In 1580 Stadtholder Willem Lodewijk van Nassau-Dillenburg purchased and took up residence at the Rolkemahuis in Leeuwarden, which had been built in 1564 for Philips II Boudewijn van Loo, the rentmeester-generaal to Philip II. In 1603 Willem Lodewijk…

In 1672 Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau commissioned the building of a palace in the German county Dietz. She named this palace Oranienstein. It was built on the foundations of a Benedictine monastery.
Following Albertine's death in 1696, her…

The Frisian stadtholders were endowed with the fiefdom Dietz in present-day Germany. The 'Duke's Castle' (built in the eleventh century) was the main residence of Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbütteland and she remained there after the death…