biography
pronunciation:
[ruhnay, shalõn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1518–44)
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| biography:
| Prince of Orange, the son of Henry III of Nassau and his second wife Claude of Chalon; he was previously Renatus of Nassau. In 1530 he inherited the principality of Orange and some French estates from his uncle Philibert of Chalon, and from his father in 1538 Dutch estates and the stadtholdership of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and Franche-Comté. In 1540 he was made a Knight of the Golden Fleece. In 1543 he also became stadtholder of Gelre. His cousin William of Nassau (William the Silent) was his sole heir. |
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