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The Life of His Majesty The King William III of England (1650 – 1...
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-William III (Dutch: Willem; 4 November 1650 8 March
1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was
sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of
Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel in the
Dutch Republic from the 1670s and King of England,
Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death. Popular
histories usually refer to his joint reign with his wife,
Queen Mary II, as that of William and Mary. As King of
Scotland, he is known as William II. He is sometimes
informally known as "King Billy" in Northern Ireland and
Scotland, where his victory at the Battle of the Boyne in
1690 is still commemorated by Unionists and Ulster
loyalists.
William was the only child of William II, Prince of
Orange, who died a week before his birth, and Mary,
Princess of Orange, the daughter of King Charles I of
England. In 1677, during the reign of his uncle King
Charles II of England, he married his cousin Mary, the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Charles II's brother James,
Duke of York. A Protestant, William participated in
several wars against the powerful Catholic King Louis XIV
of France, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic
powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded him as a
champion of their faith. In 1685, his Catholic uncle and
father-in-law, James, became King of England, Scotland
and Ireland. James's reign was unpopular with the
Protestant majority in Britain, who feared a revival of
Catholicism. Supported by a group of influential British
political and religious leaders, William invaded England
in what became known as the Glorious Revolution. In 1688,
he landed at the south-western English port of Brixham.
Shortly afterwards, James was deposed.
William's reputation as a staunch Protestant enabled him
and his wife to take power. During the early years of his
reign, he was occupied abroad with the Nine Years' War
(1688 97). Queen Mary II died in 1694. In 1696, the
Jacobites plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate William
and return his father-in-law to the throne. William's
lack of children and the death in 1700 of his sister-in-
law Anne's last surviving child Prince William, Duke of
Gloucester, threatened the Protestant succession. The
danger was averted by placing distant relatives, the
Protestant Hanoverians, in line. Upon his death in 1702,
the king was succeeded in Britain by Anne and as titular
Prince of Orange by his cousin, John William Friso.
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