Barbe Louise de Nettine

Barbe Louise de Nettine, née Stoupy 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 to the manufacture of coins and essentially controlled the revenue and expenditure of both the Governor-General and Carl von Cobenzl, who were Ministre plenipontentiare 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 i Brussels. She was ennobled vicomtesse de Nettine in 1758, and married her daughters in to the nobility. She was the grandmother of the composer Josephine-Rosalie de Walckiers.