== Armorial of the House of Nassau ==
This page shows the coats of arms, heraldic achievements, and heraldic flags of the House of Nassau. It is not part of any project. Changes to this page are to be discussed and voted on in the discussion page in accordance with the rules of Wikipedia.
It should also be noted that in accordance with the principles of Heraldry, there is no right or wrong style to depict a coat of arms or achievement. Styles vary by time and country and the skill and preference of the artist. Any drawing based on its corresponding blazon (definition) is correct so long as the artist makes the coat of arms in line with the textual blazon and that the representation is readily recognizable as such by a herald.[1] (See Definition and representation of a coat of arms) This is unlike logos and emblems where the representation must be the official one as they are trademarks and governed under trademark law.
Both the coat of arms and the achievement are shown below. This is in order to be as complete as possible as an achievement, armorial achievement or heraldic achievement (historical: hatchment) in heraldry is a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled.[2] An achievement comprises not only the arms themselves displayed on the Escutcheon, the central element, but also the elements surrounding it: e.g. Crest, Mantling, Helm of appropriate variety; a Coronet or Crown if entitled, Supporters, Motto, etc.
Also included in the royal family section are the Flags of the Dutch royal family. While not strictly a heraldic flag or a banner of arms, they are influenced by are heavily influenced by heraldry. The flags indicate the presence of the bearer, and they are presented here for that reason. Flags of those born into the royal family feature a Nassau-blue cross on an orange field, while the colours are reversed for those who marry into the family. Males have near-square flags while those of females are swallowtailed. Elements of an individual's family coat of arms are also incorporated into the flags.
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The ancestral coat of arms of the Ottonian line of the house of Nassau is shown below. Their distant cousins of the Walramian line added a red coronet to distinguish them. There is no documentation on how and why these arms came to be. As a symbol of nobility, the lion was always a popular in western culture going all the way back to Hercules. Using the heraldic insignia of a dominant power was a way, and still is a way, to show loyalty to that power. Not using that insignia is a way to show independence. The Netherlands, as territories bordering on the Holy Roman Empire with its Roman eagle and France with its Fleur-de-lis, had many examples of this. The lion was so heavily used in the Netherlands for various provinces and families (see Leo Belgicus) that it became the national arms of the Dutch Republic, its successor states the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Blue, because of its nearness to purple, which in the northern climes tended to fade (red was the other choice), was also a popular color for those with royal aspirations. The billets could have been anything from blocks of wood to abstractions of the reinforcements holding the shield together. The fact that these were arms were very similar to those of the counts of Burgundy (Franche-Comté) did not seem to cause too much confusion. It also held with one of the basic tenants of heraldry, that arms could not be repeated within a kingdom, but Nassau was considered to be in the Kingdom of Germany, while Franche Comté was in the kingdom of Burgundy (see also Scrope v Grosvenor)[3][4].
Coats of arms of sovereignty also show the territories that the dynasty claims to rule over. The principle ones are depicted below, i.e.
Then,
And in Germany,
Finally, in the Netherlands, the real base of their wealth and power:
Besides being sovereign over the principality of Orange, this is a partial listing of larger estates and titles that William the Silent and his heirs possessed, most enfeoffed to some other sovereign, either the King of France, the Habsburgs, or the States of the provinces of the Netherlands, but not generally displayed in their main arms.[5]:
In most of the estates in the more populous provinces of Holland and Zealand, the land itself was secondary to the profit on the commerce that flowed through it.
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Arms of Adolf of Nassau, King of Germany/King of the Romans) (1292-1298) | Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890-1898) | Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1898-2000) | Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (2000-present) | Personal Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (2000-present) |
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Arms of René of Chalon and Nassau as Prince of Orange 1530-1544 | Arms of the Prince of Orange 1544-1582, 1584-1618 | Arms of the Prince of Orange 1582-1584, 1625-1702 | Alternate arms of the Prince of Orange | William III]] as King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1688-1702 |
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Arms of the King of the Netherlands 1815-1907 | Arms of the Queens and King of the Netherlands 1907-present | Arms of the Prince of Orange/Crown Prince of the Netherlands, 1980-2013 | Arms of the Princess of Orange/Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 2013-present |
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Dudo ( † 1117), Count of Laurenbourg approx. 1093 to 1117.
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Walram II, Count of Nassau, Co-count of Nassau from 1249 to 1255, count of Nassau-Wiesbaden, count of Nassau-Idstein from 1255 to 1276,
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Adolf of Germany (v. 1255- 2 july 1298), king of Germany (formally king of the Romans) from 1292 to 1298, count of Nassau-Wiesbaden, count of Nassau-Weilburg, count of Nassau-Idstein from 1276 to 1298.
