stadtholdership

Noun

(plural stadtholderships)

The office or rank of a stadtholder.

Origin

stadtholder +‎ -ship

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His residence in the Netherlands fell in the most prosperous and brilliant days of the Dutch state, under the stadtholdership of Frederick Henry (1625-1647).
Of suspending the stadtholdership, as for instance after the death of William II., 1650, and of William III., 1702.
Count William Lewis of Nassau-Siegen, nephew and son-in-law of William the Silent, was chosen stadtholder, and through all the vicissitudes of the 17th and 18th centuries the stadtholdership was held by one of his descendants.

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