Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars

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Henri III de la Trémoïlle

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

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

Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars
Born: 22 December 1598 Died: 21 January 1674
French nobility
Preceded by
Claude de La Trémoille
Duc de Thouars
25 October 1604 – 21 January 1674
Succeeded by
Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille