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{{Infobox royalty
| name   = Louis Armand I de Bourbon
| image     = Drawn portrait of Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti by an unknown artist.jpg
| caption  = 
| succession = [[Prince of Conti]]
| reign = 26 February 1666 – 9 November 1685
| predecessor = [[Armand, Prince of Conti]]
| successor = [[François Louis, Prince of Conti]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1661|4|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hôtel de Conti (quai Malaquais)]], [[Paris]], France
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1685|11|9|1661|4|30|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Palace of Fontainebleau]], [[Seine-et-Marne]], France
| spouse         = [[Marie Anne de Bourbon]]
| father         = [[Armand, Prince of Conti]]
| mother = [[Anne Marie Martinozzi]]
| issue = 
| house = [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]
}}

'''Louis Armand de Bourbon''' (30 April 1661 &ndash; 9 November 1685) was [[Prince of Conti]] from 1666 to his death. He was the son of [[Armand, Prince of Conti|Armand de Bourbon]] and [[Anne Marie Martinozzi]],{{sfn|Wanner|1975|p=13}} the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and [[Laura Margherita Mazzarini]], elder sister of [[Cardinal Mazarin]]. As a member of the reigning [[House of Bourbon]], he was a [[Prince du Sang]]. He was a son-in-law of King [[Louis XIV of France]], who was his namesake.

==Biography==
Louis Armand was born at the [[Hôtel de Conti (quai Malaquais)]] in [[Paris]], France. In August 1679 he acted as the groom in the proxy marriage where [[Marie Louise of Orléans (1662–1689)|Marie Louise d'Orléans]] married [[Charles II of Spain]]. In 1680 he married [[Marie Anne de Bourbon]], the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV and his first mistress, [[Louise de La Vallière]].{{sfn|Rowlands|2002|p=391}} The bride and groom were respectively thirteen and eighteen years old at the time. Since neither of them had been instructed on what to expect on their first night together, it ended up in disaster, with Marie Anne fleeing in despair and the prince not wanting to share the bed of a woman again.

He served with distinction in [[Flanders]] in 1683, and, against the wish of the King, went to [[Hungary]], where he helped the Imperialists defeat the Turks at Gran in the same year. He died on 9 November 1685 at the [[Palace of Fontainebleau]] from [[smallpox]],{{sfn|Hillman|2016|p=10}} which he contracted from his wife. While she recovered after some time, the Prince succumbed after five days.

Having no descendants, he was succeeded as Prince of Conti by his younger brother, [[François Louis, Prince of Conti|François Louis de Bourbon]] (1664–1709).

==Ancestry==
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| 1 = 1. '''Louis Armand de Bourbon'''
| 2 = 2. [[Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti|Armand, Prince of Conti]]
| 3 = 3. [[Anne Marie Martinozzi]]
| 4 = 4. [[Henri, Prince of Condé (1588–1646)|Henri II, Prince of Condé]]
| 5 = 5. [[Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency]]
| 6 = 6. Girolamo Martinozzi
| 7 = 7. [[Laura Margherita Mazzarini]]
| 8 = 8. [[Henri, Prince of Condé (1552–1588)|Henri I, Prince of Condé]]
| 9 = 9. [[Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille]]
| 10 = 10. [[Henri I de Montmorency|Henri I, duc de Montmorency]]
| 11 = 11. Louise de Budos
| 12 = 12. Vincenzo Martinozzi
| 13 = 13. Margherita [[Marcolini]]
| 14 = 14. [[Pietro Mazzarini]]
| 15 = 15. Ortensia Buffalini
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==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France |first=Jennifer |last=Hillman |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 }}
*{{cite book |title=The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV |first=Guy |last=Rowlands |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 }}
*{{cite book |title=Claude Fleury (1640–1723) as an Educational Historiographer and Thinker |first=Raymond E. |last=Wanner |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |year=1975 }}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Conti, Princes of}}

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  before= [[Armand, Prince of Conti|Armand de Bourbon-Conti, prince de Conti]] |
  title= [[Prince de Conti]] |
  years= 1666&ndash;1685 |
  after= [[François Louis, Prince of Conti|François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti]] }}
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