Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême

Charles de Valois
Duke of Angoulême
Charles de Valois, drawing by Daniel Dumonstier.
Born	28 April 1573 Château de Fayet, Dauphiné, France
Died	24 September 1650(1650-09-24) (aged 77)
Spouse	Charlotte de Montmorency ​ ​ (m. 1591⁠–⁠1636)​ Françoise de Narbonne ​ ​ (m. 1644⁠–⁠1650)​
Issue	Henri de Valois Louis-Emmanuel d'Angoulême François de Valois
Valois-Angoulême
Father	Charles IX of France
Mother	Marie Touchet

Charles de Valois (28 April 1573 – 24 September 1650) was an

Charles de Valois was born at the Château de Fayet in Dauphiné in 1573, the illegitimate son of Charles IX and Marie Touchet.^[1] His father, died the following year, commended him to the care and favour of Henry III, who faithfully fulfilled the charge.^[2][3] His mother then married François de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues.

Charles de Valois was carefully educated and was inducted into the

Following Henry III's assassination, Charles was commended to the good-will of his successor Henry IV.^[6] Under Henry IV he was made colonel of horse, and in that capacity commanded a squadron at the Battle of Ivry.^[7]

In 1601, Charles engaged in the conspiracy formed by the Dukes of

• Mémoires, from the assassination of Henri III. to the battle of Arques (1589–1593) published at Paris by Boneau, and reprinted by Buchon in his Choix de chroniques (1836) and by Petitot in his Mémoires (1st series, vol. xliv.)[16]
• Les Harangues, prononcées en assemblée de MM. les princes protestants d'Allemagne, par Monseigneur le duc d' Angoulême (1620)^[16]
• a translation of a Spanish work by Diego de Torres.^[16]
• La générale et fidèle Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé en l'Isle de Ré, envoyée par le Roy à la Royne sa mère (Paris, 1624).^[17]

Angoulême died on 24 September 1650.

Personal life

In 1591 he obtained a dispensation from the vows of the Order of Malta, and married Charlotte, daughter of

• Henri
• Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, Count d'Alais, who succeeded his father as duke of Angoulême and was colonel-general of light cavalry and governor of Provence;^[19] his daughter Marie Françoise de Valois married Louis, Duke of Joyeuse;
• François, who died in 1622.^[16]

Charles' first wife died in 1636, and in 1644 he married Françoise de Narbonne, daughter of Charles, baron of Mareuil. They had no children and survived her husband until 1713.^[16]

References

Sources

• Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "Charles de Valois, Duke of Angouleme" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 46
• Bergin, Joseph (1996), The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589–1661, Yale University Press
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• Knecht, Robert J. (2016). Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89. Routledge.
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• Taylor, William Cooke (1842), Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth: Calvin and the Church of Geneva, London: Richard Bentley
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Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Angoulême, Charles de Valois, Duke of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 41.