Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency

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Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
Roman Catholicism

Charlotte Marguerite de

Henri de Bourbon. She almost became a mistress of Henry IV of France, but her husband escaped with her after the wedding and did not return to France until after King Henry's death.[1]

Biography

The daughter of Henri de Montmorency and his second wife,

Louise de Budos,[2] Charlotte lost her mother before she was five years of age. She was brought up under the care of her aunt Charlotte, widow of Charles, Duke d'Angoulême.[3]

In 1609, fifteen-year-old Charlotte-Marguerite wed the Prince of Condé in a glittering ceremony.[4]

The king had arranged Charlotte's marriage to Condé for his own convenience, in order to sleep with her himself when he pleased. To escape from this predicament, the couple fled to Brussels. The king was enraged and threatened to march into Flanders with an army unless the Habsburg governors returned Condé and his wife at once. At the time, he was also threatening war with the Habsburgs over the succession to the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, so historians are unsure how crucial in itself Charlotte's return was as a reason for war. Condé continued to provoke Henry from Flanders. When asked to drink to the queen of France, he replied that there seemed to be more than one queen of France, maybe as many as four or five.[5]

Along with many other French nobles, her husband bitterly opposed the rule of

Anne Geneviève was conceived and born three years later, in 1619.[6]

In 1632, Charlotte-Marguerite's only brother,

Henri, Duke de Montmorency was executed for intriguing against Cardinal Richelieu.[7] The title passed to her. She was buried at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques, a Carmelite convent in Paris
.

Children

Arms as Princess de Condé

Her children with the Prince de Condé were:

  1. Anne Genevieve (1619-1679); married Henri d'Orléans, Duke de Longueville.[6]
  2. Louis, Prince of Condé, "le Grand Condé" (1621-1686); married Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé.
  3. Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629-1666); married Anne Marie Martinozzi.

Ancestry

See also

  • List of Princesses of Condé

References

  1. ^ Architectural record, Volume 16. Chantily Castle. 1904. p. 509.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Pardoe, Julia. The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France. James Pott and Company, 1902, p. 389.
  3. ISBN 1146580428
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  4. ISBN 0060585447
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  5. ^ Buisseret, 173–74.
  6. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Longueville, Anne Genevieve, Duchesse de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 986.
  7. ^ Fetridge, William Pembroke (1878). The American Travellers' Guides. Vol. 17, Part 1. France. p. 421.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
Born: 11 May 1594 Died: 2 December 1650
Preceded by
Henri II
 Duchesse de Montmorency
1632-1650 		Succeeded by

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