Maria van Schooten

Maria van Schooten
Kenau leading a group of 300 women in defense of Haarlem, by Barend Wijnveld and J. H. Egenberger, 1854
Born	1555
Died	1573
Allegiance	Dutch
Battles/wars	Siege of Haarlem

Maria van Schooten (1555–1573) was a Dutch heroine from the Eighty Years' War. She died from the injuries she received after having participated in the defense during the Siege of Haarlem and was given a public funeral with full military honors. She is believed to have been one of the women led by Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, a legendary heroine who helped defend Haarlem against the Spanish invaders.

Two centuries after her brief life, van Schooten was included in the Vaderlandsch woordenboek, the national dictionary started by bookseller Jacobus Kok in 1780.

References

DVN, een project van Huygens ING en OGC (UU). Bronvermelding: Els Kloek, Schooten, Maria van, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/schooten [13/01/2014 ]

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