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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 ...
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, 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 .
The Murder of the Bishop of Liège is an oil painting on canvas created in 1829 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, showing the murder of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège by William I de La Marck's men during the 15th-century Wars of Liège, as told in chapter 22 of Walter Scott's historical novel Quentin Durward. [2]
Duke of Bourbon (French: Duc de Bourbon) is a title in the peerage of France. It was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont , and Beatrice of Burgundy , heiress of the lordship of Bourbon .
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon [2] (Spanish: Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Manuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú; [3] [4] [5] born 25 April 1974) is the head of the House of Bourbon. Members of his family formerly ruled France and other countries.
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.
On 8 November 1565, in the Château de Vendôme, Françoise married Louis I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, [1] the youngest brother of King Antoine of Navarre and a Huguenot general. This made Francoise the sister-in-law of the powerful Jeanne d'Albret , who was queen regnant of Navarre and the spiritual leader of the Huguenots.