States General

English Etymology From en states, plural of en state + en general, after en nl Staten-Generaal, en frm etats generaux. Pronunciation en /steɪts ˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹəl/ UK Proper noun States General en now historical A representative assembly in the Habsburg Netherlands (until 1581) and subsequently in the Dutch Republic (until 1795), representing the three estates of clergy, nobles and commons. from 16th c. en 1712 Francis Hare (bishop) Francis Hare The Treaty Between Her Majesty and the States-General for Securing the Succession to the Crown of Great-Britain, and for Settling the Barrier for the States-General Against France, Consider'd 8 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Treaty_Between_Her_Majesty_and_the_S/OxpZAAAAcAAJ It ſhall be Lawful for his Royal Majeſty of Great-Britain, and the States-General, by common Advice, and for the Benefit and Enlargement of the Navigation and Commerce of their Subjects, to ſeize by their Forces, what Lands and Cities they can, belonging to the Spaniſh Dominions in the Indies; (…). en 1845 Thomas De Witt Sketches of New Netherland Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1844 57 https://books.google.nl/books?redir_esc=y&hl=nl&id=j5tSAAAAcAAJ Had the States General, early after the discovery by Hudson, directed their attention to this western field a basis would have been laid securing probably a long and prosperous continuance. en 1988 w:Simon Schama w:The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age 64-65 Berkeley University of California Press Sovereignty, it was affirmed, lay with the States General, whose bidding the Stadholder was to do as once he had done the king’s. en Memorial to the States General, 19 April 1781 2003 Gregg L. Lint;Richard Alan Ryerson;Anne Decker Cecere;Celeste Walker;Jennifer Shea;C. James Taylor. The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams 11 Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 272–282 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-11-02-0204 footnote 2 John Adams J[ohn] A[dams] was fully aware that the States General would not accept a memorial from the minister of a nation as yet unrecognized, but he nevertheless went through the motions of presenting it. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107231320/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-11-02-0204 7 November 2025 en Lost in Translation? The Languages of Euro-Southeast Asian Diplomacy in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 2017 Peter Borschberg Susan Richter;Michael Roth;Sebastian Meurer Konstruktionen Europas in der Frühen Neuzeit Heidelberg Heidelberg University Publishing 291-292 https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.291.389 https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view/291/402/123900#d1e8117 Early letters by the Malay rulers are addressed to the “king of Holland” whom they affectionately call their “brother”, in other words as their imagined royal counterpart. In practice such letters were received and read by the stadtholder, the States General, or both. en now historical A similar assembly in prerevolutionary France, occasionally convened by the King as a consultive body; it was first convened in 1392 and last in 1789, when its dissolution led to the Revolution. from 16th c. en 1932 w:Duff Cooper Talleyrand 18 Folio Society 2010 In 1789, with bankruptcy staring the government in the face, Louis XVI took the momentous decision to summon the States-General. en The bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1815 onwards. from 19th c. Synonyms French assembly: Estates General Translations Dutch assembly Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 三級會議 Dutch: nl Staten-Generaal p also used of the current Parliament German: de Generalstaaten m-p Polish: pl Stany Generalne nv-p French assembly Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 三級會議 Dutch: nl Staten-Generaal p French: fr états généraux m-p German: de Generalstände m-p Polish: pl Stany Generalne nv-p