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Paternal Family Tree: Orange
Maternal Family Tree: Anna Schaunberg 1370-1396
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 [his mother] 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 13th November 1567 Prince Maurice I of Orange was born to William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 34) and Anna of Saxony (age 22).
On 24th June 1575 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 42) and [his step-mother] Charlotte Bourbon Princess Orange (age 28) were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.
On 18th December 1577 [his mother] Anna of Saxony (age 32) died.
On 24th April 1583 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 50) and Louise Coligny Princess Orange were married. She by marriage 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 1602 [his illegitimate son] Louis Nassau Beverweert was born illegitimately to Prince Maurice I of Orange (age 34) and Margaretha van Mechelen (age 22).
In 1612 Prince Maurice I of Orange (age 44) was appointed 409th Knight of the Garter by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 45)..
After 20th February 1613 Frederick Palatinate Simmern V Elector Palatine Rhine (age 16) and Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia (age 16) commenced their journey to his home at Heidelburg. They visited Prince Maurice I of Orange (age 45). They arrived in Heidelburg on 12th June 1613 amidst widespread celebration.
John Harington 1st Baron Harington (age 73) and Anne Keilway Baroness Harington (age 59)
Sisters Elizabeth Apsley and Alice Apsley travelled as Maids of Honour to Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia.
On 20th February 1618 [his half-brother] Philip William Orange Nassau I Prince Orange (age 63) died. His half brother Prince (age 50) succeeded I Prince Orange.
On 23rd April 1625 Prince Maurice I of Orange (age 57) died. His half brother [his half-brother] Frederick (age 41) succeeded II Prince Orange.
Before 27th June 1641 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt (age 75). Portrait of Prince Maurice I of Orange.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 17th August 1641. I passed again through Delft, and visited the church in which was the monument of [his father] Prince William of Nassau, - the first of the Williams, and saviour (as they call him) of their liberty, which cost him his life by a vile assassination. It is a piece of rare art, consisting of several figures, as big as the life, in copper. There is in the same place a magnificent tomb of his son and successor, Maurice. The Senate-house hath a very stately portico, supported with choice columns of black marble, as I remember, of one entire stone. Within, there hangs a weighty vessel of wood, not unlike a butter-churn, which the adventurous woman that hath two husbands at one time is to wear on her shoulders, her head peeping out at the top only, and so led about the town, as a penance for her incontinence. From hence, we went the next day to Itvswick, a stately country-house of the Prince of Orange, for nothing more remarkable than the delicious walks planted with lime trees, and the modern paintings within.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th September 1677. His [his granddaughter] lady (age 43) (being one of the [his illegitimate son] Brederode's daughters, grandchild to a natural son of [his half-brother] 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 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 [his grandson-in-law] 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 [his great granddaughter] 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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Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
GrandFather: William "The Rich" I Count of Nassau Dillenburg
Prince Maurice I of Orange 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick I Duke Saxony
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick II Duke Saxony 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Albert III Duke Saxony 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ernest "The Iron" Habsburg I Duke Austria
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret of Austria
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cymburgis Masovia Duchess Austria
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry IV Duke Saxony 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: Maurice Elector of Saxony 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry IV Duke of Mecklenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Magnus II Duke of Mecklenburg
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine of Mecklenburg Duchess of Saxony
Mother: Anna of Saxony 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis I Landgrave of Hesse
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis II Landgrave of Hesse 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Saxong Landgravine of Hesse 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William II Landgrave of Hesse 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Agnes of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick II Duke Saxony 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Albert III Duke Saxony 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret of Austria
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Duke of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Władysław II Jagiełło
Great x 3 Grandfather: Casimir IV King Poland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophia of Halshany
Great x 2 Grandmother: Barbara Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Albert Habsburg V Duke Austria 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elisabeth Habsburg Queen Consort Poland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Luxemburg Duchess Austria 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England