The Triumvirate of 1813 (''Driemanschap van 1813'') formed the provisional government of the

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after

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and the French troops had left the country. It consisted of

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Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam Adam Frans Jules Armand, Count van der Duyn, ''Lord of the manor, lord of Maasdam and 's-Gravenmoer'' (13 April 1771 - 19 September 1848) was Netherlands, Dutch officer and politician. He was part of the Triumvirate of 1813 that invited Prince Wil ...

and Leopold of Limburg Stirum. Proclaimed by declaration on 20 November 1813, the three statesmen invited the almost forgotten Prince William Frederick of Orange-Nassau to

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to prevent anarchy or a possible annexation of the Netherlands by

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or England. William Frederick arrived in Scheveningen on 30 November and accepted sovereignty of the newly established

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on 2 December 1813. The Triumvirate, having completed its objective, was disestablished on 6 December. William Frederick would go on to become the first King of the Netherlands as William I in 1815.

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* {{Netherlands-hist-stub 1813 in the Netherlands