Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem

Federal Chancellor and President of the Wolfsberg Empire from 1900 to his death in 1965Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem, also known as Wilhelmus the Great and by other names below, (January 31, 1860 - March 23, 1965) was a pure-blood Dutchman who reigned as the autocrat of the the Wolfsberg Empire who came to power following a war of succession on January 1, 1900, and brutally reigned the Wolfsberg Empire until his death on March 23, 1965. Wilhelmus is widely known during his reign and after his death as the Great Kaiser and his impact on both the Wolfsberg Empire and the Chawosaurian world are pretty well enormous. Wilhelmus is known in Chawosauria for his failure to convert the Chawosaurian world to Christianity after his nation conquered them in the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, and among Wolfsbergians, Wilhelmus modernized the Wolfsberg world beyond its empire. Wilhelmus is widely respected by Wolfsbergians and is the personification of the Wolfsbergian world, while Chawosauria, particularly its Christian population, Wilhelmus is a widely villainized figure who tried to colonize Chawosauria and failed Chawosaurian Christianity. Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem is the most significant in the House of Van Belleghem.
Van Belleghem's 65-year reign was based on the belief held by Van Belleghem that social democracy is best implemented in an authoritarian manner and that liberal democracy only frustrates the movement itself, this is known as Van Belleghemism. Van Belleghem was appointed Chancellor by Emperor Fitzpatrick in 1899, and he ended up backsliding Wolfsbergian government standards to have his agenda implemented by sidelining the emperor and Parliament in general. Van Belleghem's reign oversaw World War I, the Interwar Period which involved the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, and then finally after the Interwar Period, World War II, Van Belleghem then had to respond to the Cold War with both the United States from the western section of the Wolfsberg Empire and the Soviet Union from the eastern part of the Wolfsberg Empire, competing against each other over who gets the ultimate balance of power over the world. Van Belleghem declared the Wolfsberg Empire neutral against both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Van Belleghem also introduced the massive expansion of civil rights to all minority groups in the Wolfsberg Empire throughout his reign, he used his authoritarian power to outlaw racial and gender segregation, he prohibited systemic racism and systemic sexism, and he opposed the Wolforbian World's establishment of the Muslim Reserve, which limited Muslims from living outside the Muslim World.
Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem was born on January 31, 1860, in Amsterdam, to Thomas Wilhelmus Van Belleghem and Juliana Eva De Backer, two Dutch parents. Wilhelmus was raised into the Catholic faith, he lived all around Europe outside the Netherlands. Following the Italian invasion of Rome in 1870, the Van Belleghems moved to and lived for a short while in Washington, DC. Wilhelmus returned to the Netherlands in 1875 at 15 and joined the Dutch Navy, he was stationed in the Dutch Colonies in the East Indies and fought in three uprisings instigated by colonial locals. Wilhelmus, after military service, graduated from Oxford University, later than his friend, Garfield Lucas Webster. On February 14, 1886, he married Magdalena Valeria Windisch-Grätz in Amsterdam, and living in the Netherlands, Wilhelmus and Magdalena had their first son, Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem II, in 1890. Following Wilhelmus II's birth, more children were born the following years. Federal Chancellor Jonathan Sarban Boleslaus III died in office in 1893, and there was a competition on who will take over after Boleslaus. A War of Succession broke out for the chancellery, and Wilhelmus immediately becomes the popular candidate to become Chancellor, Wilhelmus was flattered and did not hesitate to run for the chancellery. Wilhelmus' Army was established when the war started in 1894, the war of succession waged from 1894, until 1898, with Wilhelmus' Army coming out victorious. 
Wilhelmus becomes the Federal Chancellor of the Wolfsberg Empire on January 1, 1900, and immediately began reconstruction of the Wolfsberg Empire. The staff of Wilhelmus' Army overtakes the ranks of the cabinet of the Federal Chancellery, and they used their power to fulfill Wilhelmus' vision for the Wolfsberg Empire. Wilhelmus ordered the backsliding of the Wolfsberg Constitution, the military personnel of Wilhelmus' Army becomes the secret police of the Wolfsberg Empire, and he outlawed political and religious criticism of Wilhelmus himself and his government, thus becoming a dictator. Wilhelmus ruled by decree and he and his cabinet of ministers led the empire. 
Wilhelmus met stark resistance from the Chawosaurian world as the Wolfsberg Empire funded the Chawosaurian Imperial Government if they enact the Wolfsbergs' Christianization program. Wilhelmus buttheaded with Chawosauria's Emperor Santiago over Christianization and due to complicated relations between Britain and the German states, Wilhelmus and Chawosaurian Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson did not got along well. In the 1910s, Wilhelmus' relations with Chawosaurian Prime Minister Garfield Webster was a very close one, two Catholics and two socialists who both wanted a progressive and Catholic world. In the 1920s, Wilhelmus had a less personal but professional relation with Chawosaurian Prime Minister Theodore A. McClellan. In the 1930s, Wilhelmus had a similar relation with Chawosaurian Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, but when it comes to Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, the two men fought each other for Orbian world monopoly. 
In the beginning of World War I, Wilhelmus' Army took control of the Wolfsberg Imperial Armed Forces, Wilhelmus began the process of drafting, but due to the severity of the war, the Wilhelmus Chancellery and the rest of the Wolfsberg government had to relocate from Wolfsberg to North America, Wilhelmus' chancellery relocated to Fredericton in Canada because Wilhelmus enjoyed Canada, while the Wolfsberg government relocated to New York City. The Wolfsberg government continued to function over the empire. Due to the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the entire Wolfsberg government did not return to Wolfsberg until the war was over. Returning to Wolfsberg in 1923, the interwar period served much of the Wolfsberg Empire from well to worse, the roaring twenties saw economic growth, starting with the impact of Berks Industries from the Chawosaurian world, with Joseph Wallace Berks, the CEO of Berks Industries, visiting Wolfsberg to introduce his inventions. Wilhelmus oversaw the mass industrialization of the Wolfsberg Empire throughout the interwar period due to his alliance with Berks Industries, and the transition to renewable energy under his reign. Going into the 1960s, Wilhelmus saw his health decline as his age greatly advances, he voiced his support for the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, his response to the Assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was strong, and he opposed the Vietnam War. 
During times of crisis, Wilhelmus traveled the Wolfsberg Empire to meet the Wolfsbergian people, spending time with them. Wilhelmus went to several war-torn parts of the Wolfsberg Empire during the world wars to meet Wolfsbergians to assure them and advised their ability to stay safe through radio address and man to man meetings with civilians. Wilhelmus repeatedly showed his empathetic side to Wolfsbergians in war-torn and poorer places across the empire, Wilhelmus used his immense power to create public work projects such as infrastructure projects near poorer neighborhoods to provide and create jobs, and established social welfare programs and other programs similar to the New Deal programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and he planned to copy U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs. As a result, Wilhelmus became widely popular amongst Wolfsbergians. However, Wilhelmus' health declined marginally in part due to aging, January 31, 1960 was Wilhelmus' 100th birthday. 
Wilhelmus died in his private chalet in Ossiach, Austria, to a cerebral hemorrhage, on March 23, 1965, at age 105. His death caused shock and grief all across the Wolfsberg Empire and around the Orbian world including Chawosauria. Wilhelmus' state funeral was on April 4-8, 1965, and he was laid to rest to Van Belleghem Mausoleum at the Wolfsberg National Cemetery in Wolfsberg, Austria. When Wilhelmus died, Wolfsbergians were extremely anxious with an uncertain future, the Wolfsberg government fell into chaos as it attempts to democratize itself and Wolfsbergian women and of color were extremely worried that Wilhelmus' death could cost them their civil rights that they had enjoyed for six decades of Wilhelmus' reign. The Wolfsberg Empire's already unsuccessful Christianization efforts of Chawosauria was further weakened and doomed by Wilhelmus' death, as a schism within the Wolfsberg government between powerful protestants and powerful Catholics from the west of the empire and Orthodox Christians from the empire's east clashed over what Christianization should look like for Chawosauria post-Wilhelmus, this infighting among Wolfsberg's Christian higherups was maintained by a strong dictator in Wilhelmus and once he had died, that schism was free to spill over. Chawosauria's prime minister at the time, Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, was an Orthodox Christian and he had influence over the Wolfsberg government's Orthodox faction, believing that he had ultimate momentum now that there is no longer a Catholic Kaiser like Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem nor a clear Catholic successor to Wilhelmus to compete for influence with on how Chawosauria should be Christianized. The Wolfsberg government's Catholic faction suffered a power vacuum as they struggle to find a successor leader after Wilhelmus. Ultimately, the Federal Chancellery and the Presidency, no longer centralized by one person, divided into two successors, George Lukas Dragan became Federal Chancellor and the Jewish Wolfsbergian, Jedediah Azariah Eisenberg, became President of the Wolfsberg Empire. 
