The Nine Years' War
(Glorious Revolution)1688 - 1697 (Peace of Ryswijk)
How William III of Orange & England was twice a Stuart
James I/VI = Anne of Denmark
(1566-1625) | (1574-1619)
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Henry Frederick Friedrich V
= Elizabeth Charles I = Henrietta Maria Bourbon
Prince of Wales elector Palatine | (1596-1662) (1600-49) | (1609-69)
(1594-1612)
& Winter King | |
(1596-1632) |
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Ernst August = Sophie
Wm.II = Mary Charles II Anne Hyde = James II = Mary
of Modena
elect. of Hanover | of Hanover of Orange | princess royal (1630-85) (1631-71) | (1633-1701) | (1658-1718)
(1629-98) | (1630-1714) (1626-56)
| (1631-60) | |
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Sophie Charlotte Georg Ludwig Wm.III = Mary II Anne James Francis
(1668-1705) (1660-1727) (1650-1702) (1662-94) (1665-1714) "the Old Pretender"
(1688-1766)
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Charles Edward
"Bonnie Prince Charlie"
(1720-88)
How Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg, was uncle of William III of Orange
Georg Wilhelm = Elisabeth Charlotte Amalia = Friedrich Henry
Brandenburg | Palatine
Solms-Braunfel | Orange
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Friedrich Wilhelm = Louise Henrietta Wm II. = Mary
"Great Elector" | (1627-67) Orange | princess royal
(1620-88) | (1626-56) | (1631-60)
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Friedrich III Wm. III = Mary II
elector Brandenburg (1650-1702) (1662-94)
king of Prussia
United Provinces of the Netherlands - Protestant (Reformed)
Brandenburg - Protestant (elector Reformed, population Lutheran)
Saxony - Protestant (population, but elector --> Catholic)
Poland - Catholic
Holy Roman Empire (Leopold I) - Catholic
Ottoman Empire - Muslim
Cologne, archbishop/elector - Catholic
France (Louis XIV) - Catholic
England - Protestant (but James II Catholic)
1685 Edict of Fontainebleau (revokes Nantes)
1686 Edict of Potsdam (invites Refugées)
Grand Alliance