[2] Anna's father Wolfert VI of Borselen (d. 1487) first married Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan (d. 1465) in 1444.

[3] On 17 June 1468 Wolfert remarried to Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier (1449–1478), daughter of Louis I, Count of Montpensier.

The unpredictable course of nature then made the Veerse Gat steadily deeper, creating a superior roadstead before Veere while competing harbors were lost.

[6] Veere developed into a small city, but the famous trade with Scotland would blossom after Anna's reign.

On the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482, Philip had become a member of a four men tutelage council that Flanders imposed on Maximilian of Austria.

[11] In 1499 and 1501 Erasmus visited Tournehem Castle, owned by Anna's father in law Anthony, bastard of Burgundy who lived till 1504.

[12] In January 1500 Erasmus wrote an overly flattering letter to Anna van Borselen, hoping for financial support.

[15] Anna's problem was that her father had acquired a lot of possessions, but had also accumulated a substantial debt.

Adolf would quickly gain the respect and esteem of the sovereigns of the Burgundian Netherlands, gradually diminishing Anna's role.

[18] In 1505 a delegation from Veere visited James IV of Scotland in Adolf's name, but no decisive results were obtained.

Anna fled to Domburg, but when she came back to Zandenburg she contracted the disease, and died on 8 December 1518.

With Philip of Burgundy-Beveren Anna had:[23] Henri Obreen noted that the late 18th-century work of Jacobus Ermerins about the Van Borselen family was of value with regard to the time that Anna van Borselen lived.