Adolf van Nieuwenaar, Count of Limburg and Moers (also: Adolf von Neuenahr) (c. 1545 – 18 October 1589) was a statesman and soldier, who was stadtholder of Overijssel, Guelders and Utrecht for the States-General of the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War.
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AdolfvanNieuwenaar, Count of Limburg and Moers (also: Adolf von Neuenahr) (c. 1545 – 18 October 1589) was a statesman and soldier, who was stadtholder...
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more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs...
under the name of Krinvelde. In February 1598, Walburga, wife of AdolfvanNieuwenaar, and last Countess of Limburg and Moers, gave the County of Moers...
After crossing the English Channel they joined the States troops of AdolfvanNieuwenaar then headed towards Arnhem with 2,500 men where they intended to...
held an influential position under the employment of stadtholder AdolfvanNieuwenaar. He married Susanna Patersson, with whom he had three children in...
fief of her late spouse. She remarried her 20 years younger nephew AdolfvanNieuwenaar in 1569 or 1570. He was a Protestant on the side of the Prince of...
Spain. Also many higher nobles who remained Catholic, such as Van Renesse and a branch of Van der Hooghe, departed to the Spanish Netherlands in the South...
matter of fact, there were the precedents of Willem IV van den Bergh and AdolfvanNieuwenaar in Gelderland in early Republican times. But the Holland...
stadtholder Adolf vanNieuwenaar. His uncle was Abraham Gorlaeus. His mother was a Frisian noblewoman, the daughter of admiral Doecke van Martena, known...
Holland and Zeeland, and with 4000 florins. The next month, he and AdolfvanNieuwenaar were defeated by the Spanish general Juan Baptista de Tassis at the...
the German mercenary commander Maarten Schenk van Nydeggen on the orders of stadtholder AdolfvanNieuwenaar in 1586. Its location was strategically chosen...
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