Dutch Politics: Struggles Between the Republicans and the Orangists

 

Meeting in the 17th Century of the States General of the United Provinces (Later called Holland or the Netherlands)

 

Building where the States General Met

 

Flag of the Dutch Republic

 

William I of Orange, Opponent of Spanish Rule

 

William II of Orange, Stadtholder before DeWitt's Election as Chief Pensioner

 

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Prominent Republican Statesman and Remonstrant, Illegally Executed by the Counter-Remonstrants

 

Satire on the Party of van Oldenbarnevelt

 

Execution of Oldenbarnevelta

 

Hugo Grotius, Jurist, Philosopher of Natural Law, and Supporter of Oldenbarnevelt, Arrested with Him But Not Executed

 

Spinoza's Friend, Johan De Witt, Chief Pensionary (i.e. President) of the States General during the "Stadtholderless" Republic, and His Brother Cornelius (in the Background)

 

The DeWitt Brothers

 

Johan DeWitt

 

In Johan De Witt's Hand

 

Political Murder of the De Witt Brothers by a Calvinist-Orangist  Mob

 

The Bodies of the De Witts

 

The De Witt Brothers Immortalized

 

The Orangist Reaction

 

William III of Orange, Stadtholder after the Assassination of the DeWitts, Who Also Became King of England in 1689

 

Bride of William III and Queen of England, Mary II, Daughter of the English King, James II