlands, William of Orange rose to become the great leader of the Dutch Revolt.

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