In 1349 Margaret was induced to resign her sovereignty, and the stadholder became count under the title of William V.
But though Maurice and his other opponents had reluctantly yielded to the advocate's skilful diplomacy and persuasive arguments, a soreness remained between the statesman and the stadholder which was destined never to be healed.
Foremost among these was the great commercial capital, Amsterdam, whose rich burgher patriciate did not scruple on occasion to defy the authority of the States-General, the stadholder and even of the States of Holland themselves.
The act of Seclusion, which barred the young prince of Orange from holding the office of stadholder and of captain-general, had been one of the conditions on which Cromwell had insisted.
At the side of Maurice, as a wise adviser, stood his cousin William Louis, stadholder of Friesland, a trained soldier and good commander in the field.
All the provinces, except Friesland and Groningen, which remained true to William Frederick of Nassau-Dietz, agreed to leave the office of stadholder vacant.
He and Spinola found themselves once more at the head of the armies in the field, but the health of the stadholder was undermined, and his military genius was under a cloud.
The stadholder gave way to fits of passion at the meanness and the insolence to which he was constantly exposed.
In 1581, his Majesty had been abjured and the stadholder had become sovereign.
It was not destined that the stadholder should effect many surprises that year.
Next day the stadholder took possession, bestowing the nominal government of the place upon his brother Frederic Henry.
The stadholder reached the bank of that fatal stream only to witness this maddening spectacle, instead of the swift and brilliant triumph which he was justified in expecting.
The stadholderdetermined to deliver a sudden blow upon this tender spot, break through the lines, and bring on a general action by surprise.
There was also, as usual, much difference of opinion between Maurice and Barneveld as to the most judicious manner of employing them, and as usual the docile stadholder submitted his better judgment to the States.
Thus the stadholder exhibited to the Spaniards who, fifteen miles off towards the west, had been pounding and burrowing three years long before Ostend without success, what he understood by a siege.
Had the enterprise been as well executed as it was safely planned, it would have gone hard with the stadholder and his army.
Everybody, from his Highness the stadholder down to the speculator who had risked his last pennies, had the greatest expectations.
It had been called Mauritius after Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadholder of Holland.
The property of Verdugo, royal stadholder of the province, was to be respected, and to remain in the city, or to be taken thence under safe conduct, as might be preferred.
The Republic needed a strong hand to preserve it, and the office of Stadholder was revived and given to William.
He had also private reasons for bearing ill-will against the Dutch, who by abolishing the office of Stadholder (see p.
A stadholder in Holland would be as bad as a Bourbon in the St. Antoine suburb.
It was impossible to deny that the young Stadholder was a gentleman of a good house, but how could the insolence of a common citizen like John of Olden-Barneveld be digested?
On such a small scale was Philip's world-empire contended for by his stadholder in Friesland; yet it was certainly not the fault of the stout old Portuguese.
Three candidates were presented by the province for each office, from whom the stadholder appointed one.
But the far-seeing eye of Barneveld could not be blind to the danger which at this crisis beset the Stadholder and the whole republic.
Maurice, in his capacity of captain-general and stadholder of the province, was summoned to take charge of the army.
The Stadholder warmly repudiated Leicestrian designs, and declared that he had been always influenced by a desire to serve his country and maintain the Reformed religion.
He then observed that when he took the oath as stadholder these unfortunate differences had not arisen, but all had been good friends together.
No two men could be more patriotic than both Stadholder and Advocate.
There had already been bloodshed in Leyden, a burgher or two having been shot and a soldier stoned to death in the streets, but the Stadholder deemed it unwise to precipitate matters.
Meantime the Stadholder remained quiet, but biding his time.
The Stadholder grew impatient at last and clapped his hand on his rapier.
Here the Stadholder made a vehement speech and demanded that the States of Holland should rescind the "Sharp Resolution," and should desist from the new oaths required from the soldiery.
