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=== End of the stadtholdership === William IV died in 1751, leaving his three-year-old son, [[William V, Prince of Orange|William V]], as the stadtholder. Since William V was still a minor, the regents reigned for him. He grew up to be an indecisive person, a character defect which would come to haunt William V his whole life. His marriage to Wilhelmina of Prussia relieved this defect to some degree. In 1787, Willem V survived an attempt to depose him by the [[Patriottentijd|Patriots]] (anti-Orangist revolutionaries) after the [[Prussian invasion of Holland|Kingdom of Prussia intervened]]. When the [[Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition|French invaded Holland]] in 1795, William V was forced into exile, and he was never to return alive to Holland.<ref name=Rowen/>{{rp|228β229}}<ref name=Blok/>{{rp|vol5,289}} After 1795, the House of Orange-Nassau faced a difficult period, surviving in exile at other European courts, especially those of Prussia and Britain. Following the recognition of the [[Batavian Republic]] by the 1801 [[Oranienstein Letters]], William V's son William VI renounced the stadtholdership in 1802. In return, he received a few territories like the [[Dortmund|Free Imperial City of Dortmund]], [[Imperial Abbey of Corvey|Corvey Abbey]] and [[Fulda monastery|Diocese of Fulda]] from First Consul [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of the [[French First Republic|French Republic]] ([[Treaty of Amiens]]), which was established as the [[Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda]].<ref>He acquired Fulda, Corvey, Weingarten and Dortmund. He lost the possessions again after changing sides from France to Prussia in 1806 when he refused to join the [[Confederation of the Rhine]]. Cf. J. and A. Romein 'Erflaters van onze beschaving', Querido, 1979</ref> William V died in 1806.<ref name="Hay2016">{{cite journal|last1=Hay|first1=Mark Edward|title=The House of Nassau between France and Independence, 1795β1814: Lesser Powers, Strategies of Conflict Resolution, Dynastic Networks|journal=The International History Review|date=1 June 2016|volume=38|issue=3|pages=482β504|doi=10.1080/07075332.2015.1046387|s2cid=155502574|url=https://www.academia.edu/25907933}}</ref>
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