William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

* April 29 – Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.

* February 16 – Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker.

* August 20 – Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.

Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his uncle Cornelis de Graeff pushed the States of Holland to take charge of William's education.

Gaspar Fagel replaced De Witt as Grand Pensionary, and was more friendly to William's interests.

Johan de Witt had been unable to function as Grand Pensionary after having been wounded by an attempt on his life on 21 June.

This perceived obduracy led to the eventual demise of the Republic when the short-lived experiment with the ( again authoritarian ) regime of " Grand Pensionary " Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck produced insufficient docility in the eyes of Napoleon.

Most Patriots went into exile in France, while the Ancien Régime strengthened its grip on the government through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck as Grand Pensionary

On May 10, 1805, Schimmelpenninck was therefore inaugurated as Raadpensionaris ( Grand Pensionary ) of the Batavian Republic.

The States of Holland sent their highest official, the Grand Pensionary Adriaan Pauw to London in a last desperate attempt to prevent war, but in vain: English demands had become so extreme that no self-respecting state could meet them.

This clause, overtly a demand by Cromwell fearing the Orangists, was perhaps inserted on the covert wishes of the leading Dutch politicians, the new Grand Pensionary, the young republican Johan de Witt, and his uncle Cornelis de Graeff.

The leading Dutch politician, the Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt, quickly restored confidence by joining the fleet personally.

Among the letters given to the Grand Pensionary, by mistake was included one containing the secret English instructions to their contacts in the Orange party, outlining plans for an overthrow of the States regime.

While publicly trying to appease tensions between France and the Republic, making ambassador William Temple avow friendship to Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, he secretly schemed to seduce Louis to a campaign against the Dutch.

De Witt had had to resign from his function of Grand Pensionary after he had been wounded by an attempt on his life in June.

However, Tromp's death was a severe blow to the Dutch – few now expected to beat the English ; the Orangist faction lost political influence and Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt was willing to give formal treaty assurances to Cromwell that the infant William III of Orange would never become stadtholder, thus turning the Netherlands into a base for a Stuart restoration.

The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary ( roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister ) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen — considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity.

Johan de Witt, his brother, Grand Pensionary of Holland.

The influential Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt suggested that the Spanish Netherlands be mutually divided.

* Andries de Witt ( 1573 – 1637 ), Grand Pensionary of Holland

* Johan de Witt ( 1625 – 1672 ), Grand Pensionary of Holland

" I cannot express to you ," wrote William to the Grand Pensionary Anthonie Heinsius in the Dutch Republic, " how distressed I am at the disasters of the fleet ; I am so much the more deeply affected as I have been informed that my ships did not properly support those of the Estates, and left them in the lurch.

The Holland leadership was emasculated by making sure that the position of Grand Pensionary would henceforth be filled by a succession of mediocre, incompetent and pliable Orangists, at least up to the appointment of Johan de Witt in 1653

In 1625 he published what seemed an innocent study from the antique, his tragedy of Palamedes, or Murdered Innocence, but which was a thinly veiled tribute to Johan van Oldebarnevelt, the Republic's Grand Pensionary, who had been executed in 1618 by order of stadtholder Maurice of Nassau.

Consequently, the city of Pori was founded to the coast by Johan, Grand Duke of Finland in 1558.

The mastermind behind the plan was the leading Dutch politician Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt.

De Ruyter was accompanied by the representative of the States-General of the Netherlands, Cornelis de Witt ( the brother of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt ) who bravely remained seated on the main deck, although half of his guard of honour standing next to him was killed or wounded.

As a result the cities of the remaining coastal provinces of Holland, Zealand and Frisia panicked and the city governments were taken over by Orangists, opposed to the republican regime of the Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt.

Johan de Witt was appointed Grand Pensionary of Holland and led the States of Holland, the most important province within the Union.

Obdam, who first received very complicated written instructions from Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and went so far as to request them again " in three words ", summed up his mission in a single sentence: " Save Copenhagen and punch anyone in the face who tries to prevent it ".

* Johan Esmer-The then Grand Theogonist of Sigmar, did not have a special character and did not get much attention throughout the campaign, but was central in its opening phases.

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