For the present he remained with his mother, the noble Louisa de Coligny, who had thus seen, at long intervals, her father and two husbands fall victims to the Spanish policy; for it is as certain that Philip knew beforehand, and testified his approbation of, the massacre of St.Bartholomew, as that he was the murderer of Orange.
The Estates of Holland implored the widowed Princess to remain in their territority, settling a liberal allowance upon herself and her child, and she fixed her residence at Leyden.
But her position was most melancholy.

Married in youth to the Seigneur de Teligny, a young noble of distinguished qualities, she had soon become both a widow and an orphan in the dread night of St.Bartholomew.She had made her own escape to Switzerland; and ten years afterwards she had united herself in marriage with the Prince of Orange.

At the age of thirty-two, she now found herself desolate and wretched in a foreign land, where she had never felt thoroughly at home.

The widow and children of William the Silent were almost without the necessaries of life.

"I hardly know," wrote the Princess to her brother-in-law, Count John, "how the children and I are to maintain ourselves according to the honour of the house.