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En 1605, les possessions de Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein furent intégrées aux possessions de Nassau-Weilbourg-Sarrebrück.
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John Ist of Nassau-Weilburg, co-count of Nassau-Weilburg (1355-1371), count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 à 1371),
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Philip Ist of Nassau-Weilburg, Co-count of Nassau, count of Nassau-Wiesbaden, count of Nassau-Idstein, count of Nassau-Sarrebrück, count of Nassau-Neuweilnau,
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William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590- 1640), count of Nassau-Sarrebruck, count of Nassau-Ottweiler 1629 to 1640,
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John Ernst, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, count 1675 to 1719,
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in 1816, the princes of Nassau-Weilburg had inherited all the other Walramian Nassau territories by the family compact and by the Congress of Vienna became dukes of Nassau.
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William, Duke of Nassau, (1792-1839) duke of Nassau 1816 à 1839,
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Adolphe Ier of Luxembourg, duke of Nassau 1839 à 1866, grand-duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905),
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Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, grand-duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000), son of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma,
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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (1955) grand-duke of Luxembourg (2000),son of preceding,
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Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (1981) crown prince (2000), eldest child of the preceding,
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Otho I of Nassau (1247 † 1290), co-count of Nassau, count of Nassau-Siegen, count of Nassau-Dillenbourg, count of Nassau-Beilstein, count of Nassau-Ginsberg,
D'azur semé de billettes d'or, au lion du même, armé et lampassé de gueules, brochant sur le tout[8]. or Azure billetty Or, a lion rampant of the last armed and langued gules. |
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Otto II of Nassau (v. 1300 † 1350), comte de Nassau, de Nassau-Dillenbourg et de Nassau-Siegen,
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Henry I, Count of Nassau-Beilstein, count of Nassau-Beilstein (Count of Nassau in Beilstein). In 1343, Nassau-Beilstein was split off from Nassau-Dillenburg. In 1561 the possessions of the house of Nassau-Beilstein were inherited by the house of Nassau-Dillenburg.
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz).[17]
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Henry III of Nassau-Breda came to the Netherlands in 1499 as heir to his uncle, Engelbrecht II of Nassau-Breda. His and his uncle's arms are shown below. When Philbert, prince of Orange died in 1530, his sister's son René of Breda inherited the Princedom of Orange on condition that he used the name and coat of arms of the Châlon-Orange family. History knows him therefore as René of Châlon instead of as "René of Nassau-Breda." The 1st and 4th grand quarters show the arms of the Chalons-Arlay (the gold bend) princes of Orange (the bugle). The blue and gold cross is the arms of Jeanne of Geneva, who married one of the Chalons princes. The 2nd and 3rd show the quarterings of Brittany and Luxembourg-St. Pol. The inescutcheon overall is his paternal arms quarterd of Nassau and Breda. William the Silent's father, William the Rich, was rich only in children. He bore the arms shown below. Clockwise from upper left they displayed the arms of Nassau (1st quarter), Katzenelenbogen (3rd quarter), Dietz (2nd quarter), Vianden (4th quarter).
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Engelbert II of Nassau (1451 - 1504), Count of Nassau-Dillenbourg and Vianden, and lord of Breda, Lek, Diest, Roosendaal, Nispen and Wouw. He was for some time leader of the Privy council of the Duchy of Burgundy. In 1501, Maximilian named him Lieutenant-General of the Low Countries. From that point forward (until his death in 1504) Engelbert was the principal representative of the Habsburg Empire to the region.
