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{{Other uses|Prins van Oranje (disambiguation){{!}}Prins van Oranje}}
{{See also|Princess of Orange}}

[[File:Coat of Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|thumb|right|Coat of Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815–1884)]]

[[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|200px|right|thumb|[[Coat of Arms]] of the counts of Orange of the first house of Orange.  It came to stand for the principality of Orange.<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746">{{cite book |title=Armorial général, contenant la description des armoiries des familles nobles et patriciennes de l'Europe: précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason|first=Johannes Baptist|last =Rietstap|publisher=G.B. van Goor|year=1861|page=746}}</ref>. The homophony of the town's name with the fruit is a coincidence.  The bugle-horn, supposedly derived from the first prince's surname "au Courb-nez" (curved-nosed or perhaps short-nosed), transformed into "au cornet" (with the bugle). The Orange-Nassau bore en-surtout an escutcheon used a quartering of Chalon and Orange, either as grand-quarter or en-surtout (see a testoon or a gold double pistole of Frederic-Henri, who reigned 1625 to 1647); although, as king of England, William III simply used an escutcheon of Nassau.]]

[[File:Blason ville fr Orange (Vaucluse).svg|200px|right|thumb|[[Coat of Arms]] of the city/town of [[Orange, Vaucluse|Orange]] in the Vaucluse. They were granted to the city by the princes of Orange of the house of des Baux in the last quarter of the 12th century.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Histoire de la ville d'Orange|url = http://www.ville-orange.fr/sortir02.htm|accessdate = May 5, 2011}}</ref>]]


'''[[Prince of Orange]]''' is a [[title]] originally associated with the sovereign  [[Principality of Orange]], in what is now southern France. Under the [[Treaty of Utrecht]] of 1713, [[Frederick William I of Prussia]] ceded the Principality of Orange to King [[Louis XIV of France]] (while retaining the title as part of his dynastic titulature). After [[William III of England]] died without children, a dispute arose between [[John William Friso, Prince of Orange|Johan Willem Friso]] and [[Frederick I of Prussia]], which was settled in the [[Treaty of Partition (1732)]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/berlin1732.htm|title=Treaty between Prussia and Orange-Nassau, Berlin, 1732|website=Heraldica.org|language=French|accessdate=16 June 2015}}</ref> consequently, Friso's son, [[William IV, Prince of Orange|William IV]] had to share use of the title "Prince of Orange" (which had accumulated prestige in the Netherlands and throughout the [[Protestant]] world) with [[Frederick William I of Prussia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Peele|first=Ada|date=2013|title=Een uitzonderlijke erfgenaam: De verdeling van de nalatenschap van Koning-Stadhouder Willem II en een consequentie daarvan: Pruisisch heerlijk gezag in Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, 1702–1754|edition=1st|isbn= 978-9-087-04393-3|chapter=Part 1: "De verdeling van de nalatenschap van Willem III”|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren B.V.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAgUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Traktaat+van+Partage&source=bl&ots=iGoZC1rSdy&sig=ao7A7GCqxMR5JfH0ZsuSXgYBOnc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBWoVChMIiMDJ8sKUxgIVwesUCh1wgQBa#v=onepage&q=traktaat&f=false}}</ref> The title is traditionally borne by the [[heir apparent]] of the [[King of the Netherlands|Dutch monarch]]. The title descends via [[absolute primogeniture]] since 1983, meaning that its holder can be either Prince or Princess of Orange.

The Dutch royal dynasty, the [[House of Orange-Nassau]], is not the only family to claim the title. Rival claims to the title have been made by German emperors and kings of the [[House of Hohenzollern]] and by the head of the French noble family of Mailly. The current users of the title are [[Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange]] ''[[suo jure]]'' (Orange-Nassau), [[Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia]] (Hohenzollern), and Guy, Marquis de [[Mailly-Maillet|Mailly-Nesle]] (Mailly).

==History==

===County of Orange===
[[Image:Nason, Pieter (attributed to) - Four generations Princes of Orange - William I, Maurice and Frederick Henry, William II and William III - 1662-1666.jpg|thumb|225px|Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange – William I (in office 1554–1584), Maurice (1618–1625) and Frederick Henry (1625–1647), William II (1647–1650), William III (1650–1702) – ''(Willem van Honthorst, 1662)'']]

The title originally referred to [[Orange, Vaucluse|Orange]] in the [[Vaucluse]] department in the [[Rhône River|Rhone]] valley of southern [[France]], which was a property of the House of Orange, then of the [[House of Baux]] and the [[House of Châlon-Arlay]] before passing in 1544 to the [[House of Orange-Nassau]].

The Principality originated as the ''County of Orange'', a [[fief]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]], in the Empire's constituent [[King of Burgundy|Kingdom of Burgundy]]. It was awarded to [[William of Gellone]] (born 755), a grandson of [[Charles Martel]] and therefore a cousin of [[Charlemagne]], around the year 800 for his services in the wars against the Moors and in the reconquest of southern France and the [[Marca Hispanica|Spanish March]].  His [[Occitan]] name is ''Guilhem'';  however, as a Frankish lord, he probably knew himself by the old Germanic version of [[William (name)|''Wilhelm'']].  William also ruled as [[count of Toulouse]], duke of Aquitaine,{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} and marquis of [[Septimania]].

The horn that came to symbolize Orange when heraldry came in vogue much later in the 12th century represented a pun on [[William of Gellone]]'s name in French, from the character his deeds inspired in the ''[[chanson de geste]]'', the ''[[Chanson de Guillaume]]'': "Guillaume au Court-nez" (William the Short-Nosed) or its homophone "Guillaume au Cornet" (William the Horn).<ref name="Grew 1947">{{Cite book
  | last = Grew
  | first = Marion Ethel
  | title = The House of Orange
  | publisher = Methuen & Co. Ltd
  | year = 1947
  | location = 36 Essex Street, Strand, London W.C.2
  | pages = 2–3
  |accessdate = 2015-01-15
  }}
</ref>
The ''chanson'' appears to incorporate material relating to William of Gellone's battle at the [[Orbieu]] or Orbiel river near [[Carcassonne]] in 793 as well as to [[Prise d'Orange|his seizure of the town of Orange]].<ref>
{{Cite book
|editor = Geneviève Hasenohr and Michel Zink 
|title = Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le Moyen Age |location = Collection La Pochothèque. Paris |publisher = Fayard| year = 1992| ISBN = 2-253-05662-6
}}
</ref>

===Principality of Orange===
As the kingdom of Burgundy fragmented in the early Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick I Barbarossa]] elevated the lordship of Orange to a principality in 1163 to shore up his supporters in Burgundy against the Pope and the King of France. As the Empire's boundaries retreated from those of the principality, the prince acceded to the sovereign rights that the Emperor formerly exercised.<ref name="Grew 1947"/>{{rp|7}} As [[William I of Orange|William the Silent]] wrote in his marriage proposal to the uncle of his second wife, [[Augustus, Elector of Saxony|the Elector August of Saxony]], he held Orange as "my own free property", not as a [[fief]] of any [[suzerain]]; neither the Pope, nor the Kings of Spain or France.<ref>{{cite book |title=The princes of Orange: the stadholders in the Dutch Republic|first=Herbert H.|last =Rowen|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1988|page=11|isbn=0-8063-4811-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=William I to Elector August I of Saxony, 16 April 1564|title=Archives ou correspondance inedite de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau|editor-first =F.Groen|editor-last =van Prinsterer|publisher=Leiden and Utrecht|year=1835–1915|series= series 1|volume=vol. 1|page=232|display-editors=etal}}</ref>  That historical position of honor and reputation would later drive William the Silent forward, as much as it also fueled the opposition of his great grandson [[William III of England|William III]] to [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]], when that king invaded and occupied Orange.

The last direct descendant of the original princes, [[René of Châlon]], exercised his sovereign right and left the principality to his cousin [[William I of Orange|William the Silent]], who was not a descendant of the original Orange family but the heir to the principality of Orange by testament.  This was, however, against the inheritance pattern enacted by the last will of [[Mary of Baux-Orange]], the Princess of Orange from the [[House of Baux]] who brought the principality into the Chalons family and through to whom Prince René derived his own inheritance right (see [[House of Chalon-Arlay#Family tree of House of Chalon-Arlay|Genealogy of the House of Orange-Châlon]]).  In this way, Rene transmitted his property to his nearest relative, rather than go back several generations to transmit it to now distant cousins.

[[File:Oranje1547.png|200px|right|thumb|Map of the [[principality of Orange]] in the 16th century.]]

