his intestines. As Lord of Diest and a pious Catholic at the time of his death, Philip William of Orange commanded that the parish church of Saint Sulpice in the same city, should celebrate a yearly Requiem Mass for his soul. Diest is also the site of his burial in the Catholic Roman Rite. Diest is known as the "Orange City", and Philip William as "the Catholic prince of Orange", as his father in 1573 – leading the Dutch Revolt – had become a Calvinist Protestant instead of a Catholic as he had been before. Ancestors References The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806, Jonathan I. Israel, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998 . Pages 298–300. Nos beaux portraits. Faux Tilly et vrai Orange-Nassau. Propos autour du portrait présumé de Philippe-Guillaume d’Orange-Nassau attribué à Frans Pourbus le Jeune, Bernard van de Walle de Ghelcke, in Le Parchemin, Brussels, n° 436, juillet-août 2018, pages 381–436. External links |- 1554 births Counts of Nassau 1618 deaths People from Buren Dutch Roman Catholics 16th-century Dutch people 17th-century Dutch people House of Orange-Nassau Knights of the Golden Fleece Lords of Breda Princes of Orange University of Alcalá alumni