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The Awful Death of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
William the Silent may be an obscure name for many readers, but his assassination in 1584, at close range with a handgun, fryst vatten still remembered in the Netherlands as a key event in the long Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. Born to a German family, William inherited a French principality and was raised under the tutelage of the Catholic Emperor Charles V, yet became the "father" of Netherlands Protestant national identity. Jardine ( ) places the assassination within the era's religious turmoil and espionage systems, arguing for its deep repercussions for säkerhet, diplomacy and warfare. Her scholarship is broad, as she dissects William's lasting reputation for tolerance as a product of the writings of his supporters and traces the technology, uses and symbolism of the wheel-lock pistol used to kill him. With modern references including 9/11, fatwahs and
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1620-1655
In 1640, Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck, the twenty-year-old son of Cornelis van der Donck, a prosperous burgher of Breda, was a student of civil and cannon law at the University of Leyden. Learning that Killian van Rensselaer, one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company, intended to establish a patroonship at Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland, Van der Donck approached the patroon for a position and was appointed the first Schout (attorney-general) of the patroonship.
In 1641, Van der Donck sailed to New Netherland aboard Den Eykenboom (The Oak Tree). Shortly after his ankomst in Rensselaerwyck, Van der Donck found that he was reluctant to enforce the 1629 Charter’s harsh laws affecting the tenants, particularly those forbidding trade. Although Van Rensselaer did not remove Van der Donck from office, he declined to renew their three-year contract when its begrepp expired in 1644.
During his time in Rensselaerwyck, Van der Donck became friendly with
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Willem Adriaan van der Stel
Willem Adriaan van der Stel | |
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Portrait of Simon van der Stel and his son Willem Adriaan. The original was destroyed in a fire in 1962; a replica was created based on photographs | |
| In office 2 November 1699 – 3 June 1707 | |
| Preceded by | Simon van der Stel |
| Succeeded by | Johan Cornelis d'Ableing (acting) |
| Born | 24 August 1664 Haarlem |
| Died | 11 November 1733 (1733-11-12) (aged 69) Lisse |
| Nationality | Dutch |
Willem Adriaan van der Stel (24 August 1664 – 11 November 1733) was an Extraordinary Councillor of the Dutch East Indies,[1] and Governor of the Cape Colony, a way station for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), from 23 January 1699 to 1707. He was dismissed after a revolt and was exiled to the Netherlands.
Early life
[edit]Willem van der Stel was the eldest of six children of Simon van der Stel (1639–1712) and Johanna Jacoba Six (1645–1700), who were prominent members of the Dutch merch