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King Ekathotsarot , also known as Sanpet III or the White Prince (in contrast to his darker skinned elder brother and predecessor), was the ruler of Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 (Siam) from 1605 until his death in 1610.

He was born in Phitsanulok
Phitsanulok

Phitsanulok is an important and historic city in lower northern Thailand and is the capital of Phitsanulok Province, which stretches all the way to the Laotian border....
 some time after 1556, a son of King Maha Thammaracha
Maha Thammaracha

His Majesty King Maha Thammaracha was the 24th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom and the fifth monarch to come from the Ayutthaya Kingdom#Sukhothai Dynasty,...
 and Queen Visutkasattri. He was a full brother of King Naresuan
Naresuan

Naresuan was King of Siam from 1590 until his death in 1605. During his reign, Siam reached its greatest territorial extent....
 the Great. During King Naresuan's reign, Ekhathotsarot served as Uparaja
Uparaja

Ouparath, also Ouparaja, or Uparaja, are titles for viceregal positions reserved for of the Buddhist dynasties in Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and Laos, as well as some minor tributary kingdoms of these....
 (vice-king), but with authority equal to the king.






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King Ekathotsarot , also known as Sanpet III or the White Prince (in contrast to his darker skinned elder brother and predecessor), was the ruler of Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 (Siam) from 1605 until his death in 1610.

He was born in Phitsanulok
Phitsanulok

Phitsanulok is an important and historic city in lower northern Thailand and is the capital of Phitsanulok Province, which stretches all the way to the Laotian border....
 some time after 1556, a son of King Maha Thammaracha
Maha Thammaracha

His Majesty King Maha Thammaracha was the 24th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom and the fifth monarch to come from the Ayutthaya Kingdom#Sukhothai Dynasty,...
 and Queen Visutkasattri. He was a full brother of King Naresuan
Naresuan

Naresuan was King of Siam from 1590 until his death in 1605. During his reign, Siam reached its greatest territorial extent....
 the Great. During King Naresuan's reign, Ekhathotsarot served as Uparaja
Uparaja

Ouparath, also Ouparaja, or Uparaja, are titles for viceregal positions reserved for of the Buddhist dynasties in Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and Laos, as well as some minor tributary kingdoms of these....
 (vice-king), but with authority equal to the king. Following Naresuan's death in 1605, he succeeded to the throne, reigning for 5 years.

During the reign of Ekathotsarot, a Siamese embassy reached the Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 city of The Hague
The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
, in 1608. The embassy of 16 was brought to Holland by Admiral Matelief onboard L'Orange, leaving Bantam
Bantam

Bantam may refer to:* Bantam , a small domestic chicken* Bantam an adjective used to suggest that the subject is powerful despite its diminutive size...
 on January 28, 1608. The embassy arrived in The Hague on September 10, 1608, and met with Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Maurice of Nassau , Prince of Orange , son of William the Silent and Princess Anna of Saxony, was born at the castle of Dillenburg. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the Prince-elector Maurice of Saxony, who was also a noted general....
.. This visit coincided with the first recorded mention of the observation of the heavens with a spyglass: the application of a patent by the inventor of the telescope
Telescope

A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century....
, the Dutch Hans Lippershey
Hans Lippershey

File:Hans Lippershey.jpgHans Lippershey , also known as Johann Lippershey or Lipperhey, was a Germany-Netherlands lens .He was born in Wesel, in western Germany....
, was mentioned at the end of a diplomatic report on the Siamese Embassy, Ambassades du Roy de Siam envoyé à l'Excellence du Prince Maurice, arrive a La Haye, le 10. septembr. 1608 ("Embassy of the King of Siam sent to his Excellence Prince Maurice, September 10, 1608"), which soon diffused across Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

Following the embassy, a treaty was concluded between Holland and Siam in 1617.