Maurice of Orange
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- Feb 5, 2016
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Orange comes from the house of Orange-Nassau the reigning royal family of the Kingdom of the NetherlandsMaurice I have a question
Is the color orange named after the fruit, or is the fruit named after the color?
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The coat of arms comes from Maurice Prince of Orange, he led the Dutch in many great battles and is considered one of the greatest generals of all time as a strategist.
Maurice was originally known as Maurice Prince of Nassau but everyone kept saying I was an Islanders fan which isn’t good so I changed it to Orange which is a title he took later in life.
A ship named after himself was sank by Native Americans in a river in south Jersey which also bares his name.