Florence Marguerite Edler de Roover (1900–1987) was an American medievalist.
[1] Born in Chicago on 15 December 1900,[2] Florence Edler studied Romance languages and medieval history at the University of Chicago, acquiring her doctorate in 1930 with the dissertation "The Silk Trade of Lucca during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries" (published 1930).
In 1936 she married the Belgian economic historian Raymond de Roover, who followed her to the United States.
From 1938 to 1944 she was head of the Department of History at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
[3] After her husband's death in 1972, Edler de Roover moved to Florence, Italy, to continue her research.