A Corner of the History of Europe

In south of central Europe the status was as follows:
The current land area that includes the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, in the sixteenth century was called Normandy territories and was under the rule of the Habsburg of Spain. It was divided into seventeen small states that at the head of each one there was a family of regional rulers.
In 1544, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Spain, called William (1533-1584), the son of Kent of region Naso, as the Prince of Orange and appointed him to the head of the lower states.
Naso is a German inhabitants region next to Lahn River (a branch of the Rhine). William's ancestor had title of Kent Naso in the twelfth century and since then his descendants became known as the house of Naso. William was mightiest and richest ruler of Normandy provinces.
Philip II, son of the mighty Emperor of Spain, Charles V and, granted all Father's privileges to William, but William rebelled and eventually a war with Spain began. The war continued for eighty years (1568-1648).
In 1579, of the Union of seven northern states, the Union of Utrecht was established and headed by William. At this time, he was known as William the Silent due to the concealment of his plans against the Spanish empire. William of Orange was assassinated by Philip agents on July 10, 1584 and his desire for the establishment of the royal family of Naso - orange was nor realized in his lifetime. After him, his son, Maurice, took over the presidency of the Union of Utrecht.
Rule of dynasty Naso / orange continued on the lower states. During this period, although they were not known as "The King", they were actually powerful and rich as kings. In the seventeenth century, Dutch became colonial power of the world at the time. In 1689, Prince William Orange became king of England by the name of William III.
In the years 1793-1795, William Frederick of the family went to war with the French revolutionary army. He was defeated and fled to England along with his father, William V. After the defeat of Napoleon, in Paris Conference (1814) the mentioned lands were integrated and its kingdom was given to William Frederick. In 1815, William I was crowned as king of the Netherlands and reigned until 1840. He is known as autocratic king, not the Constitution. This is the process that led to the establishment of the Dutch royal family. Luxembourg's current royal family is also from the house of Naso / orange. We have repeatedly spoken about deep ties of rulers of Netherlands and at the head of them, the house of Naso / orange with Jewish plutocracy.
Jewish plutocracy's tie with the royal family of Habsburg and Oligarchs of overseas of Netherlands was a model for Hohenzollern family and great and small local rulers of Germany. That is why we see the establishment of court Jews in Central Europe's large and small courts in the eighteenth century.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, of the seventeenth century independent and scattered authoritarian regimes of Central Europe started luxurious courts and naturally and economically Jews could do a great service to the rulers. Jews settled in southern and central Europe could provide requires of small private armies of the rulers of the region to wheat, cattle and timber as well as jewelry and other decorative items required to provide for the rulers because of their connection with the Jewish East and Poland. According to our source, tax collection was the hardest thing for Europe courts, and the Jews came to help them because of "organizational talent and their connections with distant lands". Due to these relationships, especially with Thessaloniki and Istanbul and Baghdad and Isfahan, they could provide credit or cash requirements for foreign purchases of clothing, food, weapons of small armies of Europe, which was the primary means of governing of the local states.
The Jewish Encyclopedia notes: "there was no sudden institution called the court Jews, but it evolved gradually in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." According to the aforementioned source, the roots of this institution was formed especially during the Thirty Years' War in Europe (1618-1648) and Jewish jobberies and contractors such as Samuel Hersh Raider, Nathan Spanier, and Albertus Dennis served Berman, Denmark and Boekberg rulers.
During the Thirty Years Wars, both the Swedes and the enemies of them used the Jews for military and espionage, but in fact, it was in the second half of the seventeenth century that court Jews turned into one of needs of Europe authoritarian rulers' courts and were settled among a group of agents who ruled the land.
The changes were caused by the expansion of trade with the East and the concentration of wealth in the hands of the European rulers neighboring Ottoman Empire and the emergence of a culture of luxury which is called Baroque culture. During this period, Frankfurt and Hamburg were two important commercial and financial centers of Europe and the Association of Jewish merchants and traders and speculators. Along with these developments, the titles of these Jews became more respectful. At the beginning they were called court Jews and gradually they were called courtier banker and the court broker.
In terms of social and political privileges, this class was different than other Jews and enjoyed privileges that many Christian citizens were deprived from them that the most important and most influential one was ability to communicate directly with the governor. The Jewish Encyclopedia knows three branches of their main activity as" exchange "," Business ", and" diplomacy ". He writes:
They were very varied activities and would have encompassed financial, trade and diplomacy fields, but their primary responsibility was supplying monetary and fiscal needs of rulers and in the field of the preparation of metal for coins minted, providing Sievers of military, diplomatic and commercial missions [and presumably the information] and analysis of plans related to development of trade and industry, such as tobacco.