A Williamite was a follower of King William III who deposed King James II in the Glorious Revolution. William, the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, replaced James with the support of English Whigs.
Stoke House (1695) in Vitruvius Britannicus I (1715)
The Williamite War in Ireland took place from March 1689 to October 1691. Fought between Jacobite supporters of James II and those of his successor, William III, it resulted in a Williamite victory. I
Battle of the Boyne by Jan van Huchtenburg
Schomberg (1615–1690), Williamite commander in Ireland; immensely experienced, he was a Marshal of France, England and Portugal.
French envoy d'Avaux, whose relationship with the Irish was one of mutual mistrust and dislike
The Boyne; a narrow Williamite victory, in which Schomberg was killed (bottom right)