Prince Maurice I of Orange 1567-1625

On 6th July 1551 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 18] and Anna Egmond Princess Orange were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.

On 25th August 1561 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 28] and [his mother] Anna of Saxony [aged 16] were married. She by marriage Princess Orange. They had two sons, one of which died in infancy, and three daughters.

On 13th November 1567 Prince Maurice I of Orange was born to William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 34] and Anna of Saxony [aged 22].

On 24th June 1575 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 42] and [his step-mother] Charlotte Bourbon Princess Orange [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.

On 18th December 1577 [his mother] Anna of Saxony [aged 32] died.

On 24th April 1583 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 50] and Louise Coligny Princess Orange were married. She by marriage Princess Orange.

On 10th July 1584 [his father] William "The Silent" Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 51] died. His son [his half-brother] Philip [aged 29] succeeded William I Prince Orange.

Before 16th July 1594 [his brother-in-law] Frederick IV Elector Palatine [aged 20] and [his half-sister] Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Electress Palatine Rhine. He the son of Louis VI Elector Palatine.

After 1597 [his brother-in-law] Claude de La Tremoille 2nd Duke Thouars [aged 31] and [his half-sister] Charlotte Flandrina Orange Nassau [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Duchess Thouars. He the son of Louis III de La Tremoille 1st Duke Thouars and Jeanne Montmorency.

In 1602 [his illegitimate son] Louis Nassau Beverweert was born illegitimately to Prince Maurice I of Orange [aged 34] and Margaretha van Mechelen [aged 22].

In 1612 Prince Maurice I of Orange [aged 44] was appointed 409th Knight of the Garter by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 45]..

On 20th February 1618 [his half-brother] Philip William Orange Nassau I Prince Orange [aged 63] died. His half brother Prince [aged 50] succeeded I Prince Orange.

On 23rd April 1625 Prince Maurice I of Orange [aged 57] died. His half brother [his half-brother] Frederick [aged 41] succeeded II Prince Orange.

Before 27th June 1641 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt [aged 75]. Portrait of Prince Maurice I of Orange.

John Evelyn's Diary. 17th August 1641. I passed again through Delft, and visited the church in which was the monument of [his father] Prince William of Nassau, - the first of the Williams, and saviour (as they call him) of their liberty, which cost him his life by a vile assassination. It is a piece of rare art, consisting of several figures, as big as the life, in copper. There is in the same place a magnificent tomb of his son and successor, Maurice. The Senate-house hath a very stately portico, supported with choice columns of black marble, as I remember, of one entire stone. Within, there hangs a weighty vessel of wood, not unlike a butter-churn, which the adventurous woman that hath two husbands at one time is to wear on her shoulders, her head peeping out at the top only, and so led about the town, as a penance for her incontinence. From hence, we went the next day to Itvswick, a stately country-house of the Prince of Orange, for nothing more remarkable than the delicious walks planted with lime trees, and the modern paintings within.