Talk:William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz

Page title
I chose the current title: "Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz" because that was already used in a number of articles as a link. However, as the article about his son has the title "Henry Casimir II, Count of Nassau-Dietz" (changed from "Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz") it is probably better to change this to "Willem Frederik, Count of Nassau-Dietz" to achieve a consistent system. I propose to do this later as soon as I have figured out an efficient way to change all the links. Please bear with me--Ereunetes (talk) 23:41, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * On reflection, it might not be a good idea to change the title of this article to "Willem Frederik, Count of Nassau-Dietz". I have given my reasons on Talk:Henry Casimir II, Count of Nassau-Dietz and will say here only that "Count" is strictly not correct (it ought to be "Reichsfuerst"), and that the title change would cause a lot of needless bother.--Ereunetes (talk) 21:28, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Regnal title
I am not a very enthusiastic supporter of the boxes-craze. Especially if they introduce historical errors. There was a good reason why I placed the stadtholder box outside the regnal title box. And that is that stadtholder is *not* a regnal title. This is a common error on most pages of members of the House of Orange (or the cadet branch of the family). They held bona fide feodal titles, like Prince of Orange, or Count of Nassau. But Stadtholder was a provincial office, held over from pre-Revolt days. It is therefore inappropriate to place stadtholder under the regnal-title banner. It is an important point, because the Frisians would have been abhorred if one had told them that their stadtholder actually reigned over them, instead of being the "first servant" of the sovereign States of Friesland. I am sorry to mess up the pretty picture, but historical accuracy is more important.--Ereunetes (talk) 20:30, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Family life: from brother to uncle
The paragraph beginning with "William Frederick had himself [sic] a similarly complicated dynastic past" (which, in my opinion, he didn't really) states that William Louis was the elder brother of Henry Casimir I and William Frederick. He was not: he was their uncle (eldest brother of Ernst Casimir). I have changed the text accordingly. Collideascope (talk) 19:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)