Jean Guillaume Friso d\' Orange

Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz (in German Johann Wilhelm Friso von Nassau-Dietz), born the August 4th 1686 with Dessau, dead drowned the July 14th 1711 with Moerdjik. He was prince de Nassau-Dietz, Stathouder of Frise of 1696 with 1711, prince d' Orange of 1702 with 1711, stathouder of Groningue of 1708 with 1711.

Family

Wire of Henri Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz and Henriette d' Anhalt-Dessau. In 1709, Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz married Louise de Hesse-Cassel (1688 - 1765), (girl of the Landgrave Charles Ier de Hesse-Cassel.

Two children were born from this union:

• Charlotte of Orange-Nassau (1710 - 1777), in 1727 it married Frederic de Bade-Durlach (1702 - 1732)

• Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau, stathouder of the Netherlands.

Biography

By the testamentary provisions taken by Orange-Nassau Guillaume III, Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz became the ancestor of the Maison of Orange-Nassau.

With the death of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau which has occurred in 1702, the direct and legitimate line of Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau known as " Taciturne" died out. Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz was the elder one in the applicants with the succession, it had for ascending the brother (Jean Ier de Nassau-Dillenbourg) of Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau. Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz also had like ascending his paternal grandmother, the Albertine princess of Orange-Nassau, girl of the stathouder of Holland Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau.

Orange-Nassau Henri-Frederic, father of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau claimed the succession like stathouder in all the provinces held by his son. The republican faction of the Netherlands refused this application. The cing provinces which were controlled by Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau (the Holland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel) remained without governor. Two last provinces the Plank, and Groningue) which did not depend on the authority of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau échurent in Jean Guillaume de Nassau-Dietz (1708).

At the beginning of his political career, Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz created the third Orange Room, currently governs stalemate the queen Béatrix of the Netherlands. His/her son, Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau became later stathouder of each of the seven provinces.

The union between Louise of Orange-Nassau (sister of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau) and Frederic-Guillaume Ier de Brandebourg, pushed Frederic Ier of Prussia to claim for the Prussia the transmission of the town of Lingen (Lower Saxony) and the Principauté of Orange located in the valley of the the Rhone, which was yielded later to the France. However, according to the will of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau it was Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz who inherited the Orange principality (1702).

Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz was general of the Dutch troops at the time of the War of succession of Spain, it was useful under the command of the duke Marlborough and was a qualified officer. This prestige acquired during this war was perhaps at the origin of its election like stathouder in the five other provinces.

In 1711, its ship made shipwreck between the Belgium and $the Hague it died drowned on July 14th, 1711.

Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz belonged to the sixth branch (Nassau-Dietz), itself resulting from the second branch (Nassau-Dillenbourg) of the Maison of Nassau. This line of Nassau-Dietz belonged to the stem ottonienne which gave stathouders to the Holland, the Frise, Utrecht, with the United Provinces, a king with the England and the Scotland in the person of Guillaume III of Orange-Nassau, kings and queens with the Netherlands.

Jean Guillaume Friso de Nassau-Dietz is the ascending one of the queen of the Netherlands.

Internal bonds

• Guillaume-Frederic de Nassau-Dietz
• Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau