Lambertine de Ligne (1593–1651) was a noblewoman and heiress from the Habsburg Netherlands.
Biography Lambertine was born on 22 June 1593, the third daughter and fifth child of Lamoral, Count of Ligne and Anne-Marie de Melun, Marquise de Roubaix.L. A. J. Petit, "Notice historique de Beloeil", Annales du Cercle Archéologique de Mons, 7 (1867), pp. 329-330. She was raised at the Brussels court of Archduke Albert and Infanta Isabella, and throughout her life expressed an admiration for the Infanta Isabella's virtues.Émile Longin, "Anne de Gonzague en Franche-Comté (1641)", Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation du Doubs, 8th ser., vol. 2 (1907), p. 428. At Internet Archive. In 1609 she married Philibert de la Baume, Marquis of Saint-Martin-le-Châtel, with whom she had a daughter. She was widowed in 1613, when her husband died in a hunting accident. In 1615 she married again, to Christopher of East Frisia, a younger son of Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, and the Swedish princess Katarina Vasa. As lady of Villers she was patroness of the parish church and in 1617 stood godmother to its new bell.Z. Piérart, Recherches historiques sur Maubeuge et son canton, et les communes limitrophes (Maubeuge, 1851), p. 27. On Google Books.
She had no children with her second husband, who died in 1636 leaving her as his sole legatee.Le Mausolée de la Toison d'or, ou Les tombeaux des chefs et des chevaliers du noble ordre de la Toison d'Or (Amsterdam and Brussels, 1689), pp. 238-239. On Google Books. On 7 February 1640 she married her first husband's brother, Jean-Baptiste de la Baume, governor of Franche-Comté, with a special dispensation from Pope Urban VIII to allow their union despite their prior relationship by marriage. This seems to have been part of a dynastic policy to tighten links between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Franche-Comté.Birgit Houben, "'Vous estez les premiers vassaux que j'aye et que j'aime le plus.' Burgundians in the Brussels Courts of the Widowed Isabella and of the Cardinal-Infante Don Ferdinand (1621–1641)", in A Constellation of Courts: The Courts and Households of Habsburg Europe, 1555–1665, edited by René Vermeir, Dries Raeymaekers and José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (Leuven University Press, 2014), p. 253. She died on 14 February 1651 and was buried alongside her second husband in Spontin.Corneille Stroobant, "Notice généalogique sur les Vicomtes de Leyde", Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, vol. 7 (1850), p. 216. Although she had been married three times, she had produced no male heirs. Her nephews were still disputing her inheritance in the Great Council of Mechelen as late as 1691.Arthur Gaillard, Inventaire des mémoriaux du Grand Conseil de Malines, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1903), no. 1715. At Internet Archive.
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