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Definition of Stadtholders

Stadtholder
Stadtholder Stadt"hold`er, n. [D. stadhouder; stad a city, a town + houder a holder.] Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

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- Belgium and Luxembourg) made extensive use of stadtholders, e.g. the Duke of Guelders appointed a stadtholder to represent him in Groningen. In the 15th...
- Koningen der Nederlanden). By practical extension, the list includes the stadtholders of the House of Orange N****au since 1556. However, they were voted into...
- crown started appointing their own stadtholders, establishing a symbiotic relationship between States and stadtholders in what would become the Dutch Republic...
- times of war, the stadtholder, who commanded the army, would have more power than the raadpensionaris. In theory, the stadtholders were freely appointed...
- hereditary Stadtholders, and later of the kings of the Netherlands. Stadtholder of Guelders (under Philip II), architect of the Union of Utrecht Stadtholder of...
- N****au-Dillenburg, Stadtholder of Utrecht, was the direct male line ancestor of the later Stadtholders of Friesland and Groningen, the hereditary stadtholders of all...
- thus crowned Dutch Republic. Stadtholders were appointed by feudal lords to govern parts of their territory. Stadtholders could be appointed for the whole...
- From 1580 onwards, all stadtholders were members of the House of N****au-Dietz, not of the House of Orange, like the stadtholders of Holland. When the Batavian...
- Eighty Years' War. Some of stadtholders of the provinces saw the Union of Delft as a threat to their power. The three Stadtholders, Lambers, Van Gessel and...
- it, when he got wind of the affair.: 452–454  The last of the Dutch stadtholders, William V died in exile at his daughter's palace in Brunswick, now in...