Nor did the States-General and the Stadholder at that moment affect to dispute the rights of Utrecht, nor raise a doubt as to the legality of the proceedings.
They relied on a promise which they had received or imagined that they had received from the Stadholder that no harm should come to the prisoner in consequence of the arrest made of his person in the Prince's apartments on the 8th of August.
Nothing was easier for the Stadholder than to concede the principle while trampling it with his boot-heels in practice.
They had opened negotiations with the Stadholder and the States-General through Amsterdam merchants in regard to settling in New Amsterdam, and offered to colonize that country if assured of the protection of the United Provinces.
The Stadholder had long believed in a spirit of hostility on the part of those nobles towards himself.
The news of the municipal revolution which had been effected by the Stadholder had not penetrated to his solitude, but his wife was allowed to send him fruit from their garden.
Meantime he found himself not a king, not the master of a nominal republic, but the servant of the States-General, and the limited stadholder of five out of seven separate provinces.
On the western wolds of Frisia, he surprised the castle of Wedde, a residence of the absent Aremberg, stadholder of the province.
No man knew the country better than Aremberg, a native of the Netherlands, the stadholder of the province.
Thus the whole movement was directed against Alva and against Count Bossu, appointed stadholder by Alva in the place of Orange.
He was only stadholder of five out of seven provinces.
The influence of Uytenbogaert over the Stadholder steadily diminished.
But theStadholder refused to let him go, fearing his influence in other places.
Count John of Nassau signed first, asstadholder of Gelderland and Zutfen.
The Admiral, in the name, of the Prince of Orange, as lawful stadholder of Philip, took formal possession of an almost deserted city.
The adherents of the Advocate accused the stadholder of desiring the continuance of the war for personal aims.
The stadholder made a violent and indignant speech.
The stadholder doubtless dreamed of a crown which might have been his father's, and which his own illustrious services might be supposed to have earned for himself.
He was determined, once for all, to show the stadholder and his adherents that the friendship of a great king was not to be had by a little republic on easy terms, nor every day.
The stadholder of Friesland was not on good terms with his great relative, and under his lead Friesland stood somewhat aloof from the policies of the latter and of Their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United Provinces.
At least a thousand of the choicest troops of the stadholder were slain, while the Spanish had hardly lost a man.
The expedition was an absolute failure, but the stadholder had gained a great victory.
And equally characteristic was the reply of the religious and thrifty stadholder of Friesland.
The Englishman, not aware of the catastrophe at Leffingen, which Maurice had locked up in his own breast, was now informed by the stadholder that there were to be no entrenchments that day but those of pike and arquebus.
The stadholder bade him pause yet a little longer.
The stadholder and his soldiers came to liberate their brethren of the same race, and speaking the same language, from abject submission to a foreign despotism.
That the stadholder was completely in their power was certain.
In the blackest hour that the Netherland commonwealth had ever known, the fortitude of the stadholder did not desert him.
The ascendency of Barneveld was the less wholesome, therefore, and it might have been better had the stadholder manifested more resolution.
Monsieur the Admiral of Arragon," said the stadholder in French, "is more fortunate than many of his army.
It was, in the opinion of the young stadholder of Friesland, to suspend the existence of the whole commonwealth upon a silken thread.
He stated also that he would very soon send the rebel stadholder himself to her as a prisoner.
Three days after the battle the stadholder came again before Nieuport, only to find the garrison strengthened meantime by La Bourlotte to three thousand men.
It was committed in the apartments of the Stadholder and almost under his very eyes.
The martial stadholder was more than ever for open war, in which he was opposed by the Advocate, whose object was to postpone and, if possible, to avert altogether the dread catastrophe which he foresaw impending over Europe.
He did so, and from that day forth the Stadholder ceased to be his friend, although regularly listening to his preaching in the French chapel of the court for more than a year longer.
It is needless to say that Francis Aerssens was deep in their intrigues, and feeding full the grudge which the Stadholderalready bore the Advocate for his policy on this occasion.
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