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6. George, Count Nassau Dillenburg 1623. 



7. Louis Gunther 1604. 



8. Ernst Casimir 1558-1632. 



Children of Ernst Casimir (no distinguished maternal ancestors) : 



9. Henry Casimir of Nassau Dietz 1640. 



10. William Frederic, Count of Nassau Dietz 1664. 



Children of William Frederick (had Henry Frederick (8) as grandparent 

 and William The Silent (10) as great-grandparent) : 



11. Henry Casimir, Prince of Nassau Dietz 1657-1696. 



12. Amelia. 



Children of Henry Casimir (had Henry Frederick (8) as a great-grand- 

 parent) : 



13. John William Frizp 1687-1711. 



14. Sophia Hedwig. 



15. Isabella Charlotte. 



Children of John William Frizp (had three distinguished great-grand- 

 parents, Henry Frederick (8) twice and Amelia of Hesse (9) : 



16. William, Prince of Nassau Dietz 1711-1757. 



17. Anne Charlotte = Baden Durlach. 



Children of William IV (had Caroline, Queen of England (8) as grand- 

 mother) : 



18. William V., Prince of Nassau 1748-1806. 



19. Wilhelmina Carolina = Nassau-Wielburg. 



Children of William V. (had Frederick the Great as grejkt-uncle) : 



20. William I., King of the Netherlands. 



21. William George Frederick 1774-1799. 



22. Frederica Louisa = Brunswick. 



Children of William I. : 



23. William II., King of the Netherlands. 



24. Frederick William Charles, Prince of the Netherlands 1792-1881. 



Children of William II. (had Catherine II. as great-grandmother) : 



25. William III., King of the Netherlands. 



26. Henry Prince of the Netherlands 1820. 



27. Sophia = Saxe-Weimar. 



Among the twenty-seven only three deserve the adjective brilliant. 

 These are William I., king of the Netherlands, 'a captain, a hero, a 

 legislator and a great man,'* and his younger brother, William George 

 Frederick, who lived to be only twenty-five, but won considerable dis- 

 tinction and appears in the 'Biographie Universelle, ' 'a rare model 

 of all talents, virtues and precious qualities. ' The third is the second 

 son of William I., Frederick William Charles, who 'took a prominent 

 part in the war of the Belgian revolution in 1830. 'f These came 

 together, and we suppose their talents came from the high wave about 

 Frederick the Great. 



Reviewing the list: 



In the first two generations we get what we might well expect, 

 since John Sr. of Orange, a brother of William the Silent, was, 

 although an able man, in no way a genius. 



In the third generation, we might not be surprised to see it re- 

 appearing, and heredity would demand it in a large number of chil- 

 dren, but as there are only two, these may have taken after their 

 parents who were obscure. 



* Alphonce Rablee in ' Biographie des Contemporaires.' 

 f Lippincott's. 



