Catharina Herman (died after 1604) was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Years' War.
She was arrested for suspected spying and imprisoned, but in prison, her sex was discovered by a Jesuit, to whom she confided her mission.
When the Jesuit told this to the commander, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, he allowed the couple to be set free.
Catharina Herman was included in the dictionaries Femmes illustres by Hilarion de Coste [fr], Les eloges et les vies des reynes, des princesses, et des dames illustres en pieté, en courage & en doctrine (1647) Groot algemeen historisch, geographisch, genealogisch en oordeelkundig woordenboek (1733) by David van Hoogstraten [nl], a play by Jan Jacob Vereul in 1793, and a novel by J. Honig in 1840.
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