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Also Known As Maurice, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau • Maurits, Prins van Oranje, Graaf van Nassau • Maurice, Count of Nassau
Born November 13, 1567 • Germany
Died April 23, 1625 (aged 57) • The Hague • Netherlands
House / Dynasty House of Orange
Notable Family Members father William I
Role In Eighty Years’ War • Siege of Breda

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Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
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Frederick Henry, prince of Orange, count of Nassau
prince of Orange
William Louis
stadholder of Friesland
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
William I
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman
Maarten Tromp
Maarten Tromp
Dutch admiral
Louis of Nassau, panel portrait by an unknown artist, 1574; in the Orange Nassau Museum, Delft, Neth.
Louis of Nassau
Dutch political leader
John Maurice of Nassau
John Maurice Of Nassau
count of Nassau-Siegen
Jacob van Heemskerck
Dutch explorer
Piet Heyn
Dutch admiral
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Polish general and statesman
Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza
Alessandro Farnese
regent of The Netherlands
János Hunyadi
János Hunyadi
Hungarian general and governor
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Ambrogio Spinola
Ambrogio di Filippo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases
Spanish military officer
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto
Spanish military engineer and general
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
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