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.

[1] After her mother's death in 1582, her French grandfather asked for Charlotte Flandrina to stay with him.

Croix in Poitiers, and became a nun in 1595, succeeding her aunt as abbess in 1605.

[2] She spent her life in the convent, tending to religion and religious charity.

17th-century illustration of Charlotte Flandrina