Henri I, Prince of Condé
Template:Short description Template:Infobox royalty Henri de Bourbon, 2nd 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.
Life
Henri was the eldest son of Louis de Bourbon and Eléanor de Roye, daughter and heiress of Charles de Roye, Count of Roucy.Template:Sfn Of the eight children in his family, he and his brother François, Prince of Conti, were the only ones to have children.
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Following the death of his father, Louis, at the Battle of Jarnac, Jeanne d'Albret introduced Henri and her own son, Henry of Navarre, as pages to Admiral Coligny.Template:Sfn Since both were princes of the blood, this act gave the Huguenot cause legitimacy.Template:Sfn
At the Battle of Moncontour on 3 October 1569, Henri was wounded in the face and was forced to retreat.Template:Sfn Attending the wedding of Henry of Navarre and the subsequent massacre of Protestants, Henri was forced to convert to Catholicism, face death or life imprisonment.Template:Sfn In his escape from Paris, Henri was joined by Theodore Beza, who published his Du droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets in Germany.Template:Sfn
By 1573 the Huguenot cause had made some political gains in the Midi, consequently Henri was assigned "governor general and protector".Template:Sfn Following the Peace of Monsieur, he was restored to his governorship of Picardy.Template:Sfn During the sixth war of religion, he commanded the forces that captured Brouage and allowed English aid for the Huguenots.Template:Sfn And, it would be Henri, angered by Catholic resistance to his governorship of Picardy, who started the seventh war of religion by seizing the town of La Fère in November 1579.Template:Sfn
In 1588, Henri died at Saint-Jean-d'Angély after a brief illness.Template:Sfn
Marriages
He married twice, first to his cousin, Marie of Cleves.Template:Sfn With Marie, Henri had one child:
- Catherine (30 October 1574 – 30 December 1595), Marquise of Isles, never married.
Secondly, Henri married his second cousin once removed, Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille (1568–1629),Template:Sfn daughter of Louis III de La Trémoille. They had at least two children:
- Éléonore de Bourbon (1587–1619), married in 1606 to Philip William, Prince of Orange.
- Henri II, Prince of Condé (1588–1646)Template:Sfn
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