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 Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp,

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

and

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. 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

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on 30 November and accepted sovereignty of the newly established Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands on 2 December 1813. The Triumvirate, having completed its objective, was disestablished on 6 December. William Frederick would go on to become the first

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as William I in 1815.

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