Quarterly, I and IV Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (Nassau); II and III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden)[18] · [19] · [20]
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Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz, Comte de Nassau-Dillenbourg,
Quarterly: I and IV azure sown with billets of gold, the lion of the same, armed and langued Gules, debruising over all ( Nassau ); II and III gules two armed leopards of gold, langued and crowned Azure ( Dietz )[21]. After 1504: quarterly: I and IV of azure sown with billets of gold, to the lion of the same, armed and langued Gules, debruising on the whole ( Nassau ); II and III Gules two leopards Or armed, langued and crowned Azure ( Dietz ), sur-le-tout Gules a fess Argent ( Vianden )[22]. |
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Henry III of Nassau-Breda, count of Nassau, lord of Breda, de Lek and Diest,
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William of Nassau the Rich or the Old (1487 † 1559), Count of Nassau-Dillenbourg,
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz).[24] · [25] |
The House of Nassau-Corroy is a bastard branch of the House of Nassau.[26] Unlike the main branch of the House of Nassau, this illegitimate branch was faithful to the king of Spain and Roman Catholic.[27]
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Alexis van Nassau-Corroy, illeg. son of Henry III of Nassau-Breda, lord of Corroy (descendants made Count of Corroy, 1693) Count of Zwevegem, Baron of Warcoing, Lord of Frasnes-lez-Gosselies,
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As the kingdom of Burgundy fragmented in the early Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa elevated the lordship of Orange to a principality in 1163 to shore up his supporters in Burgundy against the Pope and the King of France. As the Empire's boundaries retreated from those of the principality, the prince acceded to the sovereign rights that the Emperor formerly exercised.[29]: 7 As William the Silent wrote in his marriage proposal to the uncle of his second wife, the Elector August of Saxony, he held Orange as "my own free property", not as a fief of any suzerain; neither the Pope, nor the Kings of Spain or France.[30][31]
On becoming prince of Orange, William placed the Châlon-Arlay arms in the center ("as an inescutcheon") of his father's arms. He used these arms until 1582 when he purchased the marquisate of Veere and Vlissingen. It had been the property of Philip II since 1567, but had fallen into arrears to the province. In 1580 the Court of Holland ordered it sold. William bought it as it gave him two more votes in the States of Zeeland. He owned the government of the two towns, and so could appoint their magistrates. He already had one as First Noble for Philip William, who had inherited Maartensdijk. This made William the predominant member of the States of Zeeland. It was a smaller version of the countship of Zeeland (& Holland) promised to William, and was a potent political base for his descendants. William then added the shield of Veere and Buren to his arms as shown in the arms of Frederick Henry, William II and William III with the arms of the marquisate in the top center, and the arms of the county of Buren in the bottom center.[32]: 29–30 William also started the tradition of keeping the number of billets in the upper left quarter for Nassau at 17 to symbolize the original 17 provinces of the Burgundian/Habsburg Netherlands, which he always hoped would form one united nation.
As sovereign Princes, the princes of Orange used an independent prince's crown or the princely hat. Sometimes, only the coronet part was used (see, here and here). After the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as the principality of Orange had been incorporated into France by Louis XIV, they used the Dutch Royal Crowns. The full coats of arms of the princes of Orange, later Kings of the Netherlands, incorporated the arms above, the crown, 2 lions as supporters and the motto "Je maintiendrai" ("I will maintain"), the latter taken from the Chalons princes of Orange, who used "Je maintiendrai Chalons".[33]: 35
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René de Nassau, assumed surname of Châlon, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht and Gelderland
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William I of Orange-Nassau called "the Silent" or in French Le Taciturne or Le Silencieux or Le Jeune (1544-1584), Prince of Orange (1544 - 1584), stadholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht (1559–1567) and (1572-1584)
Arms 1544-1582:Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a bend Or ([House of Chalon-Arlay|Châlons]]); II and III Or a bugle hunting horn Azure, stringed Gules (Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure (Geneva). The motto: Je Maintiendrai (medieval French for "I will maintain"). The motto represents the House of Orange-Nassau, since it came into the family with the Principality of Orange[35].[20]
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Maurice of Nassau, half brother of Philip William of Orange, stadholder of Holland and Zeeland, etc. (1585-1625), prince of Orange (1618-1625).
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Fredrick Henry, half brother of Maurice, Prince of Orange, Prince of Orange (1625-1647
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); between the I and II quarters an inescutcheon, Or a fess Sable (Moers); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a bend Or (Châlons); II and III Or a bugle hunting horn Azure, stringed Gules (Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure (Geneva); between the III and IV quarters, an inescutcheon, Gules a fess counter embattled Argent (Buren). The motto: Je Maintiendrai (medieval French for "I will maintain"). The motto represents the House of Orange-Nassau, since it came into the family with the Principality of Orange[41] · [42]
Here are the armories of William II and III as soveriegn princes of Orange and knights of the Garter.[43]
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Fredrick Henry, personal arms before 1625
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William II, personal arms before 1648 as count of Buren
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Mary of England, princess of Orange, 1677-1689, arms on the expeditionary banner of William III of Orange and Mary of England, 1688
Per pale: 1. as Prince of Orange, William's coat of arms was: Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); between the I and II quarters an inescutcheon, Or a fess Sable (Moers); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a bend Or (Châlons); II and III Or a bugle horn Azure, stringed Gules (Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure (Geneva); between the III and IV quarters, an inescutcheon, Gules a fess counter embattled Argent (Buren).[35] · [45] 2. Mary's arms as princess of England were: Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); overall a label argent.[35][46] |
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Justinus of Nassau, illegitimate son of William the Silent, Admiral & General, Governor of Breda
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Louis of Nassau, lord of den Lek and Beverweerd, Premier Noble of the Province of Holland, illegitimate son of Maurice, Prince of Orange,
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Frederick of Nassau, lord of Zuylestein an illegitimate son of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange,
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Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, son of Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk, Earl of Grantham in England
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); at the fess point an inescutcheon, argent a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules (den Lek)
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William de Nassau-Zuylestein, Earl of Rochford, secretary of state for the Northern Department, descendant of Frederick of Nassau, lord of Zuylestein an illegitimate son of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange,
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William III of Orange and Nassau, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau baron of Breda, and Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, Stadtholder of Utrecht, Stadtholder of Gelderland and Overijssel, plus King of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
As King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Cojoint with his wife and cousin Mary II : Per pale :1. Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); overall an escutcheon Azure billetty a lion rampant Or.[57], 2. Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland).
