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1814 MEDELLET
SPRINKLE MEDAL
COMMEMORATIVE of INAUGURATION of WILLEM I

Obv. WILLEM D.G.G. PRINS VAN ORANJE NASSAU *
Rev. SOUVEREIN VORST DER VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN * /GEHULDIGD / TE / AMSTERDAM / MDCCCXIV.

Bronze composition
23mm
by medalist Hendrix Lageman(1765-1816)
struck in Utrecht at, the then newly renamed, 's Rijks Munt (mint)

This is a 'sprinkle medal' for the 1814 Inauguration of Prince William of Orange as Sovereign Prince in Amsterdam, after the establishment of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. These were sprinkled or scattered to the people in the crowd.

Forrer's Vol III p268-7 Lageman Hendrix

1814 Inauguration of Prince William of Orange as Sovereign Prince (2 var.)


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Willem Frederik Prince of Orange-Nassau ( The Hague , 24 August 1772 - Berlin , 12 December 1843 ), was the first King of the Netherlands from the house Oranje-Nassau.

After the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 , he was inaugurated as 'Sovereign Prince' of the United Netherlands .  On March 16, 1815, he proclaimed himself king of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg, after which he was inaugurated as King on 21 September 1815 in Brussels.  In the same year, at the Congress of Vienna, the European powers decided to promote the Duchy of Luxembourg to the Grand Duchy and to recognize William as the first Grand Duke, with confirmation of the King's title.  This formally recognized the brand-new Dutch monarchy within Europe.  The new kingdom served as a buffer for both France and the United Kingdom . After the abdication in 1840 Willem I called himself King William Frederick, Count of Nassau.

In Germany, from 1803 to 1806, William I was "Fürst" ( prince ) of the principality of Nassau-Oranje-Fulda .  In 1806 and in the period 1813-1815 he was also Prince of the Principality of Nassau-Orange .

Prince of Nassau
From England to Napoleon
In 1793 he fought as captain-general against the French in the southern Netherlands and northern France.  Initially the French revolutionaries seemed to have been pushed back, but they came back.  In 1795 he was the prince, 23 years old, at the head of the State army against French invaders.  When the French advanced, he fled to England with his father.  On 6 January 1799 his brother, Prince Frederick , died as a general in Austrian service against Napoleon.

In August 1799, Willem and England and Russia tried to restore the stadholder's authority from North Holland, but this military action failed.  On 10 October 1799 a file was signed in Alkmaar and a week later the English and Russian troops were gone.  A large number of Batavian deserters, mutineers and war prisoners were transported to England, from which Willem formed the Dutch Brigade .  His father resigned himself to the fact that the political role of the Oranges was played out.  Not yet son Willem, who eventually received the former prince dioceses Fulda and Abbey of Corvey , the Abbey Weingarten and the state capital of Dortmund in 1803 as compensation for the loss of his possessions in the Low Countries of Napoleon .  Together they formed the principality of Nassau-Oranje-Fulda .

In 1801, the royal prince, through his emissary Maximilian d'Hangest, tried to become a sort of first consul of the Dutch Republic.  Because the concession was appreciated by Napoleon, William was invited to come to Paris where he spoke to Napoleon on February 25, 1802.  He was rejected for the position of the first consul.  In addition, he asked for and received German territory to compensate for the lost Dutch domains.  These were other German territories than the tribe countries of Nassau that had always been in the possession of the Oranges.  On 23 May 1802, France and Prussia signed a treaty in which Fulda and a number of other areas (Corvey, Weingarten and Dortmund) were promised to the Prince of Orange.  Prince William V indignantly disguised these possessions in his eyes and left them to the prince.  On 22 October, Prussian troops occupied the prince-diocese to secure the interests of the Orange and on 6 December, Willem held his entry as king in Fulda.

From Napoleon to Prussia
After the death of his father on 8 April 1806 in Brunswijk, Willem also became Prince of Nassau.  Willem would not take possession of the countries.  On 12 July 1806 the Rhine Union was closed and part of the lands of William was placed under the sovereignty of other princes.  William had not appeared as Napoleon's vassal in the Principality of Fulda , and thus in Article 24 the Weingarten glory was added to the Kingdom of Württemberg, the counties Siegen, Dillenburg and Hadamar to the Grand Duchy of Berg and the county of Diez and the share in the village of Münzfelden to the Duchy of Nassau .  At the moment, Fulda, Corvey and Dortmund remained.  When, on 6 August, the Holy Roman Empire came to an end, Willem was theoretically even sovereign prince of these countries.  In August 1806 Prussia decided that in the two previous wars against France had remained neutral, to join the coalition and declare war on France, because of French interference in German affairs.  Prussia issued an ultimatum to Napoleon which expired on 1 October 1806. Willem chose his family ties with Prussia and went over to the coalition against Napoleon.  The Fourth Coalition War against Napoleon, however, went dramatically for Prussia.  After the Battle of Auerstedt , Willem was captured by the French on 16 October in Erfurt in his function as Prussian general.  He was released the same day and immediately left for Berlin.  In Prussia he had to appear before the court martial on charges of cowardice.  He was neither acquitted nor condemned.  On October 31, Napoleon deprived the prince of his prince deeds for his betrayal by army order.  Napoleon later gave him a compensation for this loss as compensation, which was initially intended to compensate for the loss of his Dutch domains.  After the Prussian defeat Willem tried unsuccessfully to regain his German possessions of Napoleon.  Until the end of 1813 he lived with his family in the Niederländisches Palais in Berlin.