Those now distant cousins were the descendants of Alix de Chalons.  Marie des Baux-Orange had stipulated in her will that if her son [[Louis II of Chalon-Arlay|Louis]] did not inherit Orange, her daughter Alix and her descendants should.  Guillaume de Vienne, seigneur de Saint-Georges<ref>Histoire généalogique de la maison de Joux, page 74 [https://books.google.fr/books?id=nksPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Histoire+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9alogique+de+la+maison+de+Joux&hl=fr&ei=aZwJTvG3Ncio8QOZwcSOAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref>, was the husband of Alix.  They had a daughter Marguerite, who married in 1449 [[:fr:Rodolphe IV de Hochberg|Rudolf of Baden-Hochberg]], lord of Neufchâtel and Rothelin (1427-87). Their son was [[:fr:Philippe de Hochberg|Philip]] (d. 1503).  His only child who reached maturity was [[:fr:Jeanne de Hochberg|Johanna]] (d. 1543).  She married in 1504 [[:fr:Louis Ier d'Orléans-Longueville|Louis I of Orleans]], duc de Longueville (1450-1516).  Through this marriage, the Orléans-Longueville, an illegitimate branch of the house of Valois, were the claimants of Orange until their extinction in male line in 1694 <ref>{{cite web
| url = https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famille_d%27Orléans-Longueville
| title = Famille d'Orléans-Longueville
| access-date = 28 June 2022
| quote = the last male Longueville, Jean-Louis-Charles, had died in 1694. The only surviving sibling of Jean-Louis-Charles de Longueville was Marie, widow of the duc de Nemours, died childless in 1707. The Longueville claim (descended from Alix de Chalon) fragmented into multiple claims. Marie had adopted as heir an illegitimate child of Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons, named Louis Henri de Bourbon (1640-1703). He left a daughter Louise Léontine Jacqueline (1696-1721), who married Charles Philippe d'Albert, duc de Luynes (d. 1758) who made a claim for the inheritance. Marie's father was Henri, none of whose siblings left surviving issue. To find more heirs, one has to return to her grandfather Henri's sister Antoinette (1571-1618), who married in 1587 Charles de Gondi, and Eleonore (b. 1573), who married in 1596 Charles de Matignon, comte de Thorigny (1648), whence the house of Matignon; then his great-grandfather Leonor's sister Françoise Eléonore (1549-1601), who married Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé, whence the houses of Condé and Conti.}}</ref>(see [[:fr:Famille d'Orléans-Longueville|Famille d'Orléans-Longueville]]). When William the Silent of Nassau succeeded as prince of Orange, the Orléans-Longueville protested and obtained court decisions in their favor in France.  However, as Orange was a sovereign state and not part of France, the courts' decisions were not enforceable and left the principality in the hands of the Nassau-Orange family.

In 1673, [[Louis XIV of France]], as part of the [[Franco-Dutch War]] (1672-1678) invaded and annexed all territory of the principality to France and to the royal domain, as part of the war actions against the [[stadtholder]] [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] — who later became King William III of [[Great Britain]]. Orange ceased to exist as a sovereign realm, [[de facto]].  Louis then bestowed the titular princedom on [[Louis Charles de Mailly]], marquis de Nesle, (see [[:fr:Maison de Mailly|House of Mailly]]) whose wife was a direct descendant, and heiress-general by primogeniture, of the original princes of Orange,<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Pontbriant
  | first = A. de
  | title = Histoire de la principauté d'Orange ; suivie de lettres inédites des princes d'Orange, des rois de France, du Cte de Grignan, etc., etc
  | work = Seguin frères
  | location = Avignon
  | page = 262
  | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f/f41.tableDesMatieres
  | accessdate = 19 May 2011
  | publisher = Bibliothèque nationale de France
  | id = ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f<!--http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f-->
  | language = French
  | quote = This was through Jean de Chalon, sire de Vitteaux (d. 1462) (see [[:fr:Jean III de Chalon-Arlay|Jean III de Chalon-Arlay]] and [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110603115] and (''Annales historiques du Comté de Neuchâtel et Valangin depuis Jules-César jusqu'en 1722'', Jonas Boyve, édition E. Mathey, 1854, p.468, [https://books.google.fr/books?id=WEgPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false Google livres]). His eldest son Charles (see [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110603113]) left a daughter and heiress Charlotte (see [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110603111]), married in 1480 Adrien de Sainte-Maure, comte de Nesle (d. 1507) (see Abbé Ambroise Ledru, [[#Ledru-I|op. cit. en bibliographie]], pp. 451-455  and in second marriage to François de Tourzel d'Alègre, lord of Precy. There was issue from both marriages, and claims in both issues. From the second marriage of Charlotte de Chalon were born two daughters, the eldest Anne (see [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110586826]) married Antoine Duprat, whence claims by the Duprat and Alègre families (their daughter Antoinette married Christophe d'Alègre). From the first marriage the representation passes through their son Jean (d. 1526) to his daughter Louise, married to Gilles de Laval (d. 1559), to their daughter Gabrielle married in 1540 to François aux Épaules (d. 1593), to their son René (d. 1650), to his daughter Madeleine married to Bertrand-André de Monchy, to their daughter Jeanne (1628-1713) married to Louis-Charles de Mailly (1618-1708) (see [[:fr:Maison de Mailly|House of Mailly]]). Their eldest son Louis de Mailly (1662-99) left a son Louis (1689-1764) who saw his claims to the principality confirmed by an Arrêt du Conseil of 25 Jan 1706. This was ignored when Orange was awarded to the prince de Conti. Louis de Mailly-Nesle left only five daughters (famous for having been the mistresses of Louis XV in succession) and a sister Charlotte married but without surviving issue. At his death the title passed to his first cousin Louis de Mailly, seigneur de Rubempré (1696-1767), whose descendants continue to use the title (see the death announcement of "Jean Arnoult Auguste Marquis de Mailly-Nesle, Prince d'Orange" in Le Figaro, 14 October 2001}}</ref>

Orange was returned to [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] in 1678/1679 by the terms of the [[Treaties of Nijmegen]].

Louis XIV again invaded and annexed Orange during the [[Nine Years' War]]/War of the League of Augsburg.  He was forced to return the principality again to William III as part of the [[Peace of Ryswick]] in 1697 and recognize William as King of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Louis XIV conquered Orange once again as part of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1702-1714).  As part of the [[Peace of Utrecht]] in 1714, and as William III had died in 1702 without any children, the principality of Orange was permanently annexed to the France.  

After the marquise (who died in 1713), the next holder was {{illm|Louis of Mailly-Nesle|fr|Louis III de Mailly-Nesle}}, marquis de Nesle (1689–1764). Although no longer descended from Louis-Charles, a branch of the Mailly family still claim the title today.

In 1714 Louis XIV bestowed the [[usufruct]] of the principality on his kinsman, Louis Armand of Bourbon, Prince de Conti, who had a claim on the principality through the claims of the Orléans-Longueville via Alix of Chalons (see above). After his death in 1727 the principality was deemed merged in the Crown by 1731.<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Pontbriant
  | first = A. de
  | title = Histoire de la principauté d'Orange ; suivie de lettres inédites des princes d'Orange, des rois de France, du Cte de Grignan, etc., etc
  | work = Seguin frères
  | location = Avignon
  | page = 262 & following, 273 & following
  | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f/f41.tableDesMatieres
  | accessdate = 19 May 2011
  | publisher = Bibliothèque nationale de France
  | id = ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f<!--http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb341253894-->
  | language = French}}</ref>

After the [[Peace of Utrecht|Treaty of Utrecht]] in 1713 ceded Orange to France, the following claimants came forward in official protests against the terms of the treaty<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Mably
  | title = Le droit public de l'Europe, fondé sur les traités 1761
  | volume = 2
  | page = 152
  | language = French}}</ref>:

* the [[Duke of Luynes|house of Luynes]]/[[:fr:Maison d'Albert de Luynes|Maison d'Albert de Luynes]] (protest, 14 Apr 1713)
* the [[:fr:Maison de Goüyon|house of Matignon]] (protest, 15 Apr and 2 Jun 1713)
* Paule-Françoise-Marguerite de Gondi de Retz, duchesse douairière de Lesdiguières, and the [[Neufville de Villeroy family|house of Villeroy]]/[[:fr:Maison de Neufville de Villeroy|Maison de Neufville de Villeroy]] (16 Apr 1713; also claimants to Neufchatel and Valengin)
* the house of Allegre (protest, 15 Apr 1713)
* the [[:fr: Antoine Duprat#Famille|house of Duprat]] (protest, 15 Apr 1713)

However, as the treaty considered Orange to now be conquered by and annexed to France, their protests were ignored.

