Charlotte Flandrina of Orange-Nassau

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Charlotte Flandrina of Orange-Nassau, Abbess of St. Croix

Charlotte Flandrina (born August 18, 1579 in Antwerp , † April 16, 1640 in St. Croix ) was a princess of Orange-Nassau and abbess of Sainte-Croix (Poitiers).

Life

Charlotte Flandrina was a daughter of Prince Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau and his third wife Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier .

In 1581, her mother was reconciled with her father, but died the following year. Charlotte Flandrina then became her grandfather Ludwig III. von Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier (1513–1582) transferred to France for care. He died a year later and the princess was taken care of by Jeanne de Chabot, abbess of Le Paraclet , a cousin of her mother. Finally, at the behest of King Henry III , Flandrina arrived . to her Catholic aunt Johanna von Bourbon (1541–1624), abbess of Jouarre. Despite resistance from her Protestant relatives, Charlotte Flandrina became a Catholic and entered the monastery in 1593.

In 1595 , Charlotte Flandrina, suffering from deafness , became Grand Prioress and in 1605 abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Croix. She remained in close contact with her siblings, but above all with her strictly Protestant sisters Elisabeth Flandrika and Charlotte Brabantina , whom she repeatedly tried to persuade to convert .

literature

  • JLJ van Kamp: Nog een tak afstammelingen van Willem de Zwijger . In: De nederlandsche Leeuw . Issue LXXIV, 9 (September 1957)

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personal data
SURNAME Charlotte Flandrina of Orange-Nassau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of Sainte-Croix
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1579
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1640
Place of death St. Croix