Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
Henri II d'Orléans | |
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Prince of Neuchâtel | |
| In office 1595–1663 | |
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| Born | 6 April 1595 |
| Died | 11 May 1663 |
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Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville or Henri de Valois-Longueville (6 April 1595 – 11 May 1663), a legitimated prince of France (of royal descent) and
Fronde.[a]
Life
He was the only son of
Gonzaga
family.
As an opponent of
Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, obtaining in exchange that of Normandy.[5] In the summer of 1620, he joined the revolt of Marie de Medici,[6]
but the Parliament of Rouen and the city of Dieppe, which he besieged, remained loyal to the king. Longueville was suspended from his duties for a few months.
Longueville headed the French delegation in the talks that led to the
Thirty Years War (1648).[7] During the peace proceedings, his insistence on being called Altesse, added to the conflict regarding ambassadorial titles.[8]
In his role as sovereign
Swiss Confederacy
.
In 1642 he married
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, leader of the aristocratic party in the Fronde. After the Peace of Rueil (11 March 1649) had ended the first phase of the civil war, Mazarin's sudden arrest of the Grand Condé, his brother the prince de Conti and their brother-in-law the duc de Longueville, on 14 January 1650 precipitated the next phase of the Fronde, the Fronde des nobles.[9]
Family
He married his first wife Louise de Bourbon in Paris on 10 April 1617,[1] their children were:
- Marie (1625–1707), who married Henri II, Duke of Nemours[1]
- Louise (1626–1628)
- X (1634–1634)
After his first wife's death, he married Anne Geneviève de Bourbon in 1642, their children were:
- Charlotte Louise, Mademoiselle de Dunois (1644–1645)[1]
- Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (1646–1694)[2]
- Marie Gabrielle (1646–1650)[1]
- Charles Paris d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (1649–1672).[2]
Notes
- duc d'Estouteville and of Coulommiers, sovereign prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, prince de Châtellaillon, comte de Dunois.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hillman 2014, p. 8.
- ^ a b c d Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. xii.
- ^ d'Aubigné 2007, p. 367.
- ^ Lord 1903, p. 135.
- ^ Kettering 2008, p. 99.
- ^ Cook & Broadhead 2006, p. 22.
- ^ Croxton 2013, p. 107.
- ^ May 2017, p. 87.
- ^ Mousnier 1970, p. 497-498.
Sources
- d'Aubigné, Agrippa (2007). Fanlo, Jean-Raymond; Ferrer, Véronique; Fragonard, Marie-Madeleine; Schrenck, Gilbert (eds.). Œuvres complètes: Écrits politiques. Champion.
- Cook, Chris; Broadhead, Philip (2006). The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763. Routledge.
- Croxton, Derek (2013). Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. Springer.
- Hillman, Jennifer (2014). Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France. Routledge.
- Kettering, Sharon (2008). Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII: The Career of Charles D'Albert, Duc de Luynes (1578-1621). Manchester University Press.
- Lord, Arthur Power (1903). The Regency of Marie de Médicis: A Study of French History from 1610 to 1616. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
- May, Niels F. (2017). "Stage sovereignty or aristocratic values? Diplomatic ceremonial at the Westphalian peace negotiations (1643-1648)". In Sowerby, Tracey A.; Hennings, Jan (eds.). Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800. Routledge.
- Mousnier, R. (1970). "French Institutions and Society 1610-61". The New Cambridge Modern History. Vol. 4, The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War. Cambridge University Press.
- Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII. Cambridge at the University Press.
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