Map of The Hague (1649) with:

1. Stadtholderly Court at the Binnenhof
2. Palace Noordeinde, the 'Old Court'
3. Frisian court

Map of Leeuwarden (1649) with the Frisian Stadtholderly Court.

This letter is an exquisite example of one of the small — in terms of size — letters Constantijn wrote to Amalia. Such minute and discrete letters were written during the military campaigns in which Constantijn reported frequently to Amalia regarding…

This letter is Mary's first to Frederik Hendrik and forms part of a group of eleven surviving letters that she wrote to her father-in-law. Frederik Hendrik is reputed to have been very fond of Mary, who at the time of his death in 1647 was still only…

Of the 151 letters currently in Sophia Hedwig's catalogue, twenty letters were written by her son Hendrik Casimir, who sent frequent reports to his mother about both his wellbeing and the military actions of what became known as the Eighty Years War…

On 31 October 1664 Willem Frederik van Nassau-Dietz, stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe, and husband of Albertine Agnes, died of the injuries sustained when his own gun went off accidentally and destroyed the lower part of his face.…

Although no letters from Henriette Amalia to her son have survived, a total of 231 letters from the other side of the correspondence — from Johan Willem Friso to his mother — have been preserved. The majority of these were sent from the battlefields…

In 1696, following the death of her husband Hendrik Casimir II (1657–1696), Henriette Amalia von Anhalt-Dessau became regent on behalf of her son Johan Willem Friso (1687–1711), and she held this post until he came of age in 1707.

A daughter of Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau and his wife Amalia von Solms-Braunfels, Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau was the first member of the Oranje-Nassau dynasty to marry into the family of Nassau-Dietz.

Amalia von Solms (1602–1675) was born in Braunfels, the third daughter of Count Johann Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels, and became lady-in-waiting to the ‘Winter Queen’, Elizabeth Stuart, around 1615. When Elizabeth’s court-in-exile moved to The Hague,…