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Wilhelm is notable for raising an army of 40,000 soldiers, by 1678. He was an advocate of mercantilism, monopolies, subsidies, tariffA tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods, sometimes called a customs duty''. A revenue tariff is set with the intent of raising money for the government. A protective tariff usually applied to imported goods, is intended to artificiallys, and internal improvements. He agreed to exempt the nobilityThe nobility represents, or has represented, the higher stratum of a society in which social classes can be distinguished. The most distinctive feature of nobilty is that once acquired, it is passed to descendants, possibly according to some rules. Initia from taxA tax is an involuntary fee paid by individuals or businesses to a government. Taxes may be paid in cash or kind (although payments in kind may not always be allowed or classified as taxes in all systems). The means of taxation, and the uses to which thees, in return they agreed to dissolve the Estates-General.

Wilhelm was born, in BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea, to Georg Wilhelm von Brandeburg and Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz .

On 7 December 1646, at The Hague, he married Luise Henriette von Nassau (1627-1667), daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. Their children were Wilhelm Heinrich (1648-1649), Karl (1655-1674), Friedrich III-I (1657-1713), Amalie (1664-1656), Heinrich (1664-1664), and Ludwig (1666-1687)

On 13 June 1668 at Groningen he married Sophie Dorothea of Holstein-Glücksburg, daughter of Philipp von Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Sophie Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Their children were Philipp Wilhelm (1669-1711), Marie Amalie (1670-1739), Albrecht Friedrich (1672-1731), Karl (1673-1695), Elisabeth Sofie (1674-1748), Dorothea (1675-1676), and Christian Ludwig (1677-1734).

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