Noble family House of Bourbon | Name Henri, of | |
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Spouse(s) Marie of Cleves
Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille Father Louis I, Prince of Conde Mother Eleanor de Roucy de Roye Born 29 December 1552
La Ferte-sous-Jouarre ( 1552-12-29 ) Died 5 March 1588(1588-03-05) (aged 35)
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Henri de Bourbon-Condé (Henry I, Prince of Condé; 29 December 1552 – 5 March 1588) was a French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general like his more prominent father, Louis I, Prince of Condé.
Henri was the eldest son of Louis of Bourbon-Condé and Eléanor de Roucy de Roye. Of the eight children in his family, he and his brother François, Prince of Conti were the only ones to have issue. He had a younger half-brother, Charles, Count of Soissons, from his father's second marriage. His first cousin became King Henry IV of France.
He married twice, first to his cousin, Marie of Cleves. Her mother was his father's sister. Marie was a great beauty, and supposedly King Henry III of France had plans to break up their marriage in order to marry her himself, but she died of complications from childbirth before he could do so. With Marie, Henri had one child:
Secondly, Henri married his second cousin once removed, Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille (1568–1629), daughter of Louis III de La Trémoille and granddaughter of Anne de Montmorency. They had at least two children: