| Philip William was Prince of Orange, a small territory in the south of France. I suppose, as his father's eldest son, he also inherited the hereditary lordship of some places in northern Brabant like Breda. He was certainly not the monarch of the United Provinces. So far as I am aware, he had no particularly important political role there at all. His younger half-brother Maurice was Stadtholder of Holland and four other provinces; a cousin was stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen. But not even Maurice can really be considered a monarch of the Netherlands, which was a federal republic. Certainly Philip William was nothing of the kind. |
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