William the Silent

William the Silent, Prince of Orange (1533-84), was the means of freeing the Netherlands from the Spanish yoke, and his biography is interwoven with the history of Holland (q.v., Vol. V. p. 742). See also the works cited at the end of that article; and, on William himself, Klose, Wilhelm I. von Oranien (Leip. 1864); Juste, Guillaume la Taciturne (Brussels, 1874); Barrett, William the Silent (Boston, 1883); Kolligs, Wilhelm von Oranien (Bonn, 1885); his correspondence, edited by Gachard (Brussels, 1847-66); and William the Silent, by Ruth Putnam (2 vols. 1895).