In the years following Wilhelmus' death, the Wolfsberg Empire was re-democratized, the presidency was restored, the monarchy was no longer sidelined, a new Chancellor was installed in a contested chancellorship caucus election, and a new President was elected in a fair and free presidential election. Wilhelmus' legacy is widely positive, he is praised for the establishment of social democracy and is a civil rights icon. Orbian historians rank Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem as one of the greatest world leaders in the Orbian world. In the 2020s, Wilhelmus had been gaining more and more attention from both Chawosaurians and Wolfsbergians expressing interest in him, his politics, his personal life, his religion, his lifestyle, and his family. Wilhelmus' journals were collected and certain pages were published. Privately, Wilhelmus enjoyed squirrel feeding, trophy hunting, fishing, horseback riding, traveling especially across the empire, meeting new people, and walking and playing his German Shepherds. 
Wilhelmus is also a criticized figure. Chawosaurian Christians (who make up just a minority of the atheist-majority Chawosaurian world) criticized Wilhelmus for being too lenient in the Wolfsberg Empire's efforts to convert Chawosauria to Christianity, Wilhelmus' refusal to rule Chawosaurian politics led to the fall of Christianization and the consequent prosecution and widescale discrimination against Chawosaurian Christians in the Chawosaurian world by both the Chawosaurian general public and Chawosauria's new Communist Party government that rose to power on the backs to Chawosaurian public opposition to Christianization. The Wolfsberg right also hates Wilhelmus in part because of the failure of Christianization, but also for his authoritarian approach in establishing a socialist society. Wilhelmus had Jewish politicians in his administration, but they were only allowed to work at the financial, monetary, and legal sectors of the Van Belleghem administration as Wilhelmus once put it "to make good use of their talents" and he cautioned against sending Wolfsberg Jews or recommending Wolfsberg Jews as prime ministerial candidates to Chawosauria given that Chawosauria is a planet-wide oribis. 
== Other names ==
=== Initials ===
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== Early Life and Military Service ==
Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem was born in Van Belleghem Manor on January 31, 1860, in Amsterdam, to Thomas Wilhelmus Van Belleghem (1831-1884) and Juliana Eva De Backer (1836-1872), his elder brother was Thomas Wilhelmus Van Belleghem II (1858-1944), and his younger siblings were Juliana Eva Van Belleghem (1861-1958), Elizabeth Adriana Van Belleghem (1863-1973), Charlotte Louisa Van Belleghem (1867-1963), Wolfgang Mozart Van Belleghem (1870-1975), and Anastasia Merriam Van Belleghem (1872-1976). Wilhelmus was named for the Dutch National Anthem, and his middle name Adrian is derived from the author of the Dutch National Anthem, Adrianus Valerius. Wilhelmus' childhood activities were horseback riding, traveling, hunting, and witnessing circuses. In 1868, Wilhelmus met his future wife, Magdalena Valeria Windisch-Grätz, at a circus show in Germany, Magdalena's father, Archibald Thorbecke, was a business partner to Wilhelmus' father Thomas. 
Wilhelmus was raised into the Catholic Church but leaned in line with liberal Christianity, and he received his first communion in Rome in 1870, where he met Garfield Lucas Webster. Wilhelmus was born at a time when slavery over Africans still remained, and his parents were abolitionists motivated by their Catholic faith, Wilhelmus was three years old when slavery was abolished in the Dutch West Indies in 1863, but slavery wasn't fully eradicated in the entire Dutch colonial empire until 1914, when Wilhelmus was already Wolfsberg ruler. Wilhelmus came to oppose slavery himself and called its morality into question, and he long favored citizenship and equal rights for former slaves of the Dutch empire. Wilhelmus was sent to the Vatican for education, but witnessed the traumatizing Italian siege of Rome in 1870, which also inspired Wilhelmus to be interested in military service. Returning to Amsterdam, Wilhelmus' mother died in 1872 after giving birth to Anastasia, Wilhelmus' youngest sister. Wilhelmus moved to Washington DC for an advanced education. 
