House of Orange-Nassau

And I'll let your viewers watch the film to get that lineage.

But it starts with a man that the Lord raised up called Robert Haldane, who was kind of a Schaeffer figure of that era, who mentored a young man named Jean-Henri Merle d'Avigny, who became the court preacher for the House of Orange in the Netherlands, which is like, dude, has rooted in Protestant, like resistance.

Yeah.

And that goes back to William the Silent and Pierre Varey, who was called the smile of the Reformation.

After he departed in 1587, the Dutch were left to their own devices.

One option was rule by the House of Orange, the aristocratic family that could most plausibly claim legitimacy.

But for many, this idea was unlike a real orange.

It lacked appeal.

So, over the next century or so, there was an oscillation between periods of Republican government and periods of rule by a so-called Stadtholder from the House of Orange.

It would be one of those rulers, William III, who invaded England and managed to depose King James II in 1688, after which he continued to be the Dutch Stadtholder while reigning over Britain along with his wife Mary.

The English philosopher John Locke helped to write William's declaration justifying this overthrow.

tended to seek peace, albeit peace backed up by a strong military presence.

But we have other royals that are very, very important for the global agenda.

That's the House of Orange in the Netherlands.

They are one of the main owners of the Royal Dutch Shell.

And they have been involved in everything.

So when I have been studying the Rockefellers, they have always cooperated with the House of Orange.

And a lot of important meetings have been set up in The Hague.

The Hague is always a pivotal place for agenda setting.

Grenville's fleet seized ships indiscriminately, but particularly Dutch vessels.

Now, this might seem rather odd, because the House of Orange had always supported the Royalist cause.

However, I suspect that there was method in Grenville's madness.

If he intended to aggravate existing tensions between the Commonwealth and the Dutch United Provinces, he certainly succeeded.

But Denmark was penalized for her adherence to Napoleon by the loss of Norway, which served to reward the perfidy of Bernadotte and to balance the sacrifice of Finland.

The Austrian Netherlands were united with Holland to form a kingdom under the House of Orange.

Bavaria gained the southern portion of the Rhenish Palatinate.

Half Saxony was transferred to Prussia, partly to punish King Frederick Augustus, who had fought on the side of the French at Leipzig.

The French people were enthusiastic for Belgian independence, and their king, insecure on a throne which he owed mainly to good luck, could not afford to risk his position by defying the will of his subjects.

Hazardous as war might be, it did not involve that certain destruction which would have fallen on him if he had permitted the restoration of Dutch power by English arms.

Louis Philippe, therefore, was bound to do anything rather than allow the Belgian revolution to fail, and as Great Britain was not prepared to fight to prevent the disruption of the United Netherlands, unless that disruption was to mean the annexation of the provinces by France, armed intervention in favor of the House of Orange was out of the question.

Diplomatic intervention remained, and to this the Conference of London turned its attention.

Like they're- they're cut open from the stomach and, uh, it's painted between 1672 and 1675.

The two, the two de Witt brothers, opponents of the House of Orange, had dominated Dutch politics for some years, but they left the country unprepared for the Lou- invasion by Louis XIV of France in 1672.

Wait, House of Orange.

Is that why the Dutch national team wears the orange jerseys?

I think the House of Orange is the, um-

Royal house?

Mm-hmm.

Unfortunately at home, it was plain that friction was arising.

The political, military, and naval authority of the States was centered in the half-hereditary House of Orange, by which is meant that election was practically restricted to this one family.

But Olden Barneveld was advocate of Holland, where the Republican party was uppermost.

Yet it was religion and not politics that finally separated the two friends.

The great rivalry between the two branches of Dutch Calvinism, the Remonstrants and the Counter-Remonstrants, liberals and strict Calvinists, came to a head in a famous controversy between their leaders, Arminius and Gomarus.

The States declared in favor of the Arminians, the party to which belonged both the House of Orange and Olden Barneveld.

But the Counter-Remonstrants proved defiant, and it became necessary to appeal to force.

Though Maurice confessed he did not know whether predestination was blue or green, he yielded to the persuasions of the advocates' enemies and offered his military services to the Counter-Remonstrants.

And it meant all the traditional discord between them and the monarchical orangists, fanned and fed by French money, was blown away.

The French ambassador reported back to Louis that if any argued against the House of Orange now, they were carried away willy-nilly by the torrent and accused of fostering an understanding with the enemy to see the annihilation of their religion a destruction of their trade.

I must confess, I did not see the original of this quote, by the way, and so I was intrigued by the use of willy-nilly.

Would that be, I wondered, willy-nilly? I looked it up.