Maurice de Nassau
Maurice de Nassau , Prince d' Orange (in Dutch Maurits van Nassau ) born the November 14th 1567, dead the April 23rd 1625.
He studied with Leyde when his/her father (Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau) was assassinated in 1584. He was at once elected president of the Council of State of the Union, and, two years after, though hardly 20 years old, was named, by the influence of Oldenbarneveldt, general captain and admiral of the provinces of Holland and Zealand; he obtained the same titles of those of Gueldre, of Utrecht, Overijssel, in 1589 and 1590. He justified this confidence by the brilliant campaigns of 1590, 1591, 1592, against the Spanish troops and concludes in 1596 with the France and the England offensive alliance and defensive known as from $the Hague.
However, not being the youngest child of the heirs to his father, the Orange principality escaped to him to fall to Philippe-Guillaume d' Orange.
By the victories of Turnhout (1597), of Nieuport (1600), by the catch of Rheinberg (1597 and 1601), of Serious and the Lock (1601 and 1604), it contributed strongly, in spite of some advantages obtained by Spain, with the triumph of Dutch independence, but it was stopped in its successes by the Trêve of Antwerp (1609), concluded at the instigation from Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.
Maurice aspired consequently to the absolute capacity: in spite of the sharp resistance of Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo de Groot, it made sanction, by the Synode of Dordrecht (1618), all measurements favorable to its ambition, and condemn to death, the exile or the loss of their goods the chiefs of the opposition (1619), inter alia Oldenbarnevelt, which perishes on the scaffold. With died from his older brother, Philippe-Guillaume d' Orange, in February 1618, it obtained the title of Prince d' Orange.
II in 1621 the war with Spain took again, but could neither make raise the blockade of Bréda by Ambrogio Spinola (1624), nor to take Antwerp (1625). Maurice, was one of the first captains of his time, but it left the reputation of an ambitious cold and cruel.
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