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During his father's lifetime, the infant Louis Joseph was known as the Duke of Enghien, (duc d'Enghien). At the age of four, following his father's death in 1740, and his mother's death in 1741, [1] he was placed under the care of his paternal uncle, Louis, Count of Clermont, his father's youngest brother.
The first-known holder of the comital title was Bouchard Ratepilate. The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon. In 1514, Vendôme was made a duchy-peerage. In 1589, the then Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain.
Louis Joseph Xavier, styled duke of Burgundy from birth, was born at the Palace of Versailles on September 13 1751. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the second surviving child and eldest son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony , [ 3 ] and was thus the oldest brother to the future kings Louis XVI , Louis XVIII and Charles X . [ 4 ]
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, often simply called Vendôme (1 July 1654 – 11 June 1712) was a French general and Marshal of France. One of the great generals of his era, he was one of Louis XIV 's most successful commanders in the War of the Grand Alliance and War of the Spanish Succession .
Louis Joseph de Bourbon-Vendôme, 3rd Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712). He was appointed Marshal of France. He married Marie Anne de Condé (1678–1718), a daughter of Henri III Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé and granddaughter of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (the Grand Condé). They had no children.
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736–1818), member of the House of Bourbon; Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (1650–1671), Prince of Lorraine; Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712), French general and Marshal of France; Louis Joseph Bahin (1813–1857), American painter in the Antebellum South; Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712–1759 ...
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Charlotte married Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé in a ceremony at the Palace of Versailles on 3 May 1753. Charlotte's father reportedly gave a dowry of 20 million livres . [ 2 ] Louis Joseph had been the prince de Condé since 1740 when at the age of four he lost his father, Louis Henri, Prince de Condé .