===Abolition of the principality, continuation of the title===
Because William III died without legitimate children, the principality was regarded as having been inherited by his closest [[cognate relative]] on the basis of the testament of Frederic-Henry, [[Frederick I of Prussia]], who ceded the principality — at least the lands, but not the formal title — to France in 1713.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Vast
  | first = , Henri (1847–1921). Éditeur scientifique
  | title = Traité de paix d'Utrecht entre Louis XIV et Frédéric-Guillaume, roi de Prusse
  | work = Les grands traités du règne de Louis XIV ([Reprod.]) publ. par Henri Vast
  | page = 125 (article X.)
  | publisher = IDC (Leiden)
  | url = http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-96031&I=128&M=tdm Treaty ceding the Principality to Louis XIV
  | accessdate = 16 May 2011
  | language = French}}</ref>
France supported his claim. In this way, the territory of the principality lost its feudal and secular privileges and became a part of France. The [[Treaty of Utrecht]] allowed the King of Prussia to erect part of the duchy of Gelderland (the cities of Geldern, Straelen and Wachtendonk with their bailiwicks, Krickenbeck, Viersen, the land of Kessel, the lordships of Afferden, Arcen-Velden-Lomm, Walbeck-Twisteden, Raay and Klein-Kevelaer, Well, Bergen and Middelaar) into a new ''Principality of Orange''.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Vast
  | first = , Henri (1847–1921). Éditeur scientifique
  | title = Traité de paix d'Utrecht entre Louis XIV et Frédéric-Guillaume, roi de Prusse
  | trans_title = Peace treaty of Utrecht between Louis XIV and Frédéric-Guillaume, King of Prussia
  | work = Les grands traités du règne de Louis XIV ([Reprod.]) publ. par Henri Vast
  | page = 126 (article X.)
  | publisher = IDC (Leiden)
  | url = http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-96031&I=128&M=tdm
  | accessdate = 16 May 2011
  | language = French}}</ref>
The kings of Prussia and the German emperors styled themselves Princes of Orange till 1918.
[[File:Orange Principality Map.jpg|200px|right|thumb|A detailed map of the principality in the first half of the 17th century reproduced from the famous 1627 Atlas of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. The area of the principality was approximately 12 miles long by 9 miles wide, or 108 sq. miles.<ref>{{cite book|authors =George Ripley; Charles A. Dana|title =The New American Cyclopædia. 16 volumes complete.|publisher =D. Appleton and Company|year =1873|chapter = Principality of Orange}}</ref>]]

An [[agnatic relative]] of William III, [[John William Friso, Prince of Orange|John William Friso of Nassau]], who was also [[cognate|cognatically]] descended from [[William the Silent]], was designated the heir to the princes of Orange in the Netherlands by the last will of William III.  Several of his descendants became stadtholders. They claim the principality of Orange on the basis of agnatic inheritance, similar to that of William the Silent, who had inherited Orange from his cousin René of Châlon. They did however have a claim, albeit distant, to the principality itself due to John William Friso's descent from [[Louise de Coligny]], who was a descendant of the original Princes of Orange. (Louise's great grandmother, Anne Pot, Countess of St. Pol, was a descendant of [[Tiburge|Tiburge d'Orange]], who married into the des Baux family) <ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00000013&tree=LEO</ref><ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00028983&tree=LEO&parentset=0&display=standard&generations=4</ref><ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00416982&tree=LEO&display=standard</ref><ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00295603&tree=LEO&display=standard</ref>

They could also claim descent from the del Balzo, an Italian branch of the des Baux family, via the marriage of [[Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Princess Anne]] to [[William IV, Prince of Orange]]. Anne was the eldest daughter of [[George II of Great Britain]], who was a descendant of [[Elizabeth Woodville]], wife of [[Edward IV of England]]. Elizabeth Woodwille's grandmother was [[Margherita del Balzo]], another descendant of Tiburge d'Orange.<ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00001713&tree=LEO</ref><ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00079810&tree=LEO&display=standard</ref><ref>http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00079868&tree=LEO&display=standard</ref>

They also claimed on the basis of the testament of Philip William, Maurice and William III. Finally, they claimed on the basis that Orange was an independent state whose sovereign had the right to assign his succession according to his will. France never recognized any of this, nor allowed the Orange-Nassaus or the Hohenzollerns to obtain anything of the principality itself. The Oranje-Nassaus nevertheless assumed the title and also erected several of their lordships into a new principality of Orange.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Velde
  | first = François
  | title = Treaty between Prussia and Orange-Nassau, Berlin, 1732
  | work = Preussens Staatsvertraege aus der Regierungzzeit König Friedrich Wilhelms I.
  | page = 404
  | publisher = 33 CTS 487
  | url = http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/berlin1732.htm
  | accessdate = 16 May 2011
  | language = French}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite journal
  | last = Dumont
  | first = Jean, Baron de Carlscroon ( continued after Dumonts death by J. Rousset)
  | title = Treaty between Prussia and Orange-Nassau, Berlin, 1732
  | work = Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens, contenant un recueil des traités de paix, d'alliance, &c., faits en Europe, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à present, Supplement
  | publisher = Amsterdam
  | volume = II, part II
  | page = 335
  | url = http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/berlin1732.htm
  | accessdate = 16 May 2011
  | language = French}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Blok
  | first = Petrus Johannes
  | title = The History of the People of the Netherlands
  | volume = 5, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  | page = 60
  | publisher = AMS Press
  | year = 1970
  | location = New York, NY
  }}</ref>
From that derivation of the title comes the tradition of the [[House of Orange-Nassau|house of Nassau-Dietz]], the later stadtholders of the Netherlands, and the present-day royal family of the Netherlands, of holding this title. They maintain the tradition of [[William the Silent]] and the [[house of Orange-Nassau]].

There are two other <ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Pontbriant
  | first = A. de
  | title = Histoire de la principauté d'Orange ; suivie de lettres inédites des princes d'Orange, des rois de France, du Cte de Grignan, etc., etc
  | work = Seguin frères
  | location = Avignon
  | page = 262 & following
  | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f/f41.tableDesMatieres
  | accessdate = 19 May 2011
  | publisher = Bibliothèque nationale de France
  | id = ark:/12148/bpt6k298581f<!--http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb341253894-->
  | language = French}}</ref>
claimants to this title:
* The [[House of Hohenzollern]], who reigned in [[Prussia]] until 1918
* The [[Mailly|House of Mailly-Nesles]]

==Bearers of the title==

===As Counts of Orange===

====[[First House of Orange]]====

{{main article|:fr:Première maison des comtes d'Orange-Nice|l1=Genealogy of the First House of Orange}}

{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Birth
!Became Count(ess) of Orange
!Ceased to be Count(ess)
!Death
!Other titles
!Spouse
|-
|align="center"| 1.
|align="center"| Pons de Mevouillon
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|align="center"|
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|| <small>Blismodis</small>
|-
|align="center"| 2.
|align="center"| Pons II de Mevouillon
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
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|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>Richilde</small>
|-
|align="center"| 3.
|align="center"| Laugier de Nice
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>Odile de Provence</small>
|-
|align="center"| 3.
|align="center"| Rambaud de Nice
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>Accelena d’Apt</small>
|-
|align="center"| 4.
|align="center"| Bertrand-Rambaud d'Orange
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>1. Adélaïde de Cavenez</small><br><small>Gerberge</small>
|-
|align="center"| 5.
|align="center"| [[Raimbaut II, Count of Orange|Raimbaut II]](or [[:fr:Raimbaud II d'Orange |in French]])
|align="center"|
|align="center"|[[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|50px]]<ref>{{Cite web
  | title = Heraldry
  | url = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry
  | accessdate = 28 June 2022
  | quote = Heraldry really didn't exist before around 1150 in any way.  This is the traditional arms for Orange.  It was used by Tiburge.  Raimbaut is probably the first Orange who would have used the arms.}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>?</small>
|-
|align="center"| 6.
|align="center"| [[Tiburge, Countess of Orange|Tiburge d'Orange]]
|align="center"|
|align="center"|[[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|50px]]
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"|
|| <small>1. Giraud Adhémar de Monteil</small><br><small>2. [[William of Aumelas|Guillaume d'Aumelas]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 7.
|align="center"| [[Raimbaut d'Aurenga|Raimbaut III of Orange]]
|align="center"|
|align="center"|[[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|50px]]
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" colspan="2"|
|align="center"| Lord of Aumelas
|| <small>None</small>
|}

===As sovereign prince of Orange===
Until 1340, it was customary for all sons of the prince of Orange to inherit the title.
Only the direct line of descent to Raimond V is shown here.

====[[House of Baux]]====



The [[house of Baux]] succeeded to the principality of Orange when Bertrand of Baux married the heiress of the last native count of Orange, [[Tiburge]], daughter of [[William of Aumelas|William of Orange]], Omelaz, and Montpellier.  Their son was [[William I of Baux]]-Orange. Bertrand was the son of Raymond of Baux and Stephanie of Gevaudan.  Stephanie was the younger daughter of [[Gerberga, Countess of Provence|Gerberga]], the heiress of the counts of Provence.<ref name="Grew 1947"/>  For a genealogical table, see the reference cited:<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Ross
  | first = Kelley L. Ph.D.
  | authorlink = | title = Princes of Orange, 1171–1584 AD
  | url = http://www.friesian.com/lorraine.htm#orange
  | accessdate = 27 April 2011}}</ref>

{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Birth
!Created Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 1.
|align="center"| [[Bertrand I of Baux|Prince Bertrand I]]
|align="center"| [[File:Sceau baux-orange.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the Lords of Baux.svg|50px]]
|align="center"| 1110/1115
|align="center"| 1173<br><small>''After the death of his brother-in-law, [[Raimbaut of Orange|Raimbaut, Count of Orange]], the [[County of Orange]] was elevated to a principality in 1163 by the Holy Roman Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick I]].</small>
|align="center" colspan="2"| April/October 1180
|align="center"| <small>[[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>[[Tibors de Sarenom]]</small>
|-
|}

Bertrand I used as Prince of Orange the coat of arms of the [[House of Baux]]: a 16-pointed white star placed on a field of [[gules]]. Later on, the Princes of Orange quartered the legendary bugle-horn as a heraldic figure into their coat of arms.

