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From: WJhonson <>
Subject: Re: Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926- )
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:25:04 -0700
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<<In a message dated 05/10/07 15:18:43 Pacific Standard Time, Jwc1870 writes:
William the Silent, Stadholder of the Netherlands who was
an elected ruler who drove out the Spanish. I believe his ancestry was mainly
German (House of Nassau). >>
William the Silent's eight great-grandparents were Nassau-Dillenburg, Heinsberg, Hessen, Katzenelnbogen, Stolberg, Mansfeld, Eppstein-Konigstein and van der Marck
So it looks like he was a pretty thorough German (HRE) type.
Will
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