Buren

Dutch town in the province of Gelderland, a known settlement in the 8th-c and a seigneurie from the early 12th-c. From the end of the 13th-c the lords of Buren came under the rule of the dukes of Gelre, but in the 15th-c came into conflict with Duke Arnold of Gelre, who after his restoration by Charles the Bold gave the seigneury to his cousin Frederick of Egmont. In 1492 the lord of Buren was made a count by Maximilian of Austria, and his great-granddaughter, Anna of Buren, married William of Orange in 1551, taking the county into the Orange family. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands used the title of Countess of Buren when travelling incognito.

Buren is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands and is strongly linked to the Dutch royal family.