Court of Orange Nassau of the Netherlands

The positions of the successive holders of the City of Orange and Nassau-Diez houses were not strong enough to monarchs be. They were the "servant of the States".

In 1750, William IV of Orange-Nassau, Against the very meaning of the particular regents and States of Holland, To Erfstadhouder proclaimed. Yet he and his son and successor William V of Orange-Nassau not act as monarchs. The republican tradition is too strong. Willem V fled in 1795 to England.

The northern Netherlands were then with the help of the French occupation Batavian Republic, Which 1801 was replaced by the Batavian Commonwealth. In 1806 raised Napoleon Bonaparte the Batavian Commonwealth. He then founded the Kingdom of Holland and installed his younger brother Louis Napoleon Bonaparte on the throne. That was the beginning of the Dutch monarchy. The Dutch acquiesced in the inevitable and not unsympathetic Louis Napoleon was even popular.

From 1810 to 1813 were the Northern and Southern Netherlands part of the French Empire.

In 1813 came William, Formerly William VI, son of William V,, to The Hague. He called himself out on December 2, 1813 to sovereign Forest the Netherlands. That he could do because the fierce republican and anti-Orangist feelings in Holland and in the other provinces was significantly decreased. They were accustomed to a monarchy.

William I tried include the interests of his family secure by establishing the principle of "hereditary monarchy". It was he by the British and other allied support. They wanted a strong monarchy north of France and William was closely related to the British and Prussian royal. It was during this period in which the Dutch Republic had not forgotten a strong opposition against the monarchy. Orangeman Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp made sure his Constitution William that his position as King of the Netherlands could consolidate: since the king went over to his "legal" (by William itself as legally defined), family, successors