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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] BiographyAfter 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
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Charlotte Flandrina: biography on Worldroots
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