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Around 1509, this was what happened to Gerrit van Assendelft, a young nobleman, the scion of a rich family from The Hague and a student at the University of Orl\u00e9ans. Events did not turn out well for him. Gerrit was forced by Catherina le Chasseur\u2019s father to marry his daughter. Worse still, long after she had settled in The Hague, Catherina fell into criminal company. This was a total disaster for Gerrit, at that time president of the Court of Holland. How did it all end?<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;106591&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>A counterfeiter in prison<\/h3>\n<p>In 1541, Catharina le Chasseur was locked up in the Prison Gate. As a nobleman\u2019s wife, she had the right to a luxurious cell such as the Knight\u2019s Chamber or the Women\u2019s Chamber \u2013 but she was nevertheless imprisoned in one of the pitch-black\u00a0gaols. Catherina had gone much too far. After the couple had come to The Hague from France in 1509, Gerrit had refused to live with his wife. Only in 1532 were the two officially separated by law. Catharina received an allowance and moved, along with her chaplain, two ladies\u2019 maids and a page, to Nieuwstraat in The Hague. It was there that she started out along the wrong path. With two servants from France, the chaplain started to mint false coins. Their forgery was only discovered nine years later.<\/p>\n<h3>Killed with water<\/h3>\n<p>Whilst Catherina and her maidservant had to wait in gaol, the staff of the Court of Holland investigated the forged coins. It quickly became clear that they had been tampered with. 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