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Margaret Elter was educated in a convent in Mons, Hainaut, in the Low Countries.
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In 1547 she fled for religious reasons to Basel, where she joined the household of Jacques de Bourgogne, Lord of Falais. A daughter was born in Cambridge the following year. A second daughter was born at Strasbourg in 1551.
The orphans, Margarita and Beatriz, became wards of the city.
Philip Melanchthon offered to take one of them into his home in Wittenberg, but the city refused. In July 1555, Anna Elter married the cavalry officer Guillaume Rabot de Salène, in a match arranged by the Elector Palatine.
By these means they succeeded in their goal of keeping the children out of the hands of Catholic relatives in Spain.
