Barbe de Nettine

Barbe Louise de Nettine, née Stoupy (1706-1775), was a politically influential banker in the Austrian Netherlands.

She married the banker Matthias Nettine, and inherited his bank as a widow in 1749. She supplied the government of the Austrian Netherlands with funds and metal for the manufacture of coins and essentially controlled the revenue and expenditure of both the Governor-General and Carl von Cobenzl, who was Ministre plenipotentiaire in 1753-1770. As such, she acquired influence over the financial government policy, and regularly met with Cobenzl who consulted her in all such decisions. She successfully prevented the government plans of a national bank in Brussels. She was ennobled as vicomtesse de Nettine in 1758, and married her daughters into the nobility. She was the grandmother of the composer Josephine-Rosalie de Walckiers.

References

Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly: Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe
Hervé Hasquin: Joseph II, catholique anticlérical et réformateur impatient, 1741-1790

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