Triumvirate of 1813

This Triumvirate issued a proclamation in The Hague on 20 November 1813 in which it took charge of the general government and declared that the Netherlands was free from French rule.

[5] The next day a proclamation followed in which a Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands was proclaimed, with the announcement that there was a General Government of the United Netherlands, in the name of the Prince of Orange, and that all compatriots were released from their oath of allegiance to the French Emperor.

Before he arrived from Amsterdam on November 29, François Daniël Changuion served as general secretary.

[8] William accepted the invitation of the Triumvirate and a British frigate took him to the coast of Scheveningen where he set foot on Dutch soil on 30 November 1813.

International recognition of William Frederick as monarch and the first King of the Netherlands, only came about at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp , Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam and Leopold of Limburg Stirum on the monument at Plein 1813 (1813 Square) in The Hague
The Triumvirate Assuming Power on Behalf of the Prince of Orange by Jan Willem Pieneman , 1828.