Henri I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (29 December 1552 – 5 March 1588) was a French Prince du Sang and

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general like his more prominent father, Louis I, Prince of Condé.

Life

Henri was the eldest son of Louis I de Bourbon and Eléanor de Roye, daughter and heiress of Charles de Roye, Count of Roucy. Of the eight children in his family, he and his brother François, Prince of Conti, were the only ones to have children. Blason Louis Ier prince de Condé (1530 † 1569)

Blason Louis Ier prince de Condé (1530 † 1569)

Following the death of his father, Louis, at the

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introduced Henri and her own son, Henry of Navarre, as pages to

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. Since both were ''princes of the blood'', this act gave the Huguenot cause legitimacy. At the

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on 3 October 1569, Henri was wounded in the face and was forced to retreat. Attending the wedding of Henry of Navarre and the subsequent massacre of Protestants, Henri was forced to convert to Catholicism, face death or life imprisonment. In his escape from Paris, Henri was joined by Theodore Beza, who published his ''Du droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets'' in Germany. By 1573 the Huguenot cause had made some political gains in the

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, consequently Henri was assigned "governor general and protector". Following the Peace of Monsieur, he was restored to his governorship of Picardy. During the sixth war of religion, he commanded the forces that captured Brouage and allowed for English aid for the Huguenots. And, it would be Henri, angered by Catholic resistance to his governorship of Picardy, who started the seventh war of religion by seizing the town of

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in November 1579. In 1588, Henri died at Saint-Jean-d'Angély after a brief illness.

Marriages

He married twice, first to his cousin,

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. With Marie, Henri had one child: * Catherine (1574–1595), Marquise d'Isles Secondly, Henri married his

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, Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille (1568–1629), daughter of

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. They had at least two children: *

Éléonore de Bourbon Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé (30 April 1587 – 20 January 1619) was the daughter of Henri I de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte Catherine de la Tremoille. Éléonore's father was the first cousin of King Henry IV of France. She was ...

(1587–1619), married in 1606 to

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. * Henri II, Prince of Condé (1588–1646)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Henri 01 de Bourbon, Prince de Conde 1552 births 1588 deaths People from La Ferté-sous-Jouarre House of Bourbon-Condé Huguenots French people of the French Wars of Religion Princes of Condé 16th-century peers of France