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One of the most important UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Belém area of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, is the Jerónimos Monastery. Jerónimos Monastery in Belém Lisbon Portugal It was built in the amazing beautiful Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture. Some royal history On 6 January 1501 the construction of the monastery and the church started, 100 years later it was completed. King Manuel originally funded the project with moneys of the commerce from Africa and the Orient. Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Lisbon, Portugal It was King Manuel himself who selected the religious order of the Hieronymite monks to occupy the monastery, whose role it was to pray for the King's eternal soul and to provide spiritual assistance to navigators and sailors who departed from the port of Restelo to discover the world. On 16 July 1604, Philip of Spain (he ruled of Portugal after the Iberian Union) made the monastery a royal funerary monument. He

7 August 1613 marks the birth of William Frederick of Nassau -Dietz. This took place at Arnhem (now a part of the Netherlands then a part of the Dutch Republic). Family William Frederick of Nassau-Dietz was the second son of Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz and Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick- Lüneburg. He had an elder brother Hendrik Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz. Love and Marriage William Frederick of Nassau - Dietz married Albertine Agnes of Nassau, the 5th. daughter of Frdercik Henry, Prince of Orange on 2 May 1652 at Cleves. This couple had 3 children: Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Henry Casimir II, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Wilhelmina Sophia Hedwig. William Frederick was a paternal grandson of John VI, Count of Nassau- Dillenburg, a younger brother of his wife's paternal grandfather: William the Silent. Career William Frederick studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, later he took a commission in the army of the Dutch Republic. He