Johanna Maria van der Gheynst (also called Jeanne Marie van der Gheynst, Johanna Maria van der Gheenst; c. 1500 - 15 December 1541) was in 1521 for a short time the mistress of the Emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

 and bore him a daughter, Margaret of Parma

Margaret of Parma

Margaret, Duchess of Parma , Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582, was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst...

, who was Governor of the Netherlands

Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

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 from 1559 to 1567 and from 1580 to 1583.

Life

Johanna Maria van der Gheynst was the daughter of the carpet

Carpet

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 manufacturer Gilles Johann van der Gheynst and his wife Johanna van der Caye van Cocambi. Her parents lived at Nukerke near Oudenaarde

Oudenaarde

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. She entered the service of Charles I de Lalaing

Charles I de Lalaing

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, Governor of Oudenaarde and Seigneur of Montigny.

The young Emperor Charles V met the beautiful Johanna, when he visited the castle of the Seigneur of Montigny in autumn 1521. Their short love affair produced a daughter who was named Margaret and put in the care of the Brussels

Brussels

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 family de Douvrin. Charles V did not conceal his liaison with Johanna and in July 1529 he acknowledged Margaret as his daughter. Margaret was to become Governor of the Netherlands.

The Emperor granted Johanna van der Gheynst a modest pension. On 13 October 1525 she married Jean van den Dyke, a jurist

Jurist

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 and member of the audit

Audit

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 office of Brabant

Duchy of Brabant

The Duchy of Brabant was a historical region in the Low Countries. Its territory consisted essentially of the three modern-day Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Antwerp, the Brussels-Capital Region and most of the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant.The Flag of...

. The couple had several children. Johanna died in 1541, her husband on 1 September 1572.