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. 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.