With Prussia to victory
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig, the constitutional system in central Germany collapsed.  The old situation was not simply restored.  Most areas came under military rule from Russia, Austria or Prussia.  William was immediately restored by his ties with Prussia in the areas before 1803. The (Napoleonic) Grand Duchy of Berg no longer existed and in the Nassau counties Siegen, Dillenburg and Hadamar the restoration could be carried out immediately.  For the county of Diez, the situation was slightly different, because the Duke of Nassau had joined the Allies in time.  Yet this area was also transferred to Orange.  Ultimately, the government of William I in Nassau would be short-lived.  In 1815 a treaty with Prussia was concluded, during which the old tribal countries of Nassau were ceded in exchange for the new Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

King of the Netherlands
November 1813
On November 30, 1813, Willem set foot on Dutch soil again after eighteen years.  In London he was invited by letter as "sovereign prince" to take over the government.  The letter came from the Driemanschap of 1813 , the Hague notables Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp , Frans Adam van der Duyn from Maasdam and Leopold van Limburg Stirum .  Willem accepted their invitation and the English frigate The Warrior brought him to the coast of Scheveningen .  With a farm wagon he was then taken out of the sea to the beach and driven to The Hague in an open carriage accompanied by a joyful crowd.  One of the first things he did in the Netherlands was proclaiming a proclamation, in which he announced: "Our common Fatherland is saved: The old types will soon be revived."  Van Hogendorp was first elevated to count with Van der Duyn, but by the way he was dismissed by the king over time because of his constant criticism of the course of events.  On 1 December Willem was proclaimed sovereign prince, which was accepted by him on 2 December.

Merchant King
Willem maintained as an absolute monarch and enlightened despot the reforms of French Time.  Willem was an entrepreneur who invested heavily in the industry in the south of his country.  He was the founder and shareholder of the later Belgian Generale Maatschappij .  In 1824 he founded the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij .  Willem was very deserving for the water state.  New channels and street roads were laid out in his assignment.  Investments in such large national projects were carried out by political opponents outside the budget with the help of the Amortization Syndicate, in which the crown domains were accommodated as security.  Profits were in this way in his favor, loss taxed these state properties.  Willem supported William Cockerill in 1817 in Seraing in the construction of the largest steam engine factory in Europe.  In 1820 the company built its first steamer and in 1835 its first steam locomotive .  Cockerill would not be grateful for the support of the Belgian revolution . Willem was the first capitalist ruler of Europe , who, with somewhat modern methods, greatly increased his revenues while the working class ran aground.  In 1815, the king's assets were estimated at 10 million and 25 years later at 200 million guilders, ie twenty-fold. One third of the population of Amsterdam lived from the French period of ecclesiastical and civilian care, which was seen by foreigners as fairly generous compared to other European countries.  He worked on the introduction of the metric system and wanted to make the United Kingdom of the Netherlands a modern and enlightened unitary state.  In religious and linguistic areas, these reforms met with resistance.

In 1827 the plan was created to dig a canal through Gran Colombia ;  King William I became enthusiastic.  He founded the Westindische Maatschappij in 1828, for the most part family ownership. The plan was abandoned in 1830.

Abdication and last years
The limitation of his power and Belgian secession were the main reasons for William to abdicate ( abdication ) on 7 October 1840 in favor of his son, King William II .  In November, Willem left for Berlin.  He retained his royal rank and his address was: His Majesty the Count of Nassau.  He first lived with his daughter Marianne and later moved on to the Niederländisches Palais, still belonging to him.  In Berlin, in February 1841, he married the Catholic HR Reichgrave Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont , who, from his father's side, came from a Roman Catholic Walloon noble family.  They went to live in the Dutch palace on the Unter den Linden in Berlin.  William's abdication did not mean the end of his involvement with the national finances.  He lent the state ten million guilders at 3% interest to prevent bankruptcy.

On December 12, 1843, Willem died in Berlin at the age of 71.  His remains were deposited on January 2, 1844 in the Royal Tomb in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft .  William I was great-grandfather when he died;  one month before the abdication, his grandson, later King William III , became the father of the successor Willem (Wiwill).  The only time that the four generations had appeared together in public was at the baptism of Wiwill in 1840.

Titles
Besides king of the Netherlands , Willem I wore the titles Prince of Orange-Nassau , Prince of Fulda (1803-1806), Count of Corvey , Weingarten and Dortmund (1802-1806) and later as William I sovereign Prince of the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands (1813-1815), Duke of Luxembourg (1815), Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1815-1840) and Duke of Limburg (1839-1840).  After his abdication , he accepted the title and name of King William Frederick Count of Nassau .

Weapon
The coat of arms of William I of the Netherlands as Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands was established on January 14, 1814. The coat of arms was a reminder of that of Maurits and Frederik Hendrik .  The weapon was castrated from the republic and the coats of arms of the Oranges.

Chalon , the hunting horn of Orange and Geneva , can be seen from the legacy of the Orange .  A combination that had already taken a prominent place in the arms of the Father of Fatherland .  The lion of Nassau , a golden lion on a blue field that is strewn with golden beams, is placed as a heartshield.

From the inheritance inheritance of his father William V, the sovereign prince took over the crown and the shielding lions and the motto " Je Maintiendrai ".  Around the shield hung a derivative of the Prussian High Order of the Black Eagle , the Sovereign Prince did not yet own a knighthood.  The young monarch could also have opted for a garter .

The weapon only served for 20 months, because on August 24, 1815, Willem Frederik, who was King William I of the Netherlands, took up a new weapon.

 

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