In 1881, Wilhelmus joined the Royal Netherlands Navy and fought three wars, the Aceh War, the Mandor Rebellion, and Jambi Uprising. In 1885, Wilhelmus had an honorable discharge due to an injury in the Jambi Uprising. In 1884, Wilhelmus fell in love with Margarita Valeria Thorbecke and successfully asked her out, and after Wilhelmus' honorable discharge, he and Margarita married on February 14, 1886 in Amsterdam and Magdalena converted to Catholicism transitioning from Lutheranism. Wilhelmus enjoyed his retirement with marriage with Magdalena, Wilhelmus and Magdalena's favorite past time was drinking and sex, but Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem II was born on January 31, 1890, when Wilhelmus just turned 30. Wilhelmus' father died in 1884 while he was at war and Wilhelmus accepted fatherhood as his own father would encourage him to father Wilhelmus II. 
== Wolfsberg War of Succession ==
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== Reign of the Wolfsberg Empire ==
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== Later Life, Death, and State Funeral ==
On January 31, 1960, Wilhelmus reached the age of 100 and his health began to decline rapidly and he became more senile. In May 1960, Wilhelmus had a stroke that nearly killed him but was saved by Magdalena, and he was well cared for by his grandchildren Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem III, Elizabeth Van Belleghem Walsingham, Wolfgang Van Belleghem, Jonathan Franklin Barnsley, Wolfgang Adrian Van Belleghem II, and Jonathan Lieven Van Belleghem. Wilhelmus' nephew, Conradus Klaus Van Belleghem, sought to claim power from his uncle, but to Conradus' disappointment, Wilhelmus survived and recovered well, and another nephew of Wilhelmus and cousin to Conradus, Zachariah DeBacker Van Belleghem, openly called Conradus "an asshole". 
Wilhelmus decided to rest at Ossiach, and from 1961 to 1965, Wilhelmus allowed other people to carry on his duties, and Conradus took most of the roles and Conradus contacted Zachariah and said "who's the asshole now?"
== Legacy ==
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== Personal Life ==
Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem's personal life is often unknown. 
=== Relationship with his family ===
Wilhelmus enjoyed private time with Magdalena, and he was very interactive with his children, often playing with them, joking with them, and for his daughters, he intensely spoiled them but he was often overprotective of them from men, and for his boys, he taught them how to wrestle and he wrestled with his sons very often on the yard and in the pool, and he enjoyed showing his boys every country on the globe, his favorite nations to teach his sons are the United States, Egypt, Russia, Germany, and Britain. It is surprisingly that his home nation, the Netherlands, isn't among them. 
Wilhelmus became concerned that his oldest son, Wilhelmus Jr, was not meeting his expectations, and another son, Wolfgang, was. Wilhelmus' relationship with his son Wolfgang Adrian Van Belleghem is very close, Wolfgang wanted to be with Chawosauria and Wilhelmus accepted his choices. Wilhelmus funded his daughter Charlotte's immigrations to Brazil for her first marriage and then to the United States to marry her second husband after her first died. When Charlotte married her third husband, a distant cousin, Wolfgang Lukas Van Belleghem IX, a divorced man who was married to Anastasia Bismarck, whose mother had an affair with Wilhelmus, Anastasia Bismarck was able to confront Wilhelmus in private over it when his daughter and her ex-husband married in 1945, and the interaction between Wilhelmus and Olympia was visibly awkward, resulting in rumors. 
The reason Wilhelmus chose Ossiach to keep his children at was because the community, the landscape, was beautiful, and he wanted his children to be around that. Wilhelmus had also wanted his children to have physical jobs working around the landscape of Ossiach, believing it will increase their knowledge of responsibility, get them to understand the day-to-day lives of commoners, and with money they made, Wilhelmus encouraged them to learn how to spend and be fiscally responsible. 
=== Extramarital affair with Olympia Valeria Webster ===
It is rare for Wilhelmus to be unfaithful, but he was madly in love with Chawosauria's Minister of Education, Olympia Valeria Webster (1881-1985), who was already known to several men to be promiscuous despite her own marriage. Wilhelmus loved his wife, but he often wondered if he should have married Olympia instead of Magdalena. Wilhelmus and Olympia often had sex in very several occasions, especially when Magdalena is pregnant and Wilhelmus needed sexual attention. 
Olympia is the only mistress that is prominent. Olympia did not admit this affair until 1977, by then, she was widowed and both Wilhelmus and Magdalena are deceased. 
== See also ==
* List of Federal Chancellors of the Wolfsberg Empire
* List of Presidents of the Wolfsberg Empire
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