- Charlotte of Bourbon
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Charlotte Princess of Orange Spouse William the Silent Issue Louise Juliana, Electress Palatine
Elisabeth, Duchess of Bouillon
Catharina Belgica, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg
Charlotte Flandrina, Duchess of La Trémoille
Charlotte Brabantina
Emilia Antwerpiana, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken-LandsbergFather Louis de Bourbon Mother Jacqueline de Longwy Born 1546/1547 Died 5 May 1582 Charlotte of Bourbon (1546/1547 – 5 May 1582), was the fourth daughter of Louis, Duke of Montpensier and Jacqueline de Longwy, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine (died 28 August 1561). She was the third wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish.
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Her paternal grandparents were Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon and Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. Her maternal grandparents were John IV de Longwy, Baron of Pagny, and Jeanne of Angoulême, illegitimate half-sister of King Francis I of France.
Her mother, Jacqueline, was a believer in the Reformed doctrines, and she secretly taught them to her children. Charlotte's father, finding this out, determined to thwart his wife's influence by sending three of his daughters to convents. Charlotte was then only thirteen years old and begged to be allowed to stay with her mother, who died during the time Charlotte was in the convent. [1] Her father, influential in the court of Catherine de' Medici, placed her in the royal convent of Jouarre, near Meaux, to be raised as a nun. When she was professed as a nun at the age of thirteen, she made a formal written protest.[2] The young Charlotte shocked both her family and the royal court by escaping the convent in 1572, announcing her conversion to Calvinism and, on the advice of Jeanne d'Albret, fleeing to the Palatinate, well beyond her parents' reach.[3]
On 24 June 1575 Charlotte married the Protestant William, Prince of Orange, and had six daughters, including Louise Juliana of Nassau, from whom descended the House of Hanover.
Charlotte allegedly died from exhaustion while trying to nurse her husband after an assassination attempt in 1582.[citation needed]Following her death, William married on 24 April 1583, his fourth and last wife, Louise de Coligny, by whom he had a son Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.
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Ancestry
Ancestors of Charlotte of Bourbon 16. Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme 8. Jean de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme 17. Jeanne de Laval 4. Louis de Bourbon, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon 18. Louis de Beauvau, Seneschal of Anjou 9. Isabelle de Beauvau 19. Marguerite de Chambley 2. Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier 20. Louis de Bourbon, Count of Montpensier 10. Gilbert de Bourbon, Count of Montpensier 21. Jeanne d'Auvergne 5. Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier 22. Federico Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua 11. Clara Gonzaga 23. Duchess Margaret of Bavaria 1. Charlotte de Bourbon 24. Jean de Longvy, Lord of Givry 12. Philippe de Longvy, Lord of Givry 25. Jeanne de Vienne 6. Jean de Longwy 26. Pierre de Bauffremont, Count of Charny 13. Jeanne de Bauffremont, 27. Marie de Bourgogne
Illegitimate daughter of Philip the Good3. Jacqueline de Longwy 28. Louis de France, Duke of Orléans 14. Charles d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême 29. Valentina Visconti 7. Jeanne d'Angoulême, Légitimée d'Angoulême 30. Foucaud de Polignac 15. Antoinette de Polignac 31. Agnès de Chabanais Bibliography
- Blaisdell, Charmarie, ‘Religion, Gender, and Class: Nuns and Authority in Early Modern France’, in Michael Wolfe (ed.), Changing Identities in Early Modern France (London, 1997), pp. 147–168.
- Dalberg-Acton, John Emerich Edward, et al. The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. III, New York: Macmillan Co, 1902. googlebooks.com Accessed July 30, 2007
- Robin, Diana Maury; Larsen, Anne R; Levin, Carole (2007). Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. ABC-CLIO.
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