County of Buren
The county of Buren (pronounced: Büren ) in what is now the Dutch province of Gelderland was an independent county until the founding of the Batavian Republic in 1795 , which was not formally part of the United Provinces of the Netherlands , but was nonetheless dependent on them.
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The glory of Buren was created in 994 by splitting off from the county of Teisterbant and from then on was owned by Messrs. Van Buren . Their coat of arms became the coat of arms of the glory and the capital of Buren . Originally the High Glory consisted of the fortress town of Buren, to which the towns of Beusichem , Zoelmond , Buurmalsen and Tricht were inherited . In 1472 the Van Buren family was ousted from the Egmond family by the Gelderian dukes and in 1498 Emperor Maximilian I elevated the glory of Buren to a county. Later Emperor Karl V. wanted to raise Buren to the duchy, but Count Maximilian von Egmond refused with the following words: "Liever een rijke graaf, dan een arme hertog."
In 1551, Buren and the County of Leerdam came into the hands of the House of Orange-Nassau via Anna von Egmond-Buren . In 1795, when the Batavian Republic was proclaimed , all glorious rights were revoked and Buren lost its independence and the status of a county. Since then, the head of the House of Orange-Nassau (the Dutch head of state) has held the (honorary) title of graaf van Buren .
Counts of Buren
House Egmond
- 1492 (1498) -1521: Frederik von Egmond
- 1521–1539: Floris of Egmond
- 1539–1548: Maximilian von Egmond
- 1548–1558: Anna von Egmond-Buren , wife of Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau
House of Orange-Nassau
- 1551–1584: Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau
- 1584–1618: Philipp Wilhelm of Oranien-Nassau
- 1618–1625: Moritz von Oranien-Nassau
- 1625–1647: Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien-Nassau
- 1647–1650: Wilhelm II of Orange-Nassau
- 1650–1702: Wilhelm III. of Orange-Nassau
- 1702–1711: Johann Wilhelm Friso von Oranien-Nassau-Dietz
- 1711–1751: Wilhelm IV of Orange-Nassau-Dietz
- 1751–1795: Wilhelm V of Oranien-Nassau-Dietz