Editing Captain general (section)

=== Netherlands ===
[[Maurice of Nassau]] was appointed to the office of "Captain General of the Union" (commander-in-chief of the [[Dutch States Army]]) and "Admiral General" of the [[Dutch Republic]] in 1587. This was a "confederal" office, under the [[States General of the Netherlands]]. He was also [[stadtholder]] of five of the seven provinces, which was a ''provincial'' appointive office, under the sovereign States of the several provinces. Maurice's nephew [[William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]] was concurrently also a stadtholder (in two provinces) but he held a normal commission in the States Army. The office was not hereditary, but after 1747 only members of the [[House of Orange-Nassau]] could be ''appointed'' to it.