[1] Utricia Ogle was a daughter of the 'one-eyed Englishman named ridder John Ogley', who had distinguished himself in 1600 at the Battle of Nieuwpoort and had been promoted to colonel in the State service in 1605.

After joining the Utrecht legislature of 1610, John Ogle was appointed governor of the city by Prince Maurits.

When her father sent her to England in 1625, it passed to her younger sister Trajectina (not named after the region, like Utricia, but after the city of Utrecht).

In those years she must also have lived in Paris for some time, because according to Constantijn Huygens she had music lessons there from the harpsichordist Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

[a] She returned to Holland in early 1642, presumably in the retinue of Princess Maria Henrietta Stuart, who had just married William II.

[c][1] Utricia Ogle married the soldier William Swann (died 1678) on 18 December 1645 in the English church of Utrecht.

When the collection came out, the couple was in the middle of a move, so their free copy was sent to Ogle's friend Anna Maria van Schurman, who wrote him a thank-you letter in Latin on her behalf.

[1] In the history of Dutch music and literature, Utricia Ogle lives on above all as the unattainable 'muse' of Constantijn Huygens.

Ban published Latin poems in quick succession about a portrait of Ogle, presumably by the Anglo-Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck.