Stadtholder
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
An anglicised form of the Dutch "stadhouder" ( i. e . stead-holder), a title conferred on the governors of provinces in the Low Countries, but chiefly associated with the rulers of Holland, Zealand, and Utrecht; in 1544 the title was held by William the Silent, and continued to be the designation of the head of the new republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands until 1802, when William V. was compelled to resign his stadtholdership to France, the country afterwards assuming a monarchical government.
