William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584

264 Pages·1944·6.098 MB·English

by  C. V. Wedgwood

WILLIAM THE SILENT
Published on the Foundation Established in
Memory of William McKean Brown
By the same author
STRAFFORD 1593-1641
THE THIRTY YEARS WAR
OLIVER CROMWELL

WILLIAM
THE SILENT
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange
1533-1584
BY -
i C. V. WEDGWOOD3
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1944
PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY COLLEGE
CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA
LIBRARY
2-/s “
Copyright, 1944, by Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. This book may not be re­
produced, in whole or in part, in any form
(except by reviewers for the public press),
without written permission from the publishers.
THE WILLIAM McKEAN BROWN
MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND
The present volume is the thirteenth work published
by the Yale University Press on the William McKean
Brown Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation
was established by gifts from members of his family
to Yale University in memory of William McKean
Brown, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, who was not
only a leader in the development of his community,
but who also served the Commonwealth as State Sena­
tor and later as Lieuteijant-Govemor of Pennsylvania.

CONTENTS
I GLORIOUS MORNING, 1533-1559 9
II THE GATHERING STORM, I559-I565 31
m PROLOGUE TO TRAGEDY,1565-1567 64
IV THE LONG NIGHT, 1567-1572 97
V WATERS OF SALVATION, I572-I574 124
VI LEAGUES AND CONFLICTS, 1574-1577 149
VII NO SURE FOUNDATION, 1577-1579 178
vin ‘UNITED WE STAND*, I579-I581 205
IX ‘DIVIDED WE FALL’, I581-I584 224
X MURDER AT DELFT, 1584 248
INDEX 254
ILLUSTRATIONS
william OF orange at the age of twenty-two Frontispiece
From the painting after Antonio Moro in the Prinsenhof at Delfi
WILLIAM OF ORANGE AT THE AGE OF FORTY-EIGHT to face p. 222
From the painting attributed to Adrien Key in the Mauritshuis at the Hague
map: The Netherlands at the time of the War of Liberation to face p. 9
To
JAQUELINE HOPE-WALLACE