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 William the Silent (24 April 153310 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from nl, Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange ( nl, Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch Re ...

and his third spouse

Charlotte of Bourbon Charlotte of Bourbon (1546/1547 – 5 May 1582) was a Princess consort of Orange as the third spouse of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. She was the fourth daughter of Louis III de Bou ...

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.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 /ref> 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

References

Charlotte Flandrina: biography on Worldroots
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