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Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier (10 June 1513 – 23 September 1582) [1] was the second Duke of Montpensier, a French Prince of the Blood, military commander and governor. He began his military career during the Italian Wars, and in 1557 was captured after the disastrous battle of Saint-Quentin .
Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme (1493-1557), son of Francis de Bourbon, Count of Vendome and Marie of Luxembourg; Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons (1604 – 1641), son of Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons and Anne de Montafié; Louis, Grand Condé (1621 – 1686), a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of ...
Louis de Bourbon (1405 – May 1486) was the third son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne. [1] He was Count of Montpensier , Clermont-en-Auvergne and Sancerre and Dauphin of Auvergne and was a younger brother of Charles I of Bourbon .
Louis II de Bourbon, comte de Montpensier (1483 – 14 August 1501) was a French prince du sang and military commander during the early Italian Wars of the French king Louis XII. The eldest son of Gilbert de Bourbon and Clara Gonzaga , Louis inherited the title of comte de Montpensier (count of Montpensier) upon the death of his father in 1496.
He was the third son of François de Bourbon and Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of St. Pol, he was raised largely in the castle of La Fere, where his mother had come to reside after being widowed. He was godfather to Louis de Bourbon, Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon. He is sometimes called Francois-Louis, with Vendome Latinised as "Vendocimo".
Louis was the son of Peter de Bourbon [1] and Isabella de Valois. [2] His mother was the sister to King Philip VI of France. He inherited the duchy after his father Duke Peter I died at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. [3] In 1390, Louis launched the Barbary Crusade against the Hafsids of Tunis, in conjunction with the Genoese.
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Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé (7 May 1530 – 13 March 1569) was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative political unimportance during the reign of Henri II , Condé's support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in the conspiracy of ...