Letters make the family : Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the seventeenth century
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Broomhall, Susan. (2009). Letters make the family : Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the seventeenth century. In In Campbell, Julie D. and Larsen, Anne R. (Ed.). Early modern women and transnational communities of letters pp. 25-44 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315257211-12
Authors | Broomhall, Susan |
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Editors | Campbell, Julie D. and Larsen, Anne R. |
Abstract | On July 10, 1584, William the Silent, after lunching at the Prinsenhof, the family’s home in Delft, with his wife, sister, and several of his daughters, rose from the table. Crossing the hallway he was intercepted by the Catholic assassin, Balthasar Gérard, shot three times with a pistol, and died several hours later. Thus, as William was lamented across the Dutch Republic and wider Protestant world, the small community of the Nassau family lost its patriarch, a wife turned widow, and all but one of his children became orphans. |
Page range | 25-44 |
Year | 2009 |
Book title | Early modern women and transnational communities of letters |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London, United Kingdom |
New York, New York | |
Series | Women and gender in the early modern world |
ISBN | 9781138247086 |
9780754667384 | |
9781315257211 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315257211-12 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
2009 | |
Online | 29 Nov 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 14 Nov 2023 |
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