Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Return of the Conversos (1497-1677)" video.

  1.  @SamAronow  Stop presenting YT clickbait as fact. No proof of DeWitt being eaten whatsoevver. The Orangists where not monarchists, there was no dictatorship restored, the stadtholders were usually from the Orange Nassau family but appointed by Dutch parliaments for eacht of the 7 provinces. The conflict was about the loose federation, with the province of Holland calling the shots and being protected by the water and an inundation line, and a tighter federation with an army protecting the dryer provinces with the stadtholder as commander in chief. The neglect of the land defences by the Statists (Staten being the name of the Dutch parliaments) led by DeWitt had allowed the French to invade and occupy most of the country, but not Holland. The British fought along the French with their navy trhough the secret treaty of Dover, betraying the Dutch Republic and backstabbing DeWitt, and the Germans joined in with the bishopries of Cologne and Munster too. So the Orangists were proven right as the Dutch Republic was at the brink of total annihilation. Once appointed stadtholder by parliaments, these Orange-Nassau fellowes proved themselved capable to excellent military leaders usually and stadtholder Willem III saved the country, and would later successfully invade and conquer Britain. He became king of England, Scotland and Ireland, but was not a de facto monarch of the Dutch Republic. That's just not how monarchy worked in the days of the divine right of kings and absolute monarchism. A monarch was sent by god through inheretance. Monarch was not a word for a position of political power, stadtholder was an office to be appointed in meaning steward. Before the declaration of independence the stadtholder was a steward to the king for one or more of the 17 Netherlands (provinces, the Southern 10 remained Spanish). The Dutch Republic let in many piss poor Azkhenazi jews from the East too. The economic impact of the Sephardim was tiny too because global trade and the jewish network and knowledge in that was futile compared to the Dutch Republic's dominance of the far bigger European trade, basically taking over the Hanseatic League in particular. Allthough the VOC sneaked some through in the East, the Dutch Republic did not take part in the transatlantic slave trade until 1637 either.
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