Frank van Borselen

Frank van Borselen (of Borsele) (death in 1470 or 1471), was lord of Voorne, Zealand and Maartensdijk, governor of Holland and Zealand for the counts of Holland. He was it for Philippe the Good after Jacqueline of Bavaria had transmitted the regency of its grounds to this last. The countess being installed with Goes in Zealand, he became her “geôlier” charged by the duke supervising it with.

However, Philippe the Good having learned that they had married secretly (1432), it entered in disgrace. The countess (who had promised not remarier without the agreement of the Duc of Burgundy) would have abdicated in favor of the duke of Burgundy under the threat of a prolonged imprisonment (even of an execution for treason) of its fourth husband. Relegated in the north of the county of Holland to Teilingen, the couple seems to be torn quickly. After the death of Jacqueline in 1436, Frank van Borselen (or of Borsele) still lived in Teilingen where he died in 1470. It seems to be returned in grace near the duke of Burgundy since it became in 1445 knight of the Ordre of the Golden Fleece. It would never have been remarié.

At the beginning of their marriage, the new husbands lived with the family castle of van Borselen with Voorne (Oostvoorne) during a few weeks. Thus the castle was fore-mentioned the castle of Jacqueline (Jacoba Kasteel).

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