Background
Maria Belgica was born and raised in Delft. She must have been approximately 27-years-old when she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, with her mother and sisters.
Maria Belgica was born and raised in Delft. She must have been approximately 27-years-old when she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, with her mother and sisters.
Her mother died soon after Maria Belgica returned to her. Maria Belgica married a colonel, Baron Croll, who originally came from Heidelberg, Germany, but had come to Geneva in the service of the Margrave of Baden-Durlach. Croll was later given the title of Baron of Prangrins.
The marriage was not a happy one, and a divorce was first approved and later rescinded by the government of Bern.
Croll, however, was murdered in 1640 in Venice before any further decisions had been made. Maria Belgica died in Geneva in 1647.
She was buried in the same chapel as her mother.