Willem I the Silent Prince of ORANGE, KING OF HOLLAND HRH

                   He was (at the age of 11), made William the 10th. , Prince ofOrange. He
also became William the 1st. of Holland (King of Holland) , StadHolder of the
Dutch Republic.
This connection to #1 (Wolfert WEBBER) is thought by some to bequestionable.
I include it, because my research shows it to be the bestpossible.(JFN,1980)
The records extant refer to there being a secret or clandestinemarriage to
an unknown wife which produced the two children shown herein. Itfurther
states that he had them christened with the surname WEBBER.
Several attempts were made on his life. His wife (Charlotte) diedshortly
after the first assassination attempt.
Sources include but are not limited to;
Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both
resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of
Latter Day Saints.
Genealogical Notes of Martha Vincent Crary Nesbitt, Sandy Spring(MD) Museum.
Je Maintiendrai, I will maintain, is the motto of the House of Orange and Nassau, the Royal Family of the Netherlands.
The phrase is supposed to have been uttered by William the Silent, Prince of Orange and Nassau, who was elected William I, Stadholder of the Netherlands (actually, of Holland and several other provinces), in 1572. This was in the midst of the great revolt of the Netherlands against Spain. Considering that Spain was the greatest power of the day and had (it seemed) unlimited wealth from the New World, the revolt was a desperate business and not long before this had seemed altogether a lost cause. However, the Dutch were stronger than they might seem now, since they were rapidly becoming the first great modern commercial and banking power, while Philip II of Spain was simply spending his Mexican and Peruvian money on unprofitable imperial and religious projects. Thus, even during the revolt, Dutch ships were carrying much of Europe's trade, and the Spanish money from the New World tended to end up in Dutch hands. After the bankruptcy of Spain and the mutiny of Spanish Army in 1576, and the failure of the Spanish Armada against England in 1588, Dutch independence was effectively secured, though not officially recognized until 1648. William himself was assassinated in 1584.
Source:Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D., Postumus Friesianorum
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001.
William the Silent
or William of Orange (William I, prince of Orange), 1533â[euro]"84, Dutch statesman, principal founder of Dutch independence.    1
Early Life
A descendant of the Ottonian line of Nassau, he was born at Dillenburg, near Wiesbaden, Germany, of Protestant parents. After inheriting (1544) the holdings of the branch of the Nassau family in the Low Countries and the principality of Orange in S France, William was reared a Roman Catholic at the insistence of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose favorite page he became. In 1555 he was made stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, and Utrecht.    2
Struggles with Spain
William ably served Philip II of Spain as a diplomat, particularly in the making of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), but Philipâ[euro][trademark]s encroachments on the liberties of the Netherlands and the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition by Cardinal Granvelle led William to turn against the king. In 1563, with the help of counts Egmont and Hoorn, he succeeded in obtaining the removal of Granvelle, but under the regency of Margaret of Parma disorders grew in the Netherlands.    3
In 1566 the party of the Gueux was organized with Williamâ[euro][trademark]s connivance, and when Alba was sent to the Netherlands to quell the rebels, William withdrew to Germany. When he refused Albaâ[euro][trademark]s summons to appear before a tribunal, his property was confiscated. William and his brother Louis of Nassau raised an army to drive the Spanish out of the Netherlands. They at first met defeat, but in 1576 the provinces of the Netherlands, taking advantage of the mutiny of the Spanish army under John of Austria, united under Williamâ[euro][trademark]s leadership in the Pacification of Ghent for the purpose of expelling the Spanish. In 1573, chiefly for the sake of policy, William had become a Calvinist.    4
The struggle with Spain continued. The Union of Utrecht (1579) proclaimed the virtual independence of the northern provinces, of which William was the uncrowned ruler, but the victories of the Spaniards under Alessandro Farnese forced William to seek French support by offering (1580) the rule over the Netherlands to Francis, duke of AlenÃ[section sign]on and Anjou. Philip II denounced William as a traitor, and a high price was set on his head in 1581.    5
William replied with his famous Apologia, in which he not only sought to vindicate his own conduct, but hurled violent accusations at the Spanish king. In the same year the representatives of Brabant, Flanders, Utrecht, Gelderland, Holland, and Zeeland solemnly declared Philip deposed from sovereignty over those provinces. Williamâ[euro][trademark]s support of the unpopular Francis resulted in the wane of Williamâ[euro][trademark]s own popularity during his last years. He was assassinated at Delft by a French Catholic fanatic, while the struggle against Spain was still in a critical stage.    6
Wives and Heirs
William married four times. His first wife was Anne of Egmont and Buren (d. 1558); in 1561 he married Anne, daughter of Elector Maurice of Saxony, in spite of the opposition of Philip II and of Anneâ[euro][trademark]s parents; in 1575, two years before Anneâ[euro][trademark]s death, he married Charlotte de Bourbon, a French princess and a runaway nun, after securing the approval of several Protestant divines; in 1583 he married Louise de Coligny, daughter of Admiral Coligny. From the first marriage Prince Philip William of Orange (d. 1616) was born; from the second and fourth marriages issued Williamâ[euro][trademark]s successors as stadtholdersâ[euro]"Maurice of Nassau and Frederick Henry.    7
Bibliography
See biography by C. V. Wedgwood (1944, repr. 1967).    8
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press
The House of Orange entered the world stage over 400 years ago, when the Dutch rose up in rebellion against their Catholic Hapsburg rulers. The Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus, is a homage to William the Silent, so named for his diplomatic tact. William was everything but a king. He was a german-born nobleman, count of Nassau, who inherited the ancient principality of Orange in southern France.
Of all William's titles and holdings, his most important political role was that of Stadholder, which made him the emperor's chief governor, magistrate and military commander in the Low Countries. The title of Stadholder passed on to his sons, Maurits and Fredrik Hendrik, both of them skilled military men who completed the process of Dutch nation-building. They also continued their father's policy of allying the House of Orange through marriage to the other powerful Protestant families of Europe: the Hohenzollerns in Prussia and the Stuarts in England.