Anna (Van Borsselen) Borsselen Vrouwe van (abt. 1471 - 1518)

Born about 1471 in Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands

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Died 8 Dec 1518 at about age 47 in Kasteel, Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands

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Sources

• Dr Henri Obreen, Het Geslacht Borselen, Nederlandse Leeuw, 1927, page 242. Online: Oudste stam LINK Heren van Brigdamme LINK Heren van Cortgene LINK Heren van Sint Maartensdijk LINK
• Huygens Biography Anna van Borselen

Notes

XIIIa. Anna Van Borsselen Van der Veer was the last ruler of Veer of the old house, married Philip, of Bourgond, an illegitimate son of Count Philip, to whom she had married in 1466 a year before his father's death. On their heirs and descendants the titles of Lord Van der Veer, admiral of Holland and Seeland and First Nobleman of Seeland would be conferred and after them to all who might legally possess the city and the land of Veere.

The passing away of the old rules of Veere was marked by large calamities for the city. In 1510 there was a heavy fire in the northern section of the town; besides many storehouses and salt factories, twenty residences of wealthy merchants with their art collections were burned. The pest of black death visited Veere in 1518 and took many of the best people away. [47] The further history of Veere has to be narrated shortly. Adolf, of Bourgond, became Load of Veere after his mother Anna's death. Under his grandson Maximiliam, of Bourgond, Emperor Charles V, of the German Empire, made Veere with the surrounding ladn a marquisy in 1555. The silver cup given to the city by the Lord in February, 1551, was long thereafter used by every election of city magistrates.

Having no children, his sister Anna's son, Maximiliam, of Henin, got the marquisy after his uncle's death. The young man, who lived abroad and was a spendthrift, sold Veere in 1567 so as to pay some of his enormous debt. The feudal power had shrunk already in those days and in fact he sold not more that a few right upon offices and certain taxes and other incomes. Philip II, King of Spain, and well know tyrant Count of Holland and Lord of the other Netherlands bought the city from him. When after foreswearing of the tyrant in 1581 the States-General of the United Netherlands sold the confiscated goods they gave [48] the right of pre-emption to Willem the Silent, prince of Orange. He bought Veere for 146,000 florins.

After the death of his great grandson Willem III Stadholder of the Netherlands, King of England in 1702 by the division of his goods, rights and titles, the price elect of Prussia Fredrick III and after him Fredrick Wilhelm as I and Fredrick the Great became Marquis of Veer. By the restoration of the house of Orange in the Netherland the Frisian prince Willem IV, of Orange, reclaimed his ancestor's rights on Veere and an agreement was made with Fredrick the Great in 1745 by which the marquisy was rendered to him. His son Willem V lost again all his personal land property in the Netherlands in 1795 and by the restoration of 1815 the old titles were merely revived as "private titles of the sovereign" later of "the constitutional King." Queen Wilhelmina is at present "Lady Van der Veer."

In the times of hereditary succession in rulership and government it was very often the policy of the rulers to marry a daughter [49] of another ruler an to procreate if possible only one son, so as to avoid hereditary complications. For the rest they did as they pleased It was no disgrace to have illegitimate children; they were loved and treated with as much paternal care as the other ones and the question what to do with them did not trouble the father. Seldom they were neglected and in most cases they became prominent citizens. The daughters were usually married to men of some lower social standing, who were very much glorified by the relation to the lord; the sons were usually placed in some public office or magistrate. Paulus Van der Veer was made supreme judge of Veere and its jurisdiction by his father Hendrick, VIIth Lord Van der Veer. He was an eminent and able man, who married a lady of nobility and left a posterity to be proud of.

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Anna was inmiddels, omstreeks 1500, hertrouwd met Lodewijk van Montfoort. Dit huwelijk, tegen de zin van de Bourgondiërs gesloten, bracht haar aan de rand van de armoede, zodat Erasmus tenslotte inzag dat van deze zijde voor hem niets te verwachten was.

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Erfdochter, later vrouwe, van Vere, Vlissingen en Zandenburg. Zie voor haar en haar zusters: E. Poswick, Histoire du comté de Fallais, Luik 1890, blz. 73.

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In 1505 leed kasteel Zandenburg door brand zeer grote schade.