Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti

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Armand de Bourbon
Henri II, Prince of Condé
MotherCharlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
SignatureArmand de Bourbon's signature

Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (11 October 1629 – 26 February 1666), was a French nobleman, the younger son of

Prince du Sang
.

Early life

Coat-of-arms
for Armand, Prince of Conti.

The title of

Henri II de Montmorency
.

Conti was considered intelligent but due to a slight deformity and having a weak constitution

Saint Denis,[2] he did not take orders
.

He was described as "a cypher" by a contemporary.[3] and seen as debauched. Contis relationship with brother was not good and he was despised by the Grand Conde. Conti was a patron of Moliere and La Fontaine.

He played a conspicuous part in the intrigues and fighting of the

Fronde, became in 1648 commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and in 1650 was with his brother (Condé) and brother-in-law (Longueville) imprisoned at Vincennes.[4]

Life in prison

Said to be "mystic" and "full of strange ideas", Conti turned slightly mad while in prison.[citation needed] (this might have been a symtom of the syphilis wich would lead to his death) Having a secret passion for his sister the Duchess of Longueville, he invented tricks to make her notice him. He would later like her become a fervent jansenist.[5][6] He tried alchemy and potions for some time and eventually bruised himself with a spatula. This episode was ultimately fortunate for him because he could no longer be refused external help from physicians, some of whom would pass letters and pleas to the outside world which sped up his eventual release.

Later life

Released when

François Louis
.

He took command of the army, which in 1654, invaded Spain through Catalonia, where he captured three towns from the Spanish. He afterwards led the French forces in Italy, but after his defeat before Alessandria in 1657, he retired to Languedoc, where he devoted himself to study and mysticism until his death.[7]

At

Louis XIV, but afterwards, when writing a treatise against the stage entitled, Traité de la comédie et des spectacles selon les traditions de l'Église (Paris, 1667), he charged the dramatist with keeping a school of atheism. Conti also wrote Lettres sur la grâce, and Du devoir des grands et des devoirs des gouverneurs de province.[7]

Conti died on 26 February 1666 at Pézenas at the Château de la Grange-des - Prés in Languedoc, France likely from syphilis.[8]

Issue

Armand married Anne Marie Martinozzi, the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini, elder sister of Cardinal Mazarin.[9] They had the following children:

  1. Louis de Bourbon (1658), died in infancy.
  2. Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661–1685), married Marie Anne de Bourbon, the eldest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV and his mistress, Louise de La Vallière, and died childless.
  3. Henri Jules, Prince of Condé
    (Armand's nephew), and had issue.

Ancestry

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-7524-1256-7
    .
  2. ISBN 9780415147279
    .
  3. ^ Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de (1774). Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: Containing the Particulars of His Own Life, with the Most Secret Transactions at the French Court [during the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin] and the Civil Wars [occasioned by It. To which are Added Some Other Pieces. Evans. p. 192.
  4. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conti, Princes of s.v. Armand de Bourbon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 28.
  5. ISBN 978-0-226-47320-8
    .
  6. ^ Marni, Archimede. Allegory in the French Heroic Poem of the Seventeenth Century. Ardent Media.
  7. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conti, Princes of s.v. Armand de Bourbon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 28.
  8. ISBN 978-0-521-01238-6
    .
  9. ^ Hillman 2016, p. 10.

Sources

  • Hillman, Jennifer (2016). Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France. Routledge.


Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
Born: 11 October 1629 Died: 26 February 1666
French royalty
Preceded by
François de Bourbon
Prince de Conti

1629–1666 		Succeeded by
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Abbot of Cluny
1642–1654 		Succeeded by
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