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A26186 The lives of all the princes of Orange, from William the Great, founder of the Common-wealth of the United Provinces written in French by the Baron Maurier, in the year 1682, and published at Paris, by order of the French King ; to which is added the life of His present Majesty King William the Third, from his birth to his landing in England, by Mr. Thomas Brown ; together with all the princes heads taken from original draughts.; Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Hollande et des autres Provinces-Unies. English Aubery du Maurier, Louis, 1609-1687.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. 1693 (1693) Wing A4184; ESTC R22622 169,982 381

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the 15th day of Novemb. 1623. Signed LOWIS and below Brulart In pursuance of this Order the Ceremony of the Baptism was performed Prince Maurice represented the King of Sweden who was likewise Godfather and the Countess of Nassau the Queen of Sweden My Father Walked as Embassador of France with the King of Bohemia on his Right Hand and the Prince of Orange on his Left The Ceremony was celebrated with great Pomp in a Church at the Hague called the Cloistre where I was present with my three Brothers For which great Honour the King and Queen of Bohemia thanked the King of France by Monsieur D'Ausson de Villeroul of the House of Iaucourt Brother-in-Law to my Father who was in their Service and afterwards unhappily perished with Prince Henry Frederick by the splitting of the Vessel which I mentioned before The Pope's Nuncio Resident at Paris hearing of this Baptism made great Complaints of it at Court and said 't was a great Shame for the most Christian King and eldest Son of the Church to have his Person represented by a Huguenot in an Ecclesiastical Ceremony The King and Queen of Bohemia left behind them several Princesses eminent for their Beauty and Merit one of whom turned Catholick and is now Abbess de Maubuisson The Princess Louise Iuliane de Nassau eldest Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon and William Prince of Orange had also a Daughter by Frederick the IV. Elector Palatine who was married to the late Elector of Brandenburg Father to the present Elector I saw A. D. 1635. the old Electoress Palatine a Konigsberg the Capital of the Ducal Prussia where she had retired to her Daughter the Electoress of Brandenbourg after the Disorders of the Palatinate These two Princesses were extreamly civil to me The second Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon and William Prince of Orange was Elizabeth de Nassau Wife to Henry de la Tour Duke of Bouillon a Famous General in the the Wars of Henry the IV She was living in the year 1641. and I saw her in the Castle of Sedan after the Battle wherein the Count de Soissons was killed She left two Sons and four Daughters who had Children The eldest was Frederick Maurice de la Tour Duke of Bouillon as great a Captain as his Father who by the Countess de Bergue had the present Duke of Bouillon Great Chamberlain of France and the Cardinal de Bouillon a Prince of great Learning and Merit and the Count D'Auvergne who has distinguished himself in our Armies and other Children among the rest the Dutchess D'Elbeuf The second Son of Elizabeth de Nassau and Henry de la Tour Duke of Bouillon was the Famous Henry de la Tour Viscount de Turenne a General of as great Wisdom and Valour who during the whole Course of his Life was held for one of the firmest Pillars of the State and in consideration of his extraordinary Valour and great Services was interr'd at St. Denys with our Kings by a just Order of his Majesty He married the Heireress of the House de la Force whose Vertue equalled her Birth she was Daughter to the deceased Duke de la Force and Grand-daughter to a Mareschal of that Name two Famous Captains and died without Issue but if she had left any Children behind her they could not have failed of being great Men being descended on both sides from an illustrious Number of generous Ancestors Besides these two great Sons Elizabeth de Nassau had several Daughters by Henry de la Tour Duke de Bouillon The eldest Anna Maria de la Tour married Henry Duke de la Trimouille and de Thouars her Cousin German Iuliane de la Tour was married to Francis de Roye de la Rochefoucault Count de Roussy Father to the Count de Roye very Famous in our Armies Elizabeth Wife of Guy Alfonse de Darfort Marquess of Duras Father to Monsieur de Duras Captain of the Guards du Corps to the King Mareschal of France Governour of the Franche Comtè and of the Count de Lorge likewise Mareschal of France I believe that the youngest was called Henrietta de la Tour Wife to the late Marquess de la Moissy of the House of Matignon She is Mother to the Marquese Du Bordage and the Count de Quintine who married a Lady of the Illustrious Name of Montgomery as considerable for her Beauty and Merit as the Greatness of her Extraction The third Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon and William Prince of Orange was named Catharine Belgique who married Philip Louis Count of Hanau a Sovereign Lord near Francfort on the Main from whom besides the Counts of Hanau is descended Amelia Elizabeth Wife to that generous William Landtgrave of Hesse who died in the year 1637. after whose Death this Princess a Woman of a masculine Courage continued on the War against the Imperialists and pursued the Steps of her Husband who after the Peace of Prague where most of the Protestant Princes forsook their Allies and joined with the House of Austria had the Courage and Resolution to make head almost alone against so formidable a Power Among other Children she left the present Landtgrave of Hesse called William as his Father was the Electoress Palatine Mother to the Dutchess of Orleans and the Princess of Tarente Mother to the present Duke de la Trimouille who is married to the Heiress of the House of Crequi The fourth Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon and the Prince of Orange was Charlotte Brabantine Wife to Claude Duke de la Trimouille and de Thouars Count de la Val who had Henry Duke de la Trimouille dead lately and Frederick de la Trimouille Count de Laval killed in a Duel in Italy by the late Monsieur Du Coudray Montpensier I saw him and knew him in my youth and because his upper Lip was slit they called him Bec de lievere or Hare-Lip Henry Duke de la Trimouille had by Mary de la Tour his Cousin German formerly mentioned the Prince de Tarent and de Talmont who is dead and who had the Duke of Trimouille already mentioned by the Princess of Hesse The fifth Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon and the Prince of Orange was Charlotte Flandrine de Nassau who returning to the Religion of her Ancestors died Abbess of S. Croix in Poictiers She was a very good Princess I knew her but was little and so deaf that she could not hear without a little Silver Trumpet The sixth Daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon Princess of Orange was Aemilia of Nassau Wife to Frederick Casimir Count Palatine of the Branch of Duponts called the Duke of Lansberg This is the illustrious and great Posterity of this Fruitful Abbess The fourth and last Wife of William of Nassau Prince of Orange was Louise de Coligny Widow to Monsieur de Teligny and Daughter to the great Admiral de Chatillon by whom he had only one Son the renowned Henry Frederick Prince of Orange of whom we