She married his master, the cartographer Jodocus Hondius in 1587 and she ran the family business for several years.
Some of her daughters married cartographers, including one who wed the engraver Johannes Janssonius who later joined the family business.
[5] When Jodocus Hondius returned to Amsterdam in 1593, he set up an engraving workshop and a bookstore and created a business producing globes and the first large maps of the world.
[1] The engraving was printed for the Mercator-Hondius atlas series from 1619 and published in Amsterdam by Henricus Hondius, around 1623.
[6] Colette van den Keere was buried in Amsterdam on 31 December 1629.