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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 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.
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 ...
He was godfather to Louis de Bourbon, Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon. He is sometimes called Francois-Louis, with Vendome Latinised as "Vendocimo". He was the nephew of Cardinal Philippe de Luxembourg (1495) and Charles II of Bourbon (1476). He was the uncle of Cardinal Charles II of Bourbon (1548), and great-uncle of Cardinal Charles III of ...
Louis' three children (all likely to have been born from a mistress) were: Pierre de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1464–1529) [3] Louis de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1465–1500) Jacques de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1466–1537) Louis' eldest son, Pierre, founded the Bourbon-Busset family.
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 ...
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In 1424, he married Jeanne de Laval (d. 1468), daughter of Guy XIII, Count of Laval and Anne de Laval, at Rennes. [5] Their children were: Catherine de Bourbon (b. 1425) Gabrielle de Bourbon (b. 1426) John VIII, Count of Vendôme (1425–1477) [6] He also had an illegitimate son, fathered with the Englishwoman, Sybil Bostum, during his captivity: