Princess of Orange

Máxima, Princess of Orange is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange. She is first Princess of Orange in over 153 years.

Princess Of Orange Media

Coat of arms of the counts of Orange of the first house of Orange. It came to stand for the principality of Orange. The homophony of the town's name with the fruit is a coincidence. The bugle-horn, supposedly derived from the first prince's surname "au Courb-nez" (curved-nosed or perhaps short-nosed), transformed into "au cornet" (with the bugle).
Coat of arms of the city of Orange in the Vaucluse. They were granted to the city by the princes of Orange of the house of des Baux in the last quarter of the 12th century.
Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange – William I (in role 1544–1584), Maurice (1618–1625) and Frederick Henry (1625–1647), William II (1647–1650), William III (1650–1702) – Willem van Honthorst, 1662
Map of the principality of Orange in the 16th century.
A detailed map of the principality in the first half of the 17th century reproduced from the famous 1627 Atlas of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. The area of the principality was approximately 12 miles long by 9 miles wide, or 108 sq. miles.
Original arms of the Principality of Orange
Original arms of the Principality of Orange
Original arms of the Principality of Orange
Seal (device) Baux-Orange

Princess of Orange is the title (name) used for the women who were married to the Ruling Princes of Orange in the time between 1171 to 1815. Since 1815, it was also used for the wives of the heirs to the Dutch throne, who were titled Prince of Orange. The only woman who became a Princess of Orange without being married to a Prince of Orange was Marie, Princess of Orange (1393-1417). Together with her husband John, Prince of Orange (1393-1418), they governed the land.

Because the title Prince of Orange was only used for 'the eldest son of the King' (the crown prince), Dutch crown princesses did not get the title. There were no "oldest sons" for a few generations, and so the title was not used since 1877. Because Dutch law was changed in 1983 to include "oldest daughters of the King", Catharina-Amalia, the next Princess of Orange became the first Dutch Princess of Orange in her own right once her father, Prince Willem-Alexander, became King of the Netherlands.

Princesses of Orange

House of Baux

Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Princess	Stopped to be Princess	Death	Husband
Tibors de Sarenom	Guilhem	1130	after 5 June 1156	1171 husband's accession	1181 husband's death	after 13 August 1198	Bertrand I
Ermengarde de Mévouillon	Mévouillon	1130	after 5 June 1156	1181 husband's accession	21 March 1203 divorce	?	William I
Alix	Unknown	?	after 1203		1218, before 30 July husband's death	1219?	William I
Malberjone of Aix	Aix	?	17 June 1239		?	?	Raymond I
Eleonore of Geneva	Geneva	?	1273	1282 husband's accession	1314 husband's death	?	Bertrand II
Anne de Viennois	Viennois-de la Tour-du-Pin	?	before 31 January 1318		1340 husband's death	after 27 November 1357	Raymond II
Constance of Trian	Trian	?	?	1340 husband's death	before 1358		Raymond III
Jeanne of Geneva	Geneva	?	12 April 1358		before 15 February 1389		Raymond III

House of Châlon-Arlay

Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Princess	Stopped to be Princess	Death	Husband
Marie of Baux suo jure	Raymond III (Baux)	-	11 April 1386	10 February 1393	October 1417		John I
Joanna of Montfaucon	Henri of Montbéliard, Lady of Montfaucon (Montfaucon)	-	April 1418	October 1417 husband's accession	14 May 1445		Louis I
Eléonore of Armagnac	John IV, Count of Armagnac (Armagnac)	1423	26 September 1446		6/11 December 1456
Blanche of Gamaches	Guillaume, Lord of Gamaches (Gamaches)	-	-		3 December 1463 husband's death	23 May 1479
Catherine of Brittany	Richard, Count of Étampes (Montfort)	1428	19 August 1438	3 December 1463 husband's accession	27 September 1475 husband's death	before 22 Abril 1476	William II
Joanna of Bourbon	Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (Bourbon)	1442	21 October 1467	27 September 1475 husband's accession	1493		John II
Philiberta of Luxembourg	Antoine de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (Luxemburg-Ligny)	-	January 1494		15 April 1502 husband's death	May 1539	John II

House of Nassau

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Princess	Stopped to be Princess	Death	Husband
	Anna of Lorraine	Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (Lorraine)	25 July 1522	22 August 1540		15 July 1544 husband's death	15 May 1568	René

House of Orange-Nassau

Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Princess	Stopped to be Princess	Death	Husband
Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel	Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (Hesse-Kassel)	7 February 1688	26 April 1709		14 July 1711 husband's death	9 April 1765	John William Friso
Anne of Great Britain and Hanover	George II of Great Britain (Hanover)	2 November 1709	25 March 1734		22 October 1751 husband's death	12 January 1759	William IV
Wilhelmina of Prussia	Prince Augustus William of Prussia (Hohenzollern)	7 August 1751	4 October 1767		9 April 1806 husband's death	9 June 1820	William V
Wilhelmine of Prussia	Frederick William II of Prussia (Hohenzollern)	18 November 1774	1 October 1791	9 April 1806 husband's accession	16 March 1815 became queen	12 October 1837	William VI
Anna Pavlovna of Russia	Paul I of Russia (Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov)	18 January 1795	21 February 1816		7 October 1840 became queen	1 March 1865	William VII
Sophie of Württemberg	William I of Württemberg (Württemberg)	17 June 1818	18 June 1839	7 October 1840 husband's accession	7 March 1849 became queen	3 June 1877	William VIII
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti	Jorge Zorreguieta	17 May 1971	2 February 2002		At the moment	-	Willem-Alexander

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