# William III of England

> He invaded his own father-in-law's kingdom and got away with it. William of Orange landed at Brixham in 1688, toppled Catholic James II without a proper battle, and ruled England alongside his wife - who happened to be James's daughter.

*King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702 (1650-1702)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/william-iii-of-england

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1650-11-14
- **Died:** 1702-03-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born a prince the day his father died in 1650, William spent his first two decades as a Dutch noble in the shadow of French aggression. When Louis XIV invaded the Dutch Republic in 1672, he became stadtholder and made opposing the French king his life's work. He married his cousin Mary in 1677, and when her father James II took the English throne in 1685, Protestant unease grew. Invited by English leaders who feared Catholic rule, William sailed for Brixham in 1688; James fled, and the so-called Glorious Revolution handed William and Mary a joint crown. He spent much of the 1690s fighting Louis abroad while Mary governed at home until her death in 1694. He survived a Jacobite assassination plot in 1696, but his name remained stained by the Massacre of Glencoe. Childless, he secured the Protestant succession through the Act of Settlement before dying in 1702, leaving the throne to Mary's sister Anne.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 16.3 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 4.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Royalty, #Early Modern Era

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