The aged Deborah and the meek Barak in De Bray's painting can scarcely be considered effective symbols of good government or strong leadership, despite the fact that Barak, dressed in the manner of the princes of Orange, clearly plays on the contemporary image of the Dutch
stadholder and military leaders.
1632-1646: Painted for
stadholder Frederick Henry a series of pictures about ChristEoe1/4aos Passion.
With the limited space and purpose we have here, suffice to say that William at an early age came under the mentorship of Habsburg Emperor Charles V, and under Charles' successor King Philip II of Spain, became governor general, or
stadholder, in the northern regions of the Low Countries.
The persecution finally ended in 1625 when Frederik Henrik became the
Stadholder. The decrees of the Synod were abolished in 1631 and a relative tolerance was established, a confessional pluralism, which included Remonstrants, Contra-Remonstrants, Catholics, Mennonites and Socinians.
(4) In 1769 Sirmen had dedicated a private publication of six string trios to Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, who in 1766 had married the Dutch
stadholder William V (56).
Via Prospero's hope 'once again [to] make flourish [the] enchanted land', the play both captures and counters a then current sense of national malaise, as the conviction grew that the Dutch Republic had gone into decline after its Golden Age in the seventeenth century, not least because of constitutional problems involving the position of the
Stadholder, whose hereditary ambitions clashed with the nation's original republican ideal.
He emphasizes his relationship with England, where the son of Mary Stuart I spent several months at the court of his English uncle Charles II before becoming
Stadholder of five of the Dutch provinces in 1672, and thereafter constantly sought to bring England into his anti-French alliance.
In the Dutch state there is tension between the
stadholder, or princely figurehead, and the regents, since the former tends to act out of political ambition, and the latter are concerned with trade and the creation of wealth.
Even the
stadholder of the States of Holland in his position of commander-in-chief of army and navy was officially a servant of the States, because army and fleet (next to the whole central official apparatus of the Republic) were financed largely by taxation and loans provided by the fiscally autonomous provinces.