Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon

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Henri
Huguenot
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (titular

Prince of Sedan and a marshal of France
.

Biography

The vicomte de Turenne was born at the castle of

Anne, 1st Duc de Montmorency
.

After the

François, Duke of Alençon (younger brother of kings Charles IX and Henry III
) in 1575.

In 1576 he joined the Protestant party of Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV), negotiating the Peace of Nérac between Protestants and Catholics in 1579. Appointed lieutenant general of Upper Languedoc in 1580, he took part in the siege of Paris in 1590 after the accession of Henry IV to the throne, and conquered Stenay from the Catholic League in 1591.

In 1591 Henry IV married him to Charlotte de La Marck, heiress to the duchy of Bouillon and of the Principality of Sedan.[1] In 1592 Henry IV made him Marshal of France.[1]

After the death of his wife in 1594, he married

two unsuccessful campaigns against Spanish-held Luxemburg.[3][4][5][6]

Biron in 1602, he fled to Geneva the following year and had to accept a French protectorate
over his duchy of Bouillon in 1606.

At the death of Henry IV, he entered the Council of Regency during the minority of

Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully and Concini, the latter a favourite of the queen dowager and regent Marie de' Medici
.

In April 1612 the Duke came to London as the ambassador of Marie de' Medici. He was received at court in state, and brought 100 or 250 followers. He lodgings at the

Whitehall Palace by the Duke of Lennox in a convoy of 30 coaches. The court was wearing black mourning for the death of Anne Catherine wife of Christian IV of Denmark.[7]

According to the Venetian ambassador, Antonio Foscarini, his instructions included an offer of a marriage between Princess Christine, the second Princess of France, and Prince Henry. Anne of Denmark told one of his senior companions that she would prefer Prince Henry married a French princess without a dowry than a Florentine princess with any amount of gold.[8]

He died in Sedan in 1623.

Issue

Henri married on 19 November 1591, Charlotte de La Marck, suo jure Duchess of Bouillon. They had a son who was born and died on 8 May 1594.

Henri married Elisabeth of Orange-Nassau on 15 April 1595.[9]

Children by Adèle Corret, mistress;

  • Henri Corret, ancestor of
    Théophile Corret de La Tour d'Auvergne
    .

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Le prix de la pairie: les évaluations du duché d'Albret (1655-1657), Christophe Blanquie, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, T. 50e, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 2003), 6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20530953.
  2. ^ Encarta Encyclopaedia Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "La Tour d'Auvergne. § Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne I". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.
  3. ^ Robert Jacobus Fruin (1861): Tien jaren uit den tachtigjarigen oorlog, 1588-1598
  4. ^ Mulder, Lodewijk (1869). "Iets over de veldtochten van prins Maurits: 1593". Het Vaandel: Tijdschrift voor Onderofficieren (in Dutch). 1869: 247–287.
  5. ^ J.F.J. van den Broek, Voor god en mijn koning: het verslag van kolonel Francisco Verdugo over zijn jaren als legerleider en gouverneur namens Filips II in Stad en Lande van Groningen, Drenthe, Friesland, Overijssel en Lingen (1581-1595) (2009), p. 26, 35. Assen: Uitgeverij Van Gorcum.
  6. ^ Pirenne, Henri (1925). Geschiedenis van België. Deel 4 (in Dutch). Gent: Samenwerkende Volksdrukkerij. pp. 205–207. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  7. ^ A. B. Hinds, HMC Downshire, vol. 3 (London, 1938), pp. 286-7.
  8. ^ Calendar State Papers Venice: 1610-1613, vol. 12, (London, 1905), nos. 516, 539
  9. ^ Pitts 2009, p. 282.

Sources

  • Pitts, Vincent J. (2009). Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age. Johns Hopkins University Press.282


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