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Paternal Family Tree: Orange
On 6th July 1551 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 18) and Anna Egmond Princess Orange were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.
On 25th August 1561 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 28) and Anna of Saxony (age 16) were married. She by marriage Princess Orange. They had two sons, one of which died in infancy, and three daughters.
On 24th June 1575 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 42) and Charlotte Bourbon Princess Orange (age 28) were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.
On 24th April 1583 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 50) and [his mother] Louise Coligny Princess Orange were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.
On 29th January 1584 Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange was born to William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 50) and Louise Coligny Princess Orange.
On 10th July 1584 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 51) died. His son [his half-brother] Philip (age 29) succeeded William I Prince Orange.
In 1623 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt (age 56). Portrait of Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 38).
In 1625 Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 40) and Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 22) were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.
On 23rd April 1625 [his half-brother] Prince Maurice I of Orange (age 57) died. His half brother Frederick (age 41) succeeded II Prince Orange.
On 27th May 1626 [his son] William Orange Nassau II Prince Orange was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 42) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 23).
In 1627 Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 42) was appointed 425th Knight of the Garter by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 26).
On 7th December 1627 [his daughter] Luise Henriette Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 43) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 25).
On 26th October 1628 [his daughter] Henriëtte Amalia Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 44) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 26).
In December 1628 [his daughter] Henriëtte Amalia Orange Nassau died.
On 4th August 1630 [his daughter] Elisabeth Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 46) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 27).
On 28th April 1632 [his daughter] Isabella Charlotte Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 48) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 29).
Around 1634 Anthony Van Dyck (age 34). Portrait of Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 49).
On 9th April 1634 [his daughter] Albertine Agnes Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 50) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 31).
On 10th February 1637 [his daughter] Henriette Catherine Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 53) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 34).
On 30th November 1639 [his son] Hendrik Lodewijk Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 55) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 37).
On 19th December 1639 [his son] Hendrik Lodewijk Orange Nassau died.
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 2nd May 1641 [his son] William Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 14) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Stewart Princess Orange (age 9) were married. She the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 40) and Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England (age 31).
On 17th May 1642 [his daughter] Isabella Charlotte Orange Nassau (age 10) died.
On 5th September 1642 [his daughter] Maria Orange Nassau was born to Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 58) and [his wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 40).
On 7th December 1646 [his son-in-law] Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg (age 26) and [his daughter] Luise Henriette Orange Nassau (age 19) were married at The Hague. They were half first cousin once removed.
On 14th March 1647 Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange (age 63) died. His son [his son] William (age 20) succeeded II Prince Orange. [his daughter-in-law] Mary Stewart Princess Orange (age 15) by marriage Princess Orange.
On 8th September 1675 [his former wife] Amalia Solms Braunfels Princess Orange (age 73) died.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th September 1677. His lady (age 43) (being one of the Brederode's daughters, grandchild to a natural son of Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange) [Note. Evelyn confused here. Elisabeth Nassau Beverweert Countess Arlington was the daughter of Louis Nassau Beverweert who was the illegitimate son of [his half-brother] Prince Maurice I of Orange. Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange was the younger brother of Prince Maurice I of Orange.] is a good-natured and obliging woman. They love fine things, and to live easily, pompously, and hospitably; but, with so vast expense, as plunges my Lord (age 59) into debts exceedingly. My Lord himself is given into no expensive vice but building, and to have all things rich, polite, and princely. He never plays, but reads much, having the Latin, French, and Spanish tongues in perfection. He has traveled much, and is the best bred and courtly person his Majesty (age 47) has about him, so as the public Ministers more frequent him than any of the rest of the nobility. While he was Secretary of State and Prime Minister, he had gotten vastly, but spent it as hastily, even before he had established a fund to maintain his greatness; and now beginning to decline in favour (the Duke being no great friend of his), he knows not how to retrench. He was son of a Doctor of Laws, whom I have seen, and, being sent from Westminster School [Map] to Oxford, with intention to be a divine, and parson of Arlington, a village near Brentford, when Master of Arts the Rebellion falling out, he followed the King's Army, and receiving an HONORABLE WOUND IN THE FACE, grew into favor, and was advanced from a mean fortune, at his Majesty's Restoration, to be an Earl and Knight of the Garter, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and first favorite for a long time, during which the King married his natural son, the Duke of Grafton (age 13), to his only daughter (age 9) and heiress, as before mentioned, worthy for her beauty and virtue of the greatest prince in Christendom. My Lord is, besides this, a prudent and understanding person in business, and speaks well; unfortunate yet in those he has advanced, most of them proving ungrateful. The many obligations and civilities I have received from this noble gentleman, extracts from me this character, and I am sorry he is in no better circumstances.
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GrandFather: William "The Rich" I Count of Nassau Dillenburg
Frederick Henry Orange Nassau II Prince Orange
Mother: Louise Coligny Princess Orange