As King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); overall an escutcheon Azure billetty a lion rampant Or.[58] In his later coat of arms, William used the motto: Je Maintiendrai (medieval French for "I will maintain"). The motto represents the House of Orange-Nassau, since it came into the family with the Principality of Orange. |
In 1739 the House of Orange-Nassau inherited the possessions of the Nassau-Dillenbourg line.
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Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, count of Nassau-Dillenbourg (Count of Nassau in Dillenburg), Nassau-Siegen, Nassau-Hadamar et de Nassau-Dietz, Stadholder of Friesland, Gelderland and Zutphen,
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz).[59] While already being princely counts, directly represented in the imperial diet and subject only to the Emperor, after 1654 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III raised the whole House of Nassau to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst).
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Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen,count and prince of Nassau-Siegen, nephew of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, surnamed "the Brazilian"
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); overall an inescutcheon on the fess point, 1, argent a lion rampant gueules (Limburg), 2, gueules a lion rampant argent armed and langued of the first (Bronckhorst), 3, or two lions passant gueules (Wisch), 4, gueules three bezants or (Borculo) (from the marriage in 1646 of Henri de Nassau-Siegen and Maria Magdalena of Limburg-Stirum for the lordship of Wisch, which entered the protestant line of the counts of Nassau-Siegen)[60]. Arms of House of Limburg-Stirum: |
In 1606 the Nassau-Dillenburg branch partitioned also into Nassau-Dietz and Nassau-Siegen.
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Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, count of Nassau-Dietz, stadtholder of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen,
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In 1702, the line of Nassau-Dietz inherited the principality of Orange according to the will of William III, and became the line of Orange-Nassau-Dietz. However, France disputed this and occupied the principality.
When John William Friso became Prince of Orange, he used the arms below. However, he was never recognized outside of Holland and areas friendly to Holland as Prince of Orange. His son, William IV, recognized as Prince of Orange, seems to have used the original arms of William the Silent.[8] When the princes of Orange fled the Netherlands during the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland, and when France occupied the Netherlands, they were compensated by Napoleon with the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda. These principalities were confiscated when Napoleon invaded Germany (1806) and William VI supported his Prussian relatives. He succeeded his father as prince of Orange later that year, after William V's death. The house of Orange-Nassau also had several illegitimate lines (see below) who based their arms on the arms of Nassau-Dillenburg.
In 1814, the Congress of Vienna reached a concord that awarded the whole county of Nassau, raised to a duchy, to the Walramian branch (Nassau-Weilburg). In compensation, the Ottonian Branch (princes of Orange, and then raised to King of the Netherlands, were awarded the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg as their personal dominion. So, when Belgium became independent, Luxemburg remained with the house of Orange-Nassau in personal union with the Dutch monarch. In 1890, with the death of William III of the Netherlands, Luxemburg was inherited by the Walramian branch as part of this compact.
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John William Friso, Prince of Orange, prince of Nassau-Dietz, stadthouder of Friesland and Groningen, prince of Orange,
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William IV, Prince of Orange, prince of Nassau-Dietz, prince of Orange-Nassau, Stadtholder of Friesland, then Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, Stadtholder of Utrecht, Stadtholder of Gelderland and Overijssel 1747 à 1751,
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a bend Or (Châlons); II and III Or a bugle horn Azure, stringed Gules (Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure (Geneva). The motto: Je Maintiendrai (medieval French for "I will maintain"). The motto represents the House of Orange-Nassau, since it came into the family with the Principality of Orange[35] · [66].
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William VI of Orange-Nassau, prince of Nassau-Dietz, prince of Orange-Nassau, after 1815 King of the Netherlands.
