Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau

Charlotte Flandrina ( born August 18, 1579 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 William I of Orange- Nassau and his third wife, Charlotte de Bourbon - Montpensier.

1581 had her mother again reconciled with her ​​father, but was passed the following year. Charlotte Flandrina then became her grandfather Ludwig III. of Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier (1513-1582) handed over to the care to France. A year later he also died, and the princess came into the care of Jeanne de Chabot, Abbess of Le Paraclete, a cousin of her mother. Finally Flandrina came at the behest of King Henry III. to their Catholic Aunt Joan of Bourbon (1541-1624), Abbess of Jouarre. Charlotte Flandrina was, despite resistance from their relatives Protestant, Catholic and entered the convent in 1593.

1595 was the suffering from deafness, Charlotte Flandrina United prioress and abbess of the Benedictine monastery in 1605 Saint- Croix. She remained in close contact with their siblings, but especially to their strict Protestant sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte Flandrika Brabantina, they kept trying to persuade them to conversion.