Henri II d'Orléans-Longueville

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Henri II d'Orléans, engraving by Paulus Pontius

Henri II. D'Orléans (also known as Henri II. De Valois-Longueville ) from the House of Orléans-Longueville (born April 6, 1595 - May 11, 1663 ) was Prince de France, Peer of France , Duke of Longueville , Estouteville and Coulommiers , sovereign prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin , Prince de Chatellaillon, Comte de Dunois , governor of Picardy , later Normandy .

Life

A son of Henri I. d'Orléans-Longueville and Katarina Gonzaga , he did not get to know his father, who died in Amiens two days before he was born . King Henry IV became his godfather.

Henri II led the French delegation in the negotiations on the Peace of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years' War . In his personal capacity as Prince of Neuchatel (Prince de Neuchâtel) the formal exclusion succeeded to the Old Confederacy from the Holy Roman Empire . As brother-in-law of Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé, Henri II was one of the main figures of the Fronde . After the first phase of the war had ended by the Treaty of Rueil (March 11, 1649), it was the arrest of the Great Condé, Longuevilles and the Prince de Conti by Jules Mazarin on January 14, 1650, which marked the second phase of the war ushered in the fronde des nobles .

family

Henri II married Louise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Soissons († 1637), daughter of Charles de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Soissons and Anne de Montaflie; her children were:

  • Marie (May 5, 1625 - June 16, 1707); ∞ Henry II of Savoy, Duke of Nemours ( House of Savoy ),
  • Louise (June 12, 1626 - June 6, 1628),
  • NN (January 19, 1634 - January 20, 1634),

On June 2, 1642, he married Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé († 1679), daughter of Henri II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé ; Children from this marriage were:

  • Charlotte-Louise (February 4, 1644 - April 30, 1645), Mademoiselle de Dunois
  • Jean Louis (January 12, 1646 - February 4, 1694), Duc de Longueville
  • Marie-Gabrielle (* 1646; † 1650)
  • Charles Paris (January 29, 1649 - June 12, 1672), Duc de Longueville, d'Estouteville, Souverain de Neufchâtel et de Valangin, Comte de Dunois et Comte de Saint-Pol

