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[[William III]] was elected stadtholder of Utrecht and Holland in 1673 and 1674, respectively. The Dutch States Party, led by Grand Pensionary de Witt, attempted to halt his ascent to power but were ultimately unable to do so due to his popularity in the County and his connections both within and outside the Netherlands. Within the States Party, he found an ally in the mentally unstable figure of [[Conrad van Beuningen]], burgomaster of Amsterdam, who acted as a mediator between him and the republican segments of the States-General and the Council of State, allowing for peaceful administration of the Republic to continue.
As a young
The fervently Calvinistic German prince, Charles II, Elector Palatine died childless in 1682. He was the brother of William III's wife, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Princess of Orange. In order to prevent the Palatinate from being transferred to the rule of the Catholic Neuberg family, William III staked a claim on the region, traveling to the Holy Roman Empire. He successfully obtained the title of Elector Palatine shortly after, thus effectively uniting the Netherlands and the Palatinate in personal union. This also had the effect of creating an anti-French polity to the east of France, causing Louis XIV to be blocked from all sides except south.
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==== Anglo-Dutch Union ====
{{Main|Anglo-Dutch Union}}
Oliver Cromwell first proposed a "partial fusion of sovereignties" between England and the Netherlands in 1651 in order to advance the Protestant interest in western Europe and resist Catholic expansion. This idea was firmly opposed by the Dutch Council of State and Britain's radical Fifth Monarchists. On 25 October 1653 and 18 November 1653, possible union as between the two countries as proposed by Oliver Cromwell were wholeheartedly rejected by the Dutch government for the last time. Just under four decades later in 1692, the countries would enter into personal union under [[William III]], who in fact possessed the stadtholdership of Holland, Zeeland, and Utrecht, the Crown of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as the countship of the Palatinate. It should be noted that while leading the Netherlands this Anglo-Dutch union was never a true political union and rather it was an aliging of foreign policy objectives.
== Silver Century ==
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