HIST-209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stadtholder
13 Mar 2019
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Netherlands: the netherlands became a global power, engaged in a war of independence to spain for 80 years. Spain wants to impose it"s rule on the netherlands and catholicism: william the silent: a nobleman who objected to spain"s growing attempts at centralization. Raised as a lutheran but converted to catholicism. Not a war about political principles: a group of 7 principalities; united province. Willing to accept a role for the prince or a king for the house of orange (nassau). There was a royal family who had to share power with the assemblies of the united provinces. The assemblies delegated their executive power to someone called stadtholder: Preconditions of how it became a great power. Wheat (before the potato) was the backbone of european agriculture for many centuries. Nobility preferred their serfs growing what (in the east). Much of netherlands territory was marshy so they produced intensive agriculture.