====[[House of Baux|House of Baux-Orange]]====


{{main article|House of Baux#Simplified Family Tree of the Lords of Baux|l1=Genealogy of the House of Orange-Baux}}


{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Arms
!Birth
!Became Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 2.
|align="center"| [[William I of Baux|Prince William I]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| 1155
|align="center"| 31 October 1180
|align="center" colspan="2"| bef. 30 July 1218
|align="center"| <small>Co-[[Prince]] (with brothers); [[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>1. Ermengarde of Mévouillon</small><br><small>2. Alix</small>
|-
|align="center"| 3.
|align="center"| [[William II of Baux|Prince William II]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| 31 October 1180
|align="center" colspan="2"| bef. 1 November 1239
|align="center"| <small>Co-[[Prince]] (with brothers); [[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>Précieuse</small>
|-
|align="center"| 4.
|align="center"| [[Raymond I of Baux|Prince Raymond I]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| bef. 30 July 1218
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1282
|align="center"| <small>[[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>Malberjone of Aix</small>
|-
|align="center"| 5.
|align="center"| [[Bertrand IV of Baux|Prince Bertrand II]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| 1282
|align="center" colspan="2"| aft. 21 July 1314
|align="center"| <small>[[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>Eleanore of Geneva</small>
|-
|align="center"| 6.
|align="center"| [[Raymond IV of Baux|Prince Raymond II]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| aft. 21 July 1314
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1340, aft. 9 September
|align="center"| <small>[[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]] and [[Condorcet]]</small>
|| <small>Anne of Viennois</small>
|-
|align="center"| 7.
|align="center"| [[Raymond V of Baux|Prince Raymond III]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| aft. 9 September 1340
|align="center" colspan="2"| 10 February 1393
|align="center"| <small>[[Lords of Baux|Lord of Baux]]</small>
|| <small>1. Constance of Trian</small><br /><small>2. Jeanne of Geneva</small>
|-
|align="center"| 8.
|align="center"| [[Mary of Baux-Orange|Princess Mary]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the House of Baux-Orange.svg|80px|class=noviewer]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| 10 February 1393
|align="center" colspan="2"| October 1417
|align="left"| <small>[[Lady]] of [[Arlay]], [[Cuiseaux]], and [[Vitteaux]]</small>
|| <small>[[John III of Chalon-Arlay|Prince John I]]</small>
|-
|}

====[[House of Chalon-Arlay|House of Châlon-Arlay]] (also House of Ivrea of Anscarid dynasty)====


{{main article|House of Chalon-Arlay#Family tree of House of Chalon-Arlay|l1=Genealogy of the House of Orange-Châlon}}


The [[House of Châlon-Arlay|lords of Chalons and Arlay]] were a cadet branch of the ruling house of the county of Burgundy, the [[Anscarids]] or [[House of Ivrea]].  They married the heiress of Baux-Orange.

{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Birth
!Became Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 9.
|align="center"| [[John III of Chalon-Arlay|Prince John I]]
|align="center"| <small>''none''</small>
|align="center"| [[File:Blason famille fr Chalon Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| 10 February 1393
|align="center"| October 1417
|align="center"| 2 September 1418
|align="left"| <small>[[Lord]] of [[Arlay]], [[Cuiseaux]] and [[Vitteaux]]</small>
|| <small>[[Mary of Baux|Princess Mary]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 10.
|align="center"| [[Louis II of Chalon-Arlay|Prince Louis I]]
|align="center"| <small>''none''</small>
|align="center"| [[File:Blason famille fr Chalon Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| 1390
|align="center"| October 1417
|align="center" colspan="2"| 3 December 1463
|align="left"| <small>[[Lord]] of [[Arlay]], [[Arguel, Doubs|Arguel]], [[Orbe]], and [[Echelens]]</small>
|| <small>1. Jeanne of Montbéliard</small><br><small>2. Eleanor d'Armagnac</small><br><small>3. Blanche of Gamaches</small>
|-
|align="center"| 11.
|align="center"| [[William VII of Chalon|Prince William II]]
|align="center"| <small>''none''</small>
|align="center"| [[File:Blason famille fr Chalon Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| 3 December 1463
|align="center" colspan="2"| 27 September 1475
|align="left"| <small>[[Lord]] of [[Arlay]] and [[Arguel, Doubs|Arguel]]</small>
|| <small>Catherine of Brittany</small>
|-
|align="center"| 12.
|align="center"| [[John IV of Chalon-Arlay|Prince John II]]
|align="center"| <small>''none''</small>
|align="center"| [[File:Blason famille fr Chalon Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| 1443
|align="center"| 27 September 1475
|align="center" colspan="2"| 15 April 1502
|align="left"| <small>[[Count of Tonnerre]]; [[Lord]] of [[Arlay]], [[Arguel, Doubs|Arguel]] and [[Montfaucon, Doubs|Montfaucon]]; [[Admiral]] of [[Guyenne]]</small>
|| <small>1. Jeanne de Bourbon</small><br><small>2. Philiberte of Luxembourg</small>
|-
|align="center"| 13.
|align="center"| [[Philibert of Châlon|Prince Philibert]]
|align="center"| [[File:Philbert Prince of Orange.png|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Blason FR Philibert de Chalon.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| 18 March 1502
|align="center"| 15 April 1502
|align="center" colspan="2"| 3 August 1530
|align="left"| <small>[[Viceroys of Naples|Viceroy of Naples]]; Prince of [[Melfi]]; [[Duke of Gravina]]; [[Count of Tonnerre]], [[Charny (disambiguation)|Charny]], [[Count of Penthièvre|Penthièvre]]; Viscount of [[Besançon]]; [[Lord]] of [[Arlay]], [[Nozeroy]], [[Rougemont]]{{disambiguation needed|date=October 2012}}, [[Orgelet]] and [[Montfaucon, Doubs|Montfaucon]], [[Lieutenant-General]] in the Imperial army.</small>
|| <small>''no wife''</small>
|-
|}

====House of Châlon-Orange====
Rene inherited the principality of Orange from his uncle Philbert on the condition that he bear the name and arms of the house of Châlon-Orange.  Therefore, he is usually counted as one of the Châlon-Orange and history knows him as Rene of Châlon, rather than "of Nassau".<ref name="Grew 1947"/>

{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Birth
!Became Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 14.
|align="center"| [[René of Châlon|Prince René]]
|align="center"| [[File:Rene van Chalon.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Blason René de Nassau-Dillenbourg, Prince de Châlon-Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| 5 February 1519
|align="center"| 3 August 1530
|align="center" colspan="2"| 15 July 1544
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]] and [[Guelders]]; [[Count of Nassau]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of [[Breda]], [[Diest]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Anna of Lorraine]]</small>
|-
|}

====[[House of Orange-Nassau]] (first incarnation)====

{{main article|House of Orange-Nassau#Family tree|l1=Genealogy of the House of Orange-Nassau}}



[[William the Silent|William of Nassau]] inherited the principality of Orange from his cousin René. Although William descended from no previous Prince of Orange, as René had no children or siblings, he exercised his right as sovereign prince to will Orange to his first cousin on his father's side, who actually had no Orange blood. This began the Dutch Royal [[House of Orange-Nassau]].

