• following is a list of grand pensionaries of Holland, Zeeland and the Batavian Republic. During the time of the Dutch Republic, the grand pensionary was the...
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  • grand pensionary personally. Large parts of the correspondence of the various grand pensionaries have been preserved, forming an important source of information...
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    advocate. The earliest pensionaries in the county of Holland were those of Dordrecht (1468) and of Haarlem (1478). The pensionary conducted the town's legal...
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  • (1672–1702) Grand pensionaries (complete list) – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Grand Pensionary (1586–1619) Andries de Witt, Grand Pensionary (1619–1621)...
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  • list) – William III, Stadtholder (1672–1702) William IV, Stadtholder (1747–1751) William V, Stadtholder (1751–1795) Grand pensionaries (complete list)...
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  • the List of state leaders in the 16th-century Holy Roman Empire Stadtholders (complete list) – Maurice, Stadtholder (1585–1625) Grand pensionaries (complete...
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  • grand pensionaries (Holland, Zeeland, Batavian Republic) List of heirs to the Dutch throne List of stadtholders in the Netherlands List of monarchs of the...
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    History of the Netherlands Union of Utrecht Eighty Years' War Dutch Golden Age List of grand pensionaries Land's Advocate of Holland Stadholder List of stadtholders...
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    Aert van der Goes (category Grand Pensionaries)
    consisted of black three gold-silver horned goats heads, and the crest a silver bokkenkop between two silver pheasant feathers. List of grand pensionaries...
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  • presidency. The president, selected from one of the provincial delegations, assisted by one or two of the pensionaries, would preside over the meetings for a...
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    against his taking a role as a forceful political leader, as other Grand Pensionaries, like Johan de Witt, and to a lesser extent, Gaspar Fagel and Heinsius...
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    requirement for all the pensionaries. At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state and had to be renovated to house the winners of the Prix de Rome...
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    supported the Dutch Republic as part of a general policy of opposing Habsburg power. Johan de Witt, Dutch Grand Pensionary from 1653 to 1672, viewed this as...
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    two prominent anti-monarchist politicians, the grand pensionary of Holland (and de facto prime minister of the Netherlands) Johan de Witt and his brother...
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    was interpreted as a political allegory of grand pensionary (the highest official in Holland, the main province of the Dutch Republic) Johan de Witt protecting...
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    Pieter Steyn (category Grand Pensionaries)
    Dutch government official. He was grand pensionary of Holland from June 18, 1749 to November 5, 1772. Over the course of his career, he also served as an...
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    afterwards of Dordrecht. In 1627 Cats came to England on a mission to Charles I, who made him a knight. In 1636 he was made Grand Pensionary of Holland,...
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  • This is a list of personal titles arranged in a sortable table. They can be sorted: Alphabetically By language, nation, or tradition of origin By function...
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    the instability of the Batavian regime. He attributed this to its political organization and the weak position of the Grand Pensionary. In his eyes, only...
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    government chiefly through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel. This de facto status of Anglo-Prussian protectorate was internationally...
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  • Spain Johan de Witt (1625–1672), Grand Pensionary of Holland, statesman who played an important role in the Republic of the United Netherlands Cornelis...
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  • Van Den Spiegel (category Surnames of Dutch origin)
    Dutch Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and Holland Tomas Van Den Spiegel (born 1978), Belgian basketball player Spiegel, van der at the Database of Surnames...
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    Negotiations were held between Marlborough, Anthonie Heinsius, Grand pensionary of Holland and the Austrian envoy Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz...
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    Ruyter at the Battle of Solebay. Shortly thereafter, Johan de Witt resigned as Grand Pensionary, and Charles' nephew William III of Orange was appointed...
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  • ratification of the United States Constitution, in 1787 and 1788, a large number of writers in the popular press used pseudonyms. This list shows some of the more...
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  • University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-84352-9 Rowen, Herbert. John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672, pp. 363-378 (Princeton University Press, 2015)...
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  • return of the colony in May 1654. The Province of Zeeland had the most to gain from the return of the colony, but Johan de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland...
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  • Philip of Noircarmes, Stadtholder (1573–1574) Gillis van Berlaymont, Stadtholder (1574–1577) William I, Stadtholder (1572–1584) Grand pensionaries (complete...
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  • Minister of Ghana 1969–72 Ditmir Bushati, Albanian politician John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, U.K. Prime Minister 1762–63 Paulus Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland...
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    attached to the banner of the House of Orange. The latter group were the Republicans, led by the Grand Pensionary (a sort of prime minister) and the regents...
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