Facts: - death place: kensington palace , london - signature: williamiii sig.svg - type: monarch - caption: william iii by sir godfrey kneller - succession: king of england , scotland and ireland - reign: 13 february 1689 -- - death date: 8 march 1702 - name: william iii - image: file 1650-1702 -rrb- -lrb- lighter -rrb- . jpg : king william iii of england , -lrb- - moretext: -lrb- more & nbsp ; ... -rrb- - religion: calvinism - birth place: binnenhof , the hague Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william iii of england .
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william iii -lrb- ; 4 november 1650 -- 8 march 1702 -rrb- was sovereign prince of orange from birth , stadtholder of holland , zeeland , utrecht , gelderland , and overijssel in the dutch republic from 1672 , and king of england , ireland , and scotland from 1689 until his death .it is a coincidence that his regnal number -lrb- iii -rrb- was the same for both orange and england .as king of scotland , he is known as william ii .he is informally and affectionately known by sections of the population in northern ireland and scotland as '' king billy '' .william inherited the principality of orange from his father , william ii , who died a week before william 's birth .his mother mary , princess royal , was the daughter of king charles i of england .in 1677 , he married his mother 's niece and his first cousin , mary , the daughter of his maternal uncle james , duke of york .a protestant , william participated in several wars against the powerful catholic king of france , louis xiv , in coalition with protestant and catholic powers in europe .many protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith .in 1685 , his catholic father-in-law , james , became king of england , ireland and scotland , but his reign was unpopular with the protestant majority in britain .william was invited to invade england by a group of influential political and religious leaders and , in what became known as the '' glorious revolution '' , on 5 november 1688 , william landed at the southern english port of brixham .james was deposed and william and mary became joint sovereigns in james 's place .they reigned together until her death on 28 december 1694 after which william ruled as sole monarch .william 's reputation as a strong protestant enabled him to take the british crowns when many were fearful of a revival of catholicism under james .william 's final victory at the battle of the boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the orange order .his reign in britain marked the beginning of the transition from the personal...