The Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse at Haarlem by Frans Hals, 1664
The regenten (Dutch plural for regent) were the rulers of the Dutch Republic from the 16th through the 18th century, the leaders of the Dutch cities or the heads of organisations (e.g. "regent of an orphanage"). Though not formally a hereditary "class", they were de facto "patricians", comparable to that ancient Roman class. Since the Late Middle Ages Dutch cities had been run by the richer merchant families, who gradually formed a closed group. At first the lower-class citizens in the guilds and schutterijen could unite to form a certain counterbalance to the regenten, but in the course of the 15th century the administration of the cities and towns became oligarchical in character. From the latter part of the 17th century the regent families were able to reserve government offices to themselves via quasi-formal contractual arrangements. In practice they could only be dislodged by political upheavals, like the Orangist revolution of 1747 and the Patriot revolt of 1785.
The regenten (Dutch plural for regent) were the rulers of the Dutch Republic from the 16th through the 18th century, the leaders of the Dutch cities or...
forming a de facto patrician class, were informally known collectively as regenten (the Dutch plural for regent) because they typically held positions as...
choice of sides was driven by the contest for power between members of the Regenten class. Local groups often simply adopted the opposite position taken by...
Golden Age. He belonged to the wealthy and powerful Dutch patriciate, the regenten, and is best known as the central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece The...
number of Dutch cities, where they replaced the old system of co-option of regenten with a system of democratically elected representatives. This enabled them...
maintain the existing Mataram administrative structure. Adipati were called "regenten" in Dutch,[citation needed] and the territories they administered, "regentschappen"...
in 1795, the Dutch elite of Cape Town – known locally in Dutch as the regenten or bestuurs-elite - quickly developed a sense of class solidarity with...
officials in strategic government positions to wrest control from the regenten. The struggle involved religious, anti-Catholic, and democratic elements...
Dillen, J.G. van, (1970) Van Rijkdom tot Regenten, p. 169. (in Dutch) Dillen, J.G. van, (1970) Van Rijkdom tot Regenten, p. 127. Klein, P.W. (1965) De Trippen...
verzet in Amsterdam, 1566-1567 (Nijmegen, SUN, 1978). Van ridders tot regenten. De Hollandse adel in de zestiende en de eerste helft van de zeventiende...
Orangists and preferred a shift of power from the central government to the regenten. However, his neglect of the Dutch States Army (as the regents focused...
several cities he also received support of friends among the city leaders (regenten). In his work The terrae Ambitus vera quantitate (1617) under the author's...
Dummler, Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches (Leipzig, 1887–88) E. Muhlbacher, Die Regenten des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern (Innsbruck, 1881)...
Otto von Bismarck from the unification of Germany in 1871 until 1890. Regenten und Regierungen der Welt, Vol. 2,3. Neueste Zeit: 1492–1917, ed. by B....
recitative is omitted. Schafe können sicher weiden Wo ein guter Hirte wacht. Wo Regenten wohl regieren Kann man Ruh' und Friede spüren Und was Länder glücklich...
Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteijn Wittert van Hoogland Wladimiroff Van der Wyck Regenten List of Dutch patrician families "«The Royal family consists of the members...
Fleck, and Kallenberg: Großherzogtum Hessen, p. 883. Manfred Knodt, Die Regenten von Hessen-Darmstadt. H. L. Schlapp, 2nd Edition, Darmstadt 1977, p. 149...
978-3-88443-411-6, Nr. HD 70, S. 345–346 (Eckhart G. Franz). Manfred Knodt: Die Regenten von Hessen-Darmstadt. Schlapp, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-87704-004-7, S. 80–82...
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