Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau

Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (Antwerp, 18 August 1579 – St.Croix (near Poitiers), 16 April 1640) was a french abbess. She was the fourth daughter of William the Silent and his third spouse Charlotte of Bourbon.^[1]

Biography

After her mother's death in 1582, her French grandfather asked for Charlotte Flandrina to stay with him.

Against the will of her paternal family, she was raised to become a Catholic nun by her maternal aunt Jeanne de Bourbon, abbess of Jouarre de Ste. Croix in Poitiers, and became a nun in 1595, succeeding her aunt as abbess in 1605.^[2]

She spent her life in the convent, tending to religion and religious charity. She maintained a correspondence with her stepmother and her sisters, and while she sometimes attempted to convert them, their relationship was a good one, and her sisters Elisabeth Flandrika and Charlotte Brabantina sometimes visited her.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau

8. John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen

4. William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen

9. Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg

2. William the Silent

10. Bodo III, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode

5. Juliana of Stolberg-Wernigerode

11. Anna of Eppstein-Königstein

1. Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau

12. Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon

6. Louis, Duke of Montpensier

13. Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier

3. Charlotte of Bourbon

14. Jean de Longwy

7. Jacqueline de Longwy

15. Jeanne of Angoulême

References

^ "Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland". 17 September 2019.
^ Matty Klatter, Flandrina van Oranje , i: Digital Women's Lexicon of the Netherlands. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/FlandrinavanOranje [ 13/01/2014 ]

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