00:00William III, born on November 14, 1650 (November 24 Gregorian), died on March 8, 1702 (18
00:07Gregorian March, in London, statuary of the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Geldre and Overheyssel, belonging to the
00:13United provinces from 9 July 1672, became King of England and Ireland under the name William
00:19III and King of Scotland under the name of William II from 13 February 1689 until his death.
00:24Born into the House of Orange-Nassau and titled Prince of Orange from birth, his father having died some
00:29Days earlier, Guillaume faced political leaders from the United Provinces who wanted to prevent him from assuming the role of sultan.
00:36provincial governor, held by his ancestors since Prince William I of Orange Nassau, his great-grandfather.
00:41From 1668 onwards, however, he managed to obtain public offices, and in 1672, when the United Provinces had to
00:49Facing a coalition led by France and England, he was finally appointed statuary and subsequently managed to safeguard
00:54his country's interests in the various peace treaties.
00:57Grandson, through his mother, of King Charles I of England, who was beheaded in 1649 during the first revolution
01:03In 1677, William, an Englishman, married his first cousin Princess Mary, eldest daughter of Crown Prince James, Duke of York.
01:10When he became king in 1685, his Catholicism and absolutist views alienated English public opinion.
01:17Following the birth in June 1688 of a son to James II, tensions were at their highest.
01:22at its peak.
01:23William then intervened in England by landing with an expeditionary force which quickly obtained the surrender of the king, December 1688.
01:31The parliaments of England and Scotland, meeting in 1689, granted William both crowns, jointly with his wife.
01:37Marie II, with whom he governed until her death on December 28, 1694.
01:42But they also impose a number of limits on his powers, set out in the Declaration of Rights, Bill of
01:48Rights, from 1689 and his reign mark the transition between the personal power of the Stuarts and the power controlled by
01:54the parliament of the House of Hanover.
01:56Internally, he faced opposition from the supporters of James II, the Jacobites, who rose up in
02:01Ireland, where William won the Battle of Boine, July 12, 1690,
02:06today an emblem of the Orange Order Protestants of Northern Ireland and Scotland, where it is implicated in the massacre
02:11from Glencore.
02:12Externally, his reign was marked by the continuation of the war with France until 1697, then
02:18through an attempt at reconciliation around the question of the succession of the King of Spain, Charles II.
02:23Finally, in 1701, a new war broke out, the War of the Spanish Succession, but William III saw only...
02:28the beginnings, dying the following year as a result of a fall from a horse.
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