Elisabeth of Culemborg (30 March 1475, the former slot of Hoogstraten - 9 December 1555,

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), nicknamed 'Lady Elizabeth ('Vrouwe Elisabeth') was the last sovereign lord or lady of the fiefdom of Culemborg (promoted to a county by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor shortly before her death), from 1504 until 1555. She was also the ''

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'' of

Archduchess Margaret of Austria Archduchess Margaret of Austria (german: Margarete; french: Marguerite; nl, Margaretha; es, Margarita; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. She was the fir ...

Life

She was the heiress of jonker and Joanna of Burgundy. In 1501 Elisabeth married († 1508), who died in 1508. She remarried in 1509 to

Antoon I van Lalaing Antoine I de Lalaing (1480–1540), 1st count of Hoogstraten and of Culemborg, was a Hainautese nobleman who held various offices in the court of the Dukes of Burgundy. Life De Lalaing was a son of Joost de Lalaing and Bonne van Viefville. He ...

, later acting-governor of the Netherlands. She had no children. She served as

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Joan I of Castile from 1496 to her marriage, and was appointed ''

'' to her niece

in 1506. She spent a great deal of her life at the court of the Netherlands, where she was an important and leading figure. In parallel, she ruled in her domains, where she was known for her appreciation of arts and architecture as well as for the seminary (from 1532 a retirement home) she founded in 1520. She was also known as a pious Catholic and opposition toward the Protestant reformation, issued repression of "heretic" books, such as the work of

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' w ...

, and allowed the Jesuits to establish in Culemborg.Peter G. Bietenholz & Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volym 1–3 After the death of her second spouse, she retired permanently to rule Culemborg.

References

Sources

Website van het Penitentiair Schoolcentrum Hoogstraten

Website ''Mens & Dier in Steen & Brons''
* Peter G. Bietenholz & Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volym 1–3

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