1) Stadholder
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A stadtholder (stadhouder, ˈstɑtˌɦʌudər), literally place holder (holding someone`s place, possibly a calque of German Statthalter, French lieutenant, or Medieval Latin locum tenens), was a term for a `steward` or `lieutenant`. In the Low Countries, the stadtholder was a medieval function, which during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries ...
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• (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
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provincial executive officer in the Low Countries, or Netherlands, from the 15th through the 18th century. The office acquired extensive powers in ... [4 related articles]
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Stadt'hold`er noun [ Dutch
stadhouder ;
stad a city, a town +
houder a holder.] Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
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A stadtholder was a government official in the Low Countries between the 15th and 18th centuries. Initially, stadtholders were noblemen appointed by the ruling dukes as viceroys in each province of the Low Countries. In the late 16th century, when the provinces that later became the Netherlands won their independence from Spain, the stadtholderates...
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stadholder.
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