{"id":26,"date":"2018-02-07T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delft.ind.st\/wordpress\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:26:36","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.msdev.link\/index.php\/sample-page\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early history<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The Gemeenlandshuis and the Old Church in (1877) by <\/span>Cornelis Springer<\/a><\/div>\n
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Delft in 1649 (Blaeu)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The city of Delft came into being beside a canal, the ‘Delf’, which comes from the word delven<\/i>, meaning delving or digging, and led to the name Delft. It presumably started around the 11th century as a landlord court.<\/p>\n

From a rural village in the early Middle Ages, Delft developed into a city, that in the 13th century (1246) received its charter<\/a>. (For some more information about the early development, see Gracht<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The town’s association with the House of Orange<\/a> started when William of Orange<\/a> (Willem van Oranje), nicknamed William the Silent<\/a> (Willem de Zwijger), took up residence in 1572. At the time he was the leader of growing national Dutch resistance against Spanish occupation, known as the Eighty Years’ War<\/a>. By then Delft was one of the leading cities of Holland<\/a> and it was equipped with the necessary city walls<\/a> to serve as a headquarters. An attack by Spanish forces<\/a> in October of that year was repelled.<\/p>\n

After the Act of Abjuration<\/a> was proclaimed in 1581, Delft became the de facto<\/a><\/i> capital<\/a> of the newly independent Netherlands, as the seat of the Prince of Orange<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When William was shot dead in 1584 by Balthazar Gerards<\/a> in the hall of the Prinsenhof, the family’s traditional burial place in Breda<\/a> was still in the hands of the Spanish. Therefore, he was buried in the Delft Nieuwe Kerk<\/a> (New Church), starting a tradition for the House of Orange that has continued to the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early history The Gemeenlandshuis and the Old Church in (1877) by Cornelis Springer Delft in 1649 (Blaeu) The city of Delft came into being beside a canal, the ‘Delf’, which comes from the word delven, meaning delving or digging, and led to the name Delft. It presumably started around the 11th century as a landlord … <\/p>\n

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