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Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg,count and prince of Nassau in Schaumburg, (1629 – 1676) son of Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); overall an inescutcheon on the fess point, 1 and 4, gules a lion rampant or holding in right a spear or, 2 and 3, argent a griffin gules rampant in the right a nut or; in the center of that in the fess point, azure an apple tree with fruit or all under a coronet, or.[68].
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When William VI of Orange returned to the Netherlands in 1813 and was proclaimed Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands, he quartered the former Arms of the Dutch Republic (1st and 4th quarter) with the "Châlon-Orange" arms (2nd and 3rd quarter), which had come to symbolize Orange (see above). As an in escutcheon he placed his ancestral arms of Nassau. When he became King in 1815, he combined the Dutch Republic Lion with the billets of the Nassau arms and added a royal crown to form the Coat of arms of the Netherlands. In 1907, Queen Wilhelmina replaced the royal crown on the lion and the shield bearers of the arms with a coronet.
Wilhelmina further decreed that in perpetuity her descendants should be styled "princes and princesses of Orange-Nassau" and that the name of the house would be "Orange-Nassau" (in Dutch "Oranje-Nassau"). Only those members of the members of the Dutch Royal Family that are designated to the smaller "Royal House" can use the title of prince or princess of the Netherlands (according to the Membership to the Royal House Act [69] which was revised in 2002.) Since then, individual members of the House of Orange-Nassau are also given their own arms by the reigning monarch, similar to the United Kingdom. This is usually the royal arms, quartered with the arms of the principality of Orange, and an in escutcheon of their paternal arms.[70]
The Royal House of the Netherlands tends to use Heraldic Flags more extensively than their arms. So these are also shown here.
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William I of the Netherlands (1772 - 1843), prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands, duke and grand duke of Luxembourg (until 1890, when Luxembourg went by treaty and family compact to Duke Adolph of Nassau), & etc
Coat of arms of the Netherlands :
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Crown Prince of the Netherlands (prince of Orange) in the XIXth century
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Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774 - 1837), queen consort of King William I of the Netherlands, daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia.
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Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797 - 1881), son of King William I of the Netherlands
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Louise of the Netherlands (1828† 1871), princess of the Netherlands, Queen consort of Sweden and Norway (8 July 1859 - 18 September 1872), daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
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Princess Marie of the Netherlands (1841 + 1910) married William, Prince of Wied and mother of Wied, Prince of Albania, King of Albania. Daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. | ||
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Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810 - 1883), daughter of King William I of the Netherlands, married her first cousin Prince Albert, the fourth son of her mother's brother, King Frederick William III of Prussia. The union produced five children
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Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795 - 1865), queen consort of King William II of the Netherlands, daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
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Sophie of Württemberg (1818 - 1877), Queen Consort of the Netherlands, wife of King William III of the Netherlands
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Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1854 - 1934), Queen Consort of the Netherlands, Regent of the Netherlands (1890-1898)
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Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876 - 1934), prince consort of the Netherlands
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Juliana of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands (1948 - 1980), princess of Orange-Nassau, duchess of Mecklemburg-Schwerin, countess of Nassau.
as Crown Princess and Princess of Orange;
'after her abdication (1980-2004), she used her arms as a princess above.
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Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands ( 1911 - 2004 ), prince of Lippe-Beisterfeld, prince consort of the Netherlands 1948 - 1980
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Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands (1980-2013), princesse of Orange-Nassau, princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Crown Princess/Princess of Orange :
after her abdication (2013), she used her arms as a princess.
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Claus von Amsberg (1926 - 2002) Jonkheer van Amsberg, prince consort of the Netherlands, prince of the Netherlands
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Princesses Irene, Margriet et Christina, princesses of Orange-Nassau, princesses of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
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Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, and Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, princes of Orange-Nassau, princes of Lippe-Biesterfeld, sons of princesse Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven
Arms of van Vollenhoven:
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King William-Alexander of the Netherlands, King of the Netherlands (2013), prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg
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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Queen consort of the Netherlands (2013), and
Princesses Catherine-Amalia, princesse of Orange, (2003-) Princess Alexia of the Netherlands and Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, princesses of the Netherlands and Orange-Nassau, jonkvrouwe van Amsberg,
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House of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg see also House of Amsberg. "Van Orange-Nassau van Amsberg" is the name of the title as count or countess in the Netherlands that the members carry after 2002 that are not also princes of the Netherlands. The other title is Jonkheer(or Jonkvrouw) van Amsberg.
the children of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau:
the children of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands:
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Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (1966- ) wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
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