England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, etc." Arms As Prince of Orange, William's coat of arms was: Quarterly, I Azure billetty a lion rampant Or (for Nassau); II Or a lion rampant guardant Gules crowned Azure (Katzenelnbogen); III Gules a fess Argent (Vianden), IV Gules two lions passant guardant Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); between the I and II quarters an inescutcheon, Or a fess Sable (Moers); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a bend Or (Châlons); II and III Or a bugle horn Azure, stringed Gules (Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure (Geneva); between the III and IV quarters, an inescutcheon, Gules a fess counter embattled Argent (Buren). The coat of arms used by the king and queen was: Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); over all an escutcheon Azure billetty a lion rampant Or. In his later coat of arms, William used the motto: Je Maintiendrai (medieval French for "I will maintain"). The motto represents the House of Orange-Nassau, since it came into the family with the Principality of Orange. Ancestry Family tree See also Anglo-Dutch Wars British monarchs' family tree Constantijn Huygens Jr. – secretary to William III List of deserters from King James II to William of Orange Notes References Citations Bibliography Age of Revolution is the third volume of four, published 1957. External links BBC – History House of Orange Het Loo Palace N. Japikse, ed., Correspondentie van Willem III en van Hans Willem Bentinck, eersten graaf van Portland |- 1650 births 1702 deaths 17th-century Dutch military personnel 17th-century Dutch politicians 18th-century Dutch politicians 17th-century English monarchs 18th-century English monarchs 17th-century Scottish monarchs 18th-century Scottish monarchs 17th-century Irish monarchs 18th-century Irish monarchs Counts of Nassau Accidental deaths in London British military personnel of the Nine Years' War Dutch military personnel of the Nine Years' War Burials at Westminster Abbey Deaths by horse-riding accident in England Dutch Anglicans Dutch stadtholders House of Orange-Nassau Knights of the Garter Lord High Admirals of England Lords of Breda Modern child monarchs Nobility from The Hague English pretenders to the French throne Princes of Orange Protestant monarchs People of