Les Aventures des
Bourbon-Condé &
Bourbon-Conti
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The Adventures of the
Bourbon-Condés &
Bourbon-Contis
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Louis I (1530-1569)
Prince de Condé, duc d'Enghien, comte
de Soissons, marquis de Conti
His parents: Charles duc de Vendôme and
Françoise d'Alençon. His brothers and sisters: Marguerite
duchesse de Clèves, Antoine duc de Vendôme, François
comte d'Enghien, Charles cardinal de Rouen, Jean duc d'Estouteville, comte
de Soissons. Of his first marriage with Eléonore de Roye (1535-1564),
he had three sons: Henri duc
de Condé, François
duc de Conti and Charles cardinal de Bourbon. From his second marriage
with Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville (-1601), had a son:
Charles comte
de Soissons. |
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| Year |
Event |
Age |
| 1530 |
Birth |
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| 1547 |
Dead of king François I |
17 |
| 1551 |
Marriage with Eléonore de Roye |
21 |
| 1552 |
First son: Henri I |
22 |
| 1558 |
Second son: François de Conti |
28 |
| 1559 |
Death of king Henri II |
29 |
| 1560 |
Death of king François II |
30 |
| 1560 |
Conjuration of Amboise |
30 |
| 1562 |
Third son: Charles, cardinal de Bourbon |
32 |
| 1562 |
Massacre of the Huguenots at Wassy |
32 |
| 1564 |
Death of Eléonore de Roye |
34 |
| 1565 |
Marriage with Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville |
35 |
| 1566 |
One last son: Charles de Soissons |
36 |
| 1569 |
Killed at Jarnac |
39 |
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| The founder |
ouis de Bourbon was a hunchback. Brought up among Huguenots, he was married
in 1551 to Éléonore de Roye, a Huguenot herself. He served
in Henry II’s armies in the campaigns of 1551-57, but won no favour. On
Henry II’s death in 1559, he came forward as the military leader of the
Huguenots: he needed their backing to become politically known; and they
needed a princely leader more resolute than his brother Anthony of Bourbon,
(father of the future Henri IV) king of Navarre, although Louis’ licentious
way of life didn’t go along with their principles. On the failure of the
Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560, he fled from court. On presenting
himself to Francis II at Orléans in October 1560, he was arrested
and later sentenced to death. The King’s death short after saved him, as
the new regent, Catherine de Médicis, needed him to counterbalance
the Guises, with whom he managed reconciliation.
The war of religion
fter the Peace of Amboise in 1563 he tried to
restrain the Huguenots and collaborated with the government.
His first wife died in 1564, and he married Françoise
d’Orléans, Mlle de Longueville in 1565.
Finally, disappointed in his hope of being made
lieutenant general of the kingdom and alarmed at the government’s dealings
with Spain, he left the court again and led the Huguenots in another attack
on Paris. Defeated in battle at Saint-Denis, he made a skillful withdrawal
and then, reinforced by German mercenaries, went to besiege Chartres. He
signed the Peace of Longjumeau against the will of his friend the Admiral
de Coligny.
Jarnac
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war broke out again in August, he found himself tied down to operations
in western France. He was killed (most certainly assassinated) while fighting
to save Coligny at Jarnac. |
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| Eléonore de Roye |
(1535-1564)
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