{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Birth
!Became Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 15.
|align="center"| [[William the Silent|Prince William I]]
|align="center"| [[File:WilliamOfOrange1580.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Willem van Oranje wapen.svg|80px]].:<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/><ref name="Rowen">{{cite book |title=The princes of Orange: the stadholders in the Dutch Republic|first=Herbert H.|last =Rowen|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1988|page=29|isbn=0-8063-4811-9}}</ref><ref name="koninklijkhuis">{{Cite web | title = The Official Website of the Dutch Royal House in English, see tour of Noordeinde Palace, Royal Archives, Front Entrance Hall| url = http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/Palaces/Virtual_tour/Noordeinde_Palace/Royal_Archives/Front_entrance_hall.html| accessdate = 1 June 2011}}</ref>
|align="center"| 24 April 1533
|align="center"| 15 July 1544
|align="center" colspan="2"| 10 July 1584
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]] and [[Friesland]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]], [[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of [[Breda]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Diest]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>1. [[Anna van Egmont]]</small><br><small>2. [[Anna of Saxony]]</small><br><small>3. [[Charlotte de Bourbon]]</small><br><small>4. [[Louise de Coligny]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 16.
|align="center"| [[Philip William, Prince of Orange|Prince Philip William]]
|align="center"| [[File:Workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt 003.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Blason Nassau-Orange.svg|80px]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Armorial général, contenant la description des armoiries des familles nobles et patriciennes de l'Europe: précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason|first=Johannes Baptist|last =Rietstap|publisher=G.B. van Goor|year=1861|page=746|quote=Philip William used his father's original arms}}</ref>
|align="center"| 19 December 1554
|align="center"| 10 July 1584
|align="center" colspan="2"| 20 February 1618
|align="left"| <small>[[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Éléonore de Bourbon]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 17.
|align="center"| [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange|Prince Maurice]]
|align="center"| [[File:Workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt 004.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms Maurice of Nassau prince of Orange.JPG|80px]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Armorial général, contenant la description des armoiries des familles nobles et patriciennes de l'Europe: précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason|first=Johannes Baptist|last =Rietstap|publisher=G.B. van Goor|year=1861|page=746|quote=a la exception de celebre prince Maurice qui portai les armes ...}}</ref><ref name="Haley 1972 78">{{cite book |title=The Dutch in the Seventeenth Century|first=K(enneth) H(arold) D(obson)|last =Haley|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1972|page= 78|isbn=0-15-518473-3}}</ref><ref name="Anonymous">{{Cite web | last = Anonymous | title = Wapenbord van Prins Maurits met het devies van de Engelse orde van de Kouseband | work = Exhibit of a painted woodcut of Maurice's Arms encircled by the Order of the Garter in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | publisher = Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | url = http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=NG-NM-10152&lang=en | accessdate = 26 April 2011}}</ref>
|align="center"| 14 November 1567
|align="center"| 20 February 1618
|align="center" colspan="2"| 23 April 1625
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]], [[Guelders]], [[Overijssel]] and [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Bentheim-Lingen]], [[Moers]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>''no wife''</small>
|-
|align="center"| 18.
|align="center"| [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Prince Frederick Henry]]
|align="center"| [[File:After Gerard van Honthorst 002.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Willem van Oranje wapen.svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/>
|align="center"| 29 January 1584
|align="center"| 23 April 1625
|align="center" colspan="2"| 14 March 1647
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]], [[Guelders]], and [[Overijssel]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Bentheim-Lingen]], [[Moers]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Amalia of Solms-Braunfels]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 19.
|align="center"| [[William II, Prince of Orange|Prince William II]]
|align="center"| [[File:After Gerard van Honthorst 003.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Willem van Oranje wapen.svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/>
|align="center"| 27 May 1626
|align="center"| 14 March 1647
|align="center" colspan="2"| 6 November 1650
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]], [[Guelders]] and [[Overijssel]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Bentheim-Lingen]], [[Moers]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Mary, Princess Royal]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 20.
|align="center"| [[William III of England|William III]]
|align="center"| [[File:King William III.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Willem van Oranje wapen.svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/>
|align="center"| 14 November 1650
|align="center"| 14 November 1650
|align="center" colspan="2"| 8 March 1702
|align="left"| <small>[[King of England]], [[King of Scotland|Scotland]], and [[King of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]], [[Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]], [[Guelders]], and [[Overijssel]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Bentheim-Lingen]], [[Moers]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; [[Lord]] of [[Baarn]], [[Bredevoort]], [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Het Loo|'t Loo]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Soest, Netherlands|Soest]], [[Ter Eem]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Mary II of England|Queen Mary II of England]]</small>
|-
|}

===Title without territory===

====House of Orange-Nassau (second incarnation)====
The 2nd house of Orange-Nassau (see [[House of Orange-Nassau#Family Tree|House of Orange-Nassau family tree]] were cousins on their father and mother's side of the 1st house.

=====Head of house=====
{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Heir of
!Birth
!Became Prince of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince of Orange
![[Princess of Orange|Princess<br />of<br />Orange]]
|-
|align="center"| 21.
|align="center"| [[John William Friso, Prince of Orange|Prince John William Friso]]
|align="center"| [[File:JohanWillemFriso.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of Johan Willem Friso as Prince of Orange.JPG|80px]]<ref>{{Cite web|title = "Coat of Arms as depicted on the "Familiegraf van de Oranje-Nassau's in de Grote of Jacobijnerkerk te Leeuwarden"| work = Familiegraf van de Oranje-Nassau's in de Grote of Jacobijnerkerk te Leeuwarden| url = http://www.hethuisvanoranje.nl/14%20Familiegraven/IndexOranjegraven.html| accessdate = 9 November 2011}}</ref>
|align="center"| [[William III of England|William III]]
|align="center"| 4 August 1687
|align="center"| 8 March 1702
|align="center" colspan="2"| 14 July 1711
|align="left"| <small>[[Stadtholder]] of [[Friesland]] and [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]]; [[Nassau (state)|Fürst of Nassau-Dietz]] → [[Principality of Orange-Nassau|Fürst of Orange-Nassau]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Count]] of [[Buren]], [[Leerdam]], [[County of Katzenelnbogen|Katzenelnbogen]], [[Spiegelberg]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Beilstein, Hessen|Beilstein]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; Hereditary Lord of [[Ameland]]; [[Lord]] of [[Baarn]], [[Bredevoort]], [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Liesveld (hamlet)|Liesveld]], [[Het Loo|'t Loo]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Soest, Netherlands|Soest]], [[Ter Eem]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 22.
|align="center"| [[William IV, Prince of Orange|Prince William IV]]
|align="center"| [[File:Guillaume IV d'Orange-Nassau.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Blason Nassau-Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[John William Friso, Prince of Orange|Prince John William Friso]]
|align="center" colspan="2"| 1 September 1711
|align="center" colspan="2"| 22 October 1751
|align="left"| <small>[[List of stadtholders for the Low Countries provinces#.28General.29 Hereditary Stadtholders of the United Provinces|General Stadtholder of the United Provinces]];  [[Principality of Orange-Nassau|Fürst of Orange-Nassau]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Count]] of [[Buren]], [[Culemborg]], [[Leerdam]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; Hereditary Lord of [[Ameland]]; [[Lord]] of [[Baarn]], [[Bredevoort]], [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Liesveld (hamlet)|Liesveld]], [[Het Loo|'t Loo]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Soest, Netherlands|Soest]], [[Ter Eem]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Anne, Princess Royal]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 23.
|align="center"| [[William V, Prince of Orange|Prince William V]]
|align="center"| [[File:WillemV.png|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Blason Nassau-Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[William IV, Prince of Orange|Prince William IV]]
|align="center"| 8 March 1748
|align="center"| 22 October 1751
|align="center" colspan="2"| 9 April 1806
|align="left"| <small>[[List of stadtholders for the Low Countries provinces#.28General.29 Hereditary Stadtholders of the United Provinces|General Stadtholder of the United Provinces]]; [[Principality of Orange-Nassau|Fürst of Orange-Nassau]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Count]] of [[Buren]], [[Culemborg]], [[Leerdam]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; Hereditary Lord of [[Ameland]]; [[Lord]] of [[Baarn]], [[Bredevoort]], [[Borculo]], [[Dasburg]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Lichtenvoorde]], [[Liesveld (hamlet)|Liesveld]], [[Het Loo|'t Loo]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Soest, Netherlands|Soest]], [[Ter Eem]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange|Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 24.
|align="center"| Prince William VI<br />''later'' '''[[William I of the Netherlands|William I]]'''
|align="center"| [[File:Willemi.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of Sovereign Prince William I of Orange.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[William V, Prince of Orange|Prince William V]]
|align="center"| 24 August 1772
|align="center"| 9 April 1806
|align="center"| 16 March 1815<br />''title dropped when invested as first King of the Netherlands''
|align="center"| 7 October 1840
|align="left"| <small>[[Principality of Orange-Nassau|Fürst of Orange-Nassau]]; [[Marquis]] of [[Veere]] and [[Vlissingen]]; [[Count]] of [[Buren]], [[Culemborg]], [[Leerdam]], and [[Vianden]]; [[Viscount]] of [[Antwerp]]; [[Baron]] of Aggeris, [[Breda]], [[Cranendonck]], [[Cuijk|Lands of Cuijk]], Daesburg, [[Eindhoven]], [[Grave, Netherlands|City of Grave]], [[Lek (river)|Lek]], [[IJsselstein]], [[Diest]], [[Grimbergen]], [[Herstal]], [[Warneton, Belgium|Warneton]], [[Arlay]], and [[Nozeroy]]; Hereditary Lord of [[Ameland]]; [[Lord]] of [[Baarn]], [[Bredevoort]], [[Borculo]], [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe]], [[Klundert]], [[Lichtenvoorde]], [[Liesveld (hamlet)|Liesveld]], [[Het Loo|'t Loo]], [[Montigny-Montfort|Montfort]], [[Naaldwijk]], [[Klundert|Niervaart]], [[Houtrijk en Polanen|Polanen]], [[Steenbergen]], [[Sint-Maartensdijk]], [[Soest, Netherlands|Soest]], [[Ter Eem]], [[Turnhout]], [[Willemstad (North Brabant)|Willemstad]], [[Zevenbergen]], [[Bütgenbach]], [[St. Vith|Sankt Vith]], and [[Besançon]].</small>
|| <small>[[Wilhelmine of Prussia (1774-1837)|Wilhelmine of Prussia]]</small>
|-
|}

=====Netherlands heir apparent=====
{| width=100% class="wikitable"
!No
!Name
!Picture
!Arms
!Heir of
!Birth
!Became Heir to the [[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Crown]]
!Created Prince(ss) of Orange
!Ceased to be Prince(ss) of Orange
!Death
!Other titles while Prince(ss) of Orange
!Spouse
|-
|align="center"| 25.
|align="center"| Prince William<br />''later'' '''[[William II of the Netherlands|William II]]'''
|align="center"| [[File:YoungwilliamII.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1875 347–348">{{cite book |title=Handboek der Wapenkunde|first=Johannes Baptist|last=Rietstap|publisher=Theod. Bom|location=Netherlands|year=1875|pages=347–348|quote="De PRINS VAN ORANJE Gevierendeeld: 1 en 4 het koninklijke wapen; 2 en 3 nogmaals gevierendeeld van rood met een gouden schuinbalk, en van goud met een blaauwen, rood-gesnoerden en beslagen jagthoorn, benevens een hartschildje op het snijpunt, beladen met vijf gouden vakken grenzende aan vier blaauewe. Overigens geheel als het koninklijke wapen." }}</ref><ref name="Junius 1894 151">{{cite book |title=Heraldiek|first=J.H.|last=Junius|publisher=Frederik Muller|location=Netherlands|year=1894|page=151|quote="In Nederland voert de PRINS VAN ORANJE het koninklijk wapen gekwartileerd met dat van ORANJE-CHALONS." }}</ref>
|align="center"| [[William I of the Netherlands|William I]]
|align="center"| 6 December 1792
|align="center" colspan="2"| 16 March 1815<br />''[[William I of the Netherlands|father]]'s accession as King''
|align="center"| 7 October 1840<br />''became King''
|align="center"| 17 March 1849
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Prince of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Prince of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|| <small>[[Anna Pavlovna of Russia|Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 26.
|align="center"| Prince William<br />''later'' '''[[William III of the Netherlands|William III]]'''
|align="center"| [[File:William III.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1875 347–348"/><ref name="Junius 1894 151"/>
|align="center"| [[William II of the Netherlands|William II]]
|align="center"| 19 February 1817
|align="center" colspan="2"| 7 October 1840<br />''[[William II of the Netherlands|father]]'s accession as King''
|align="center"| 17 March 1849<br />''became King''
|align="center"| 23 November 1890
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Prince of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Prince of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|| <small>[[Sophie of Württemberg|Princess Sophie of Württemberg]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 27.
|align="center"| [[William, Prince of Orange|Prince William]]
|align="center"| [[File:Dutch Crown Prince Willem.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1875 347–348"/><ref name="Junius 1894 151"/>
|align="center" rowspan="2"| [[William III of the Netherlands|William III]]
|align="center"| 4 September 1840
|align="center" colspan="2"| 17 March 1849<br />''[[William III of the Netherlands|father]]'s accession as King''
|align="center" colspan="2"| 11 June 1879
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Prince of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Prince of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|| <small>''none''</small>
|-
|align="center"| 28.
|align="center"| [[Alexander, Prince of Orange|Prince Alexander]]
|align="center"| [[File:Alexander der Nederlanden 1851 - 1884.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|80px]]<ref name="Rietstap 1875 347–348"/><ref name="Junius 1894 151"/>
|align="center"| 25 August 1851
|align="center" colspan="2"| 11 June 1879 <br />''[[William, Prince of Orange|brother]]'s death''
|align="center" colspan="2"| 21 June 1884
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Prince of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Prince of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|| <small>''none''</small>
|-
|align="center"| 29.
|align="center"| Prince Willem-Alexander ''later'' '''[[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]]'''<br /><ref>[http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/Who_s_who/The_Prince_of_Orange.html Website Dutch Royal House on Willem-Alexander]</ref>
|align="center"| [[File:Guilherme Alexandre, príncipe de Orange.jpg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the children of Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg|80px]]
|align="center"| [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]]
|align="center"| 27 April 1967
|align="center" colspan="2"| 30 April 1980 <br />''[[Beatrix of the Netherlands|mother]]'s accession as Queen regnant''
|align="center"| 30 April 2013<br />''became King''
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Prince of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Prince of Orange-Nassau]], [[House of Amsberg|Jonkheer van Amsberg]]</small>
|| <small>[[Princess Máxima of the Netherlands]]</small>
|-
|align="center"| 30.
|align="center"| [[Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange|Princess Catharina-Amalia]]<br /><ref>[http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/encyclopedie/wie-is-wie/prinses-catharina-amalia/ Website Dutch Royal House on Catharina-Amalia]</ref>
|align="center"| [[File:Wassenaar, najaar 2014, de Prinses van Oranje.jpg|80px]] 
|align="center"| [[File:Arms of the children of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.svg|80px]] 
|align="center"| [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]]
|align="center"| 7 December 2003
|align="center" colspan="2"| 30 April 2013 <br />''[[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|father]]'s accession as King''
|align="center"| ''Incumbent''
|align="center"| –
|align="center"| <small>[[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Princess of the Netherlands]], [[House of Orange-Nassau|Princess of Orange-Nassau]]</small>
|align="center"| – 
|-
|}

====House of Hohenzollern====
* [[Frederick I of Prussia]] (1702–1713), a senior descendant in female line from William the Silent, who ceded his claims to the lands of Orange to France in 1713, and his descendants, but kept his right to use the title in its German form:  currently [[Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia]], "Prinz von Oranien" (1976–)

====House of Mailly====
* '''Louis de Mailly, Marquis de Nesle et de Mailly''', appointed by the French king, and his descendants, descended through another line of the house of [[House of Châlon-Arlay|Chalons-Arlay]], currently Guy, Marquis de Nesle et de Mailly, Prince d'Orange.

====House of Bourbon====
* [[Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti]], appointed by the French king, and his descendants, the [[Prince of Conti|Princes of Conti]] becoming extinct in 1815.

==Princes of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau==

===Historical background===
[[William the Silent]] (Willem I) was the first [[stadtholder]] of the [[Dutch Republic]] and the most significant representative of the House of Orange in the Netherlands. He was [[count]] of a portion of the  German territory of [[Nassau (duchy)|Nassau]] and heir to some of his father's fiefs in Holland. William obtained more extensive lands in the Netherlands (the lordship of Breda and several other dependencies) as an inheritance from his cousin [[René of Châlon]], Prince of Orange, when William was only 11 years old. After William's [[assassination]] in 1584, the title passed to his son [[Philip William, Prince of Orange|Philip William]] (who had been held hostage in Spain until 1596), and after his death in 1618, to his second son [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange|Maurice]], and finally to his youngest son, [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Frederick Henry]].

The title of Prince of Orange became associated with the stadtholder of the Netherlands.

[[William III of England|William III]] (Willem III) was also King of [[Kingdom of England|England]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], and his legacy is commemorated annually by the Protestant [[Orange Institution|Orange Order]].

[[William and Mary]] had no legitimate children. After his death in 1702, his heir in the Netherlands was [[John William Friso, Prince of Orange|John William Friso of Nassau-Diez]], who assumed the title, King William having bequeathed it to him by testament. The other contender was the [[King in Prussia]], who based his claim to the title on the will of Frederick Henry, William III's grandfather. Eventually, a compromise was reached by which both families were entitled to bear the title of Prince of Orange. By then, it was no more than a title because the principality had been annexed by [[Louis XIV of France]].

Friso's line held it as their principal title during the 18th century. The French army expelled them from the Netherlands in 1795, but on their return, the Prince of Orange became the first sovereign of the Netherlands in 1813.

After the establishment of the current Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, the title was partly reconstitutionalized by legislation and granted to the eldest son of King William I of the Netherlands, Prince William, who later became William II of the Netherlands. Since 1983, the heir to the Dutch throne, whether male or female, bears the title Prince or Princess of Orange.<ref>{{cite web
 | title = De Prins van Oranje 
 | publisher = Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (RVD)
 | date = 23 August 2012
 | url = //www.koninklijkhuis.nl/encyclopedie/wie-is-wie/de-prins-van-oranje/
 | accessdate = 23 August 2012
 |quote = "Sinds de inhuldiging van de Koningin op 30 april 1980 heeft Prins Willem-Alexander de titel Prins van Oranje. Deze titel is voorbehouden aan de troonopvolger van de Koning(in)." In english: "Since the inauguration of the Queen on 30 April 1980, Prince Willem-Alexander the title of Prince of Orange. This title is reserved to the heir to the throne of the King (Queen)."}}
</ref>  The first-born child of the heir to the Dutch throne bears the title Hereditary Prince(ss) of Orange.<ref>
{{cite web
 | title = Prinses Catharina-Amalia
 | publisher = Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (RVD)
 | date = 23 August 2012
 | url = http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/encyclopedie/wie-is-wie/prinses-catharina-amalia/
 | accessdate = 23 August 2012
 |quote = "Prinses Catharina-Amalia is de tweede in de lijn van troonopvolging. Als haar vader Koning wordt, krijgt zij als vermoedelijke troonopvolger de titel 'Prinses van Oranje'." In English: "Princess Catharina-Amalia is the second in line of succession to the throne. When her father is King, she becomes, as [[heir apparent]], 'Princess of Orange'."}}</ref> When her father [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]] became King of the Netherlands following the abdication of [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Queen Beatrix]], [[Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands|Princess Catharina-Amalia]] became the Princess of Orange.

===Style===

The Prince(ss) of Orange is [[Style - Manner of Address|styled]] ''His/Her Royal Highness the Prince(ss) of Orange'' (Dutch: ''Zijne/Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid de Prins(es) van Oranje'').

During the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries, the Prince(ss) of Orange was [[Style - Manner of Address|styled]] ''His/Her Highness the Prince(ss) of Orange'' (Dutch: ''Zijne/Hare  Hoogheid de Prins(es) van Oranje''), except for William III, who rated the "Royal/Koninklijke".

===Arms===
The princes of Orange in the 16th and 17th century used the following sets of arms.  On becoming Prince of Orange, William placed the Châlon-Arlay arms in the center ("as an inescutcheon") of his father's arms.  He used these arms until 1582 when he purchased the [[marquisate of Veere]] and Vlissingen.  He then used the arms attributed to Frederick Henry, etc. with the arms of the marquisate in the top center, and the arms of the county of Buren in the bottom center.<ref name="Rowen"/> Their growing complexity shows how arms are used to reflect the growing political position and royal aspirations of the [[house of Orange-Nassau]].

<gallery class="center">
File:Blason René de Nassau-Dillenbourg, Prince de Châlon-Orange.svg|Coat of arms of [[René of Châlon]] as Prince of Orange.<ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/>

File:Blason Nassau-Orange.svg|Coat of arms of [[William the Silent]] as Prince of Orange until 1582 and his eldest son [[Philip William, Prince of Orange|Philip William]]<ref name="Rietstap 2003 297">{{cite book |title=Armorial general|first=Johannes Baptist|last =Rietstap|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co.|year=2003|volume= vol.2|page=297|isbn=0-8063-4811-9}}</ref>

File:Maurits Nassau wapen klein.svg|The coat of arms used by [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange|Maurice]] showing the county of Moers (top left center and bottom right center) and his mother's arms of Saxony (center) <ref name="Rietstap 1861 746"/><ref name="Haley 1972 78"/><ref name="Anonymous"/>

File:Blason Nassau-Orange (Cadets).svg|The coat of arms used by [[William the Silent]] after 1582, [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Frederick Henry]], [[William II, Prince of Orange|William II]], and [[William III of England|William III]] as Prince of Orange<ref name="Rietstap 2003 297"/>

File:Blason Nassau-Orange (Cadets) Alternate.PNG|An alternate coat of arms sometimes used by [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Frederick Henry]], [[William II, Prince of Orange|William II]], and [[William III of England|William III]] as Prince of Orange showing the county of Moers in the top center rather than Veere.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Post| first = Pieter| title = Coat of Arms as depicted in "Begraeffenisse van syne hoogheyt Frederick Hendrick"| work = engraving, in the collection of| publisher = Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | year = 1651| url = http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=NG-793-53| accessdate = 1 June 2011}}</ref>
</gallery>

When [[William I of the Netherlands|William VI of Orange]] returned to the Netherlands in 1813 and was proclaimed Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands, he quartered the former [[Dutch Republic Lion|Arms of the Dutch Republic]] (1st and 4th quarter) with the "Châlon-Orange" arms (2nd and 3rd quarter), which had come to symbolize Orange. As an in escutcheon he placed his ancestral arms of Nassau. When he became King in 1815, he combined the [[Dutch Republic Lion]] with the billets of the Nassau arms and added a royal crown to form the [[Coat of arms of the Netherlands]]. In the 19th century, the Dutch Crown prince, who holds the title "Prince of Orange" ("Prins van Oranje"), and his son, who holds the title "Hereditary Prince of Orange" ("Erfprins van Oranje") had their own pre-defined arms.  The House of Orange, now the Royal House of the Netherlands, and their descendants the House of Orange-Nassau, kept this title for their family.  Wilhelmina further decreed that in perpetuity her descendants should be styled "princes and princesses of Orange-Nassau" and that the name of the house would be "Orange-Nassau" (in Dutch "Oranje-Nassau").  Since then, individual members of the House of Orange-Nassau are also given their own arms by the reigning monarch, similar to the United Kingdom. This is usually the royal arms, quartered with the arms of the principality of Orange, and an in escutcheon of their paternal arms.<ref>{{cite web | title = Wapens van leden van het Koninklijk Huis| work = Coats of Arms of the Dutch Royal Family, Website of the Dutch Monarchy, the Hague | publisher = Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (RVD), the Hague, the Netherlands | url = http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/encyclopedie/monarchie/wapens/wapens-van-leden-van-het-koninklijk-huis/| accessdate = 30 April 2012}}</ref>

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File:Arms of Sovereign Prince William I of Orange.svg|Arms of William VI as sovereign prince of the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite book |title=Armorial general|first=Johannes Baptist|last =Rietstap|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co.|year=2003|volume= vol.2|page=297|isbn=0-8063-4811-9|quote=Ecartelé : au 1. d'azur, semé de billettes d'or au lion d'or, armé et lampassé de gueules, brochant sur le tout  (Maison de Nassau) ; II, d'or, au léopard lionné de gueules, arméc ouronné et lampassé d'azur (Katzenelnbogen) ; III, de gueules à la fasce d'argent (Vianden) ; IV, de gueules à deux lions passant l'un sur l'autre ; sur-le-tout écartelé, aux I et IV de gueules, à la bande d'or (Châlon), et aux II et III d'or, au cor de chasse d'azur, virolé et lié de gueules (Orange) ; sur-le-tout-du-tout de cinq points d'or équipolés à quatre d'azur (Genève) ; un écusson de sable à la fasce d'argent brochant en chef (Marquis de Flessingue et Veere); un écusson de gueules à la fasce bretessée et contre-bretessée d'argent brochant en pointe (Buren)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGwv4BDnlaQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Johannes+Baptist+Rietstap%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=34xkVcq2B8eWNufogYgL&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=orange&f=false|accessdate = 26 May 2015}}</ref>
File:Arms of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|Arms of the Dutch Crown prince, the prince of Orange in the 19th Century.<ref>{{cite book |title=Handboek der Wapenkunde|first=Johannes Baptist|last=Rietstap|publisher=Theod. Bom|location=the Netherlands|year=1875|pages=347–348|quote="De PRINS VAN ORANJE Gevierendeeld: 1 en 4 het koninklijke wapen; 2 en 3 nogmaals gevierendeeld van rood met een gouden schuinbalk, en van goud met een blaauwen, rood-gesnoerden en beslagen jagthoorn, benevens een hartschildje op het snijpunt, beladen met vijf gouden vakken grenzende aan vier blaauewe. Overigens geheel als het koninklijke wapen." }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Heraldiek|first=J.H.|last=Junius|publisher=Frederik Muller|location=the Netherlands|year=1894|page=151|quote="In Nederland voert de PRINS VAN ORANJE het koninklijk wapen gekwartileerd met dat van ORANJE-CHALONS." }}</ref>
File:Arms of the eldest son of the Prince of Orange (1815-1884).svg|Arms of the son of the Dutch Crown Prince in the 19th Century, who also held the title of Hereditary Prince of Orange.<ref>{{cite book |title=Handboek der Wapenkunde|first=Johannes Baptist|last=Rietstap|publisher=Theod. Bom|location=the Netherlands|year=1875|page=348|quote="De ERFPRINS VAN ORANJE, casu quo: Gelijk de Prins van Oranje, met een rooden barensteel over de beide eerste kwartieren heen."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Heraldiek|first=J.H.|last=Junius|publisher=Frederik Muller|location=the Netherlands|year=1894|page=151|quote="...behalve de erfprins die 's vaders wapen met een barensteel breekt. Bij ons vorstenhuis is die barenstell altijk van keel."}}</ref>
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File:Arms of Juliana of the Netherlands.svg|Juliana of the Netherlands & Oranje-Nassau Personal Arms
File:Arms of Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg|Beatrix of the Netherlands & Oranje-Nassau Personal Arms
File:Arms of the children of Beatrix of the Netherlands.svg|William Alexander of the Netherlands and Oranje-Nassau Personal Arms
File:Arms of the children of Margriet of the Netherlands.svg|Sons of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Pieter van Vollenhoven <ref>{{Cite web | last = Klaas | title = Maurits van Vollenhoven | work = Article on Maurits van Vollenhoven, 18-09-2008 10:28| publisher = klaas.punt.nl| url = http://klaas.punt.nl/content/2008/09/maurits-van-vollenhoven| accessdate = 4 April 2013}}</ref>
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As a former territory of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes of Orange used an [[Fürst|independent prince's]] crown. Sometimes, only the coronet part was used ([[:File:Arolsen Klebeband 01 343.jpg|see]], [[:File:Anselmus-van-Hulle-Hommes-illustres MG 0442.tif|here]] and [[:File:Funeral procession of Frederik Hendrik prince of Orange.jpg|here]]). After the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, they used the Dutch Royal Crowns:

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File:Princely Hat.svg|Princely Hat
File:Princely crown.svg|Princely Crown
File:Royal Crown of the Netherlands (Heraldic).svg|Crown for a Prince or Princess of the Netherlands
File:Coronet of a Grandchild of the Dutch Monarch (Heraldic).svg|Crown of a Prince or Princess of Orange-Nassau (Heraldic)
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==The Counts of Orange of the First House of Orange==
The first house of Orange is somewhat of a conjecture given the fragmentary nature of documentation in the early medieval era.  The French Wikipedia page for the [[:fr:Première maison des comtes d’Orange-Nice|first House of Orange]] has presented what is known with references.  Their chart is reproduced here.

'''Descendants of Pons de Mevouillon''' (the arms of the counts d'Orange is a reference point.  Arms did not exist until the late 12th century. ''':'''

 [[:fr:Pons de Mevouillon|Pons de Mevouillon]] [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
  x Blismodis
  |
  | --> Humbert [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Vaison|évêque de Vaison]], jusqu’en 1005 [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
  |
  | --> Garnier, [[:fr:Liste des évêques et archevêques d'Avignon|évêque d’Avignon]] (976–991) [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
  |
  | --> Ison
  |
  | --> [[:fr:Pons II de Mevouillon|Pons II de Mevouillon]] (ca 920–986) [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
        x Richilde, originaire de l’[[:fr:Communauté de communes de l'Uzège|Uzège]]
        |
        | --> [[:fr:Féraud de Nice|Féraud de Nice]]  [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Gap|évêque de Gap]] [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
        |
        | --> [[:fr:Féraud de Nice|Pierre de Mirabel]]  [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Vaison|évêque de Vaison]] [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
        |
        | --> [[:fr:Pons III de Mevouillon|Pons III de Mevouillon]]
        |      |    ... --> '''Descendance Mevouillon... '''
        |
        | --> Arnoul de Theys
        |      |    ... --> '''Descendance Theys... '''
        |
        | --> Gérard
        |
        | --> Rambaud
        |
        | --> Raoul
        |
        | --> [[:fr:Laugier de Nice|Laugier de Nice]] (ca 1050-1032) [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
              x  [[:fr:Odile de Provence|Odile de Provence]] (976–1032), fille de [[:fr:Guillaume Ier de Provence|Guillaume Ier de Provence]]
              |
              | --> [[:fr:Rostan de Gréolières|Rostan de Gréolières]]
              |      |    ... --> '''Descendance Gréolières... '''
              |
              | --> [[:fr:Pierre de Nice|Pierre de Nice]], [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Sisteron|évêque de Sisteron]] (1043–1059) [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
              |
              | --> Jauccara de Nice
              |      x  [[:fr:Amic de Vence-Avignon|Amic de Vence-Avignon]]
              |
              | --> Gerberge de Nice
              |       x  [[:fr:Bérenger d’Avignon:Bérenger d’Avignon]].
              |
              | --> [[:fr:Rambaud de Nice|Rambaud de Nice]] (1006–1073) [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
                     x 1032 [[:fr:Accelena d’Apt|Accelena d’Apt]]
                     |
                     | --> [[:fr:Laugier d’Apt|Laugier d’Apt]]
                           x Amancia de Lacoste-Castellane
                     |
                     | --> Odila de Nice
                          x Boniface de Reillanne
                     |
                     | --> [[:fr:Gisla de Nice|Gisla de Nice]]
                           x [[:fr:Rostang d'Agoult|Rostang d'Agoult]] [[Image:Blason ville fr Sault (Vaucluse).svg|30px]]
                           |
                           | -->  [[:fr:Laugier d'Agout|Laugier d'Agout]], [[:fr:Liste des évêques d'Apt|évêque d'Apt]], croisé [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
                     |
                     | --> [[:fr:Pierre II de Nice|Pierre II de Nice]] [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Sisteron|évêque de Sisteron]], puis  [[:fr:Liste des évêques de Vaison|évêque de Vaison]] [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
                     |
                     | --> Rostan de Fréjus
                           x Accelena de Marignane
                     |
                     | --> Rambaud de Nice, seigneur de [[:fr:Gréolières|Gréolières]] (+ jeune)
                     |
                     x  [[:fr:Bélieldis de Marseille|Bélieldis de Marseille]]
                     |
                     | --> Amic
                     |
                     | --> Guillaume
                     |
                     x avant 1045 [[Azalaïs de Reillanne]], veuve de [[Guilhem d'Agoult]] [[File:Blason reillanne.jpg|30px]]
                     |
                     | --> [[:fr:Bertrand-Rambaud d’Orange|Bertrand-Rambaud d’Orange]] [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
                           x 1068 Adélaïde de Cavenez, veuve de [[:fr:Guillaume V Bertrand de Provence|Guillaume V Bertrand de Provence]] [[File:Meuble héraldique Croix clêchée vidée pommetée.svg|Insigne des Bosonides|30px]]
                           |
                           | --> Léger ou Laugerus, [[:fr:Liste des évêques et archevêques d'Avignon|évêque d’Avignon]](1124 ou 1126–1142) [[File:BishopCoA PioM.svg|30px]]
                           |
                           | --> Jausserand Laugier, seigneur de [[:fr:Gréolières|Gréolières]]
                           |
                           x 1064 Gerberge, fille de [[:fr:Foulques Bertrand de Provence|Foulques Bertrand de Provence]] [[File:Meuble héraldique Croix clêchée vidée pommetée.svg|Insigne des Bosonides|30px]]
                           |
                           | --> Pierre
                           |
                           | --> [[:fr:Rambaud II d'Orange|Rambaud II d'Orange, the crusader]] or [[Raimbaut II, Count of Orange|English Wiki]][[File:Rambaud II d'Orange.jpg|30px]]
                                 |
                                 | --> [[:fr:Thiburge d'Orange|Thiburge d'Orange]] [[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
                                      x 1104 [[:fr:Giraud Adhémar de Monteil|Giraud Adhémar de Monteil]] [[File:Blason famille fr d'Adhémar.svg|30px]]
                                      |
                                      x 1129 [[:fr:Guillaume d'Aumelas|Guillaume d'Aumelas]] [[Image:Blason seigneurs de Montpellier.svg|30px]]
                                      |
                                      | --> [[:fr:Raimbaut d'Orange|Raimbaut d'Orange, the famous troubadour.]] or [[Raimbaut of Orange|English Wiki]][[File:Rambautz d'Aurenga.jpg|30px]]
                                      |
                                      | --> [[:fr:Thiburge II d'Orange|Thiburge II d'Orange]][[File:Blason Raymond IV des Baux.svg|30px]]
                                      |   x 1171 [[:fr:Bertrand des Baux|Bertrand des Baux]] [[Image:Blason Baux de Provence.svg|30px]]
                                          |
                                          | --> Hughes IV
                                          |
                                          | --> Bertrand II
                                          |
                                          | --> Thiburge
                                          |
                                          | --> [[:fr:Guillaume Ier des Baux|Guillaume des Baux]] or [[William I of Baux|English Wiki]] 
                                               x Ermengarde de Mévouillon
                                               |
                                               | --> [[:fr:Guillaume II des Baux|Guillaume II des Baux]] or [[William II of Baux|English Wiki]]


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;Branche de Vence
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==See also==
{{Portal|Kingdom of France}}
*[[List of heirs to the Dutch throne]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Literature==
* [[Herbert H. Rowen]], ''The princes of Orange: the stadholders in the Dutch Republic''. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
* [[John Lothrop Motley]], "History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort".  London:  John Murray, 1860.
* [[John Lothrop Motley]], "The Life and Death of John of Barenvelt". New York & London:  Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1900.
* [[Petrus Johannes Blok]], "History of the people of the Netherlands". New York:  G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898.
* Reina van Ditzhuyzen, ''Het Huis van Oranje: prinsen, stadhouders, koningen en koninginnen''. Haarlem : De Haan, [1979].

== External links ==
* [http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-96031&I=128&M=tdm Treaty ceding the Principality to Louis XIV]
* [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/berlin1732.htm Treaty of Partition (1732)]