William V

William V

▪ prince of Orange and Nassau

born March 8, 1748, The Hague, Neth.
died April 9, 1806, Braunschweig [Germany]
 prince of Orange and Nassau and general hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (1751–95).

      When his father, William IV, died (1751), he was but three years of age, and his mother, Anne of Hanover, acted as regent for him until her death (Jan. 12, 1759); then the provincial States (assemblies) acted as regents. Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1718–88) acted as William's guardian and gained such influence that when William was declared of age in 1766, he asked the duke to remain as his adviser. On Oct. 4, 1767, William married Wilhelmina of Prussia, sister of the future Frederick William II.

      Politically and militarily incompetent, William pursued an Anglophile policy, arousing the hostility of large sections of the population. He was, moreover, unable to prevent the Anglo-Dutch War of 1780–84, stirring the vehement opposition of the Patriot Party (nationalists desiring reform). When the war was over, William left The Hague (1785), returning only after a Prussian force had expelled the Patriots (1787).

      William's conservatism made all reforms impossible. In 1795, because of the French invasion, he left the Netherlands with his family (January 18) and emigrated to England. William was dismissed from his office as stadtholder (February 23), and his rule was succeeded by the Batavian Republic (1795–1806). In November 1802 he went to his dynastic Nassau possessions in Germany.

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