King England WILLIAM III PRINCE ORANGE Battle Boyne ~ 1832 Art Print Engraving

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King England WILLIAM III PRINCE ORANGE Battle Boyne ~ 1832 Art Print Engraving:
$29.99

WILLIAM III

Artist: From a Picture by Netscher, in the pofsefsion of the Publisher.Netscher_____ Engraver: W. Holl

IMAGE IS MUCH SHARPER AND CLEARER THAN SCAN SHOWS !!

A HIGH QUALITY STEEL ENGRAVING BOOKPLATE FROM THE 1830\'S!!

PERFECT FOR FRAMING AS AN ART PRINT FOR YOUR DEN !!

VERY ANTIQUE & OLD WORLD LOOKING. ITEM(s) OVER 160 YEARS OLD!!

William III (born November 4, 1650, died March 8, 1702) was prince of Orange and later king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, devoted most of his life to resisting the expansionist designs of the powerful French monarchy. He was the posthumous son of William II, prince of Orange; his mother, Princess Mary, was the sister of England\'s Charles II and James II. Dutch republicans, who had been angered by William II\'s efforts to extend his authority, sought to exclude the ORANGE dynasty from political power after his death. In 1672, when French and British troops invaded the Netherlands, however, William III was summoned to direct the defense of the country. Appointed captain general and stadholder for life, William formed alliances with Austria and Spain, made peace with England in 1674, and compelled the French to accept the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678. Meanwhile, in order to cement an English alliance, he had married (1677) his English cousin Mary, daughter of the future James II.

In 1688, William, a Protestant, was invited to invade England by the political enemies of his father-in-law, a Catholic convert. James fled England, and on Feb. 13, 1689, William and his wife were jointly offered the English throne. They (she as Mary II) were crowned on Apr. 11, 1689, and thus was concluded the bloodless Glorious Revolution. In May, William induced the English Parliament to join the alliance against France. After crushing James\'s invasion of Ireland in 1690 he spent the next seven years campaigning in the Spanish Netherlands. In 1697 he concluded a favorable peace at Ryswick, which also secured French recognition of his kingship. William later negotiated two partition treaties (1698, 1700) with Louis XIV to prevent the French monarch from claiming the entire Spanish empire for his son or grandson when the childless king of Spain died. Louis, however, repudiated the treaty, and William\'s last diplomatic action was the negotiation of another Grand Alliance against the French. The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession began shortly before William\'s death.

In England, William was never popular, and his position became temporarily precarious after Mary\'s death in 1694. Parliament refused to support his costly anti-French designs after Ryswick until Louis\'s ambitions became clearer. William approved the Toleration Act (1689) for nonconformists, and his Whig ministers established (1694) the funded national debt and the Bank of England. He was also compelled to accept a Bill Of Rights (1689) and the Triennial Act (1694) requiring that a new Parliament should meet at least once every three years. The Act of Settlement (1701) further restricted royal prerogatives. William was succeeded on the British throne by Mary\'s sister, Queen Anne. Copyright 1995 by Grolier Electronic Publishing

SIZE: Image size in inches is 4\" x 5\", overall page size is 6 1/2 \" x 9 1/2\".

CONDITION: Condition is good. Nothing on reverse.

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