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Anna Margaretha van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk

Biography


Birth: 1713
Death: 1803

Daughter of Francis van Aerssen van Sommelsdyck (1660-1740), Admiral, a first cousin of Boswell's grandfather, James, and Maria van Aerssen van Wernhout. Sister of Heer van Sommelsdyck. Married (1730) to Philippe de Jouccourt (b. ca. 1709). Married (1742) to Aarnoud Joost van der Duyn.

Also known as

  • Baroness Duyn
  • Madame Maasdam
  • Vrouwe van Sommel

Life with James Boswell

Boswell met her on December 28, 1763, possibly at Baron Sporck's in The Hague. In a memo he wrote that Madame Maasdam told you how la Comtesse was taken to Utrecht, as there were strange suspicions. "She is a little galante, but do not whisper it".1

Notes

Note 1: The Comtesse in mention was probably the Countess of Nassau Beverweerd.


Mentioned in

Anna Margaretha van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk is mentioned in:

  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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