Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars
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Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars (22 December 1598 – 21 January 1674) was the 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, and Prince of Talmond and Taranto.
He was the son of Louis II de La Trémoille.
Family
La Trémoille married his first cousin,
Marie Charlotte de la Trémoille, and Armand-Charles. Henri-Charles inherited his father's Breton holdings in 1661.[2]
Career
La Trémoille's father, Claude, had converted to
Huguenot rebellion at the siege of La Rochelle
in 1628. His wife sent the children to her relatives in the Netherlands, making sure they were brought up Calvinist. She also maintained a Reformed court with church services, something which her husband tolerated.
Following the siege, La Trémoille continued to serve in the French army, being wounded in action in Italy. Following that campaign, La Trémoille switched to a political career.
In 1668, Henri affected by the gout, left the businesses of his duchy to his elder son. He died on 21 January 1674, seventy-five years old, and was buried in Thouars.
Ancestry and claims
La Trémoille was the heir-general of
Frederick IV of Naples and his first wife Anne of Savoy, and succeeded to the Cypriot claims to the title of King of Jerusalem when his father died. He was the heir-general of Anne of Savoy, whose daughter Charlotte became in 1499 the de jure heiress of the claim of the Kings of Cyprus to the throne of Jerusalem. Since Frederick IV was the second son of Isabella of Clermont and Ferdinand I of Naples, he also succeeded to the Brienne claims to Kingdom of Jerusalem
of his distant cousin John Casimir of Poland at the latter's death 1672, uniting the successions of Brienne and of Cyprus to the de jure crown of Jerusalem.
References
- ISBN 978-1-5275-0701-2.
- ISBN 978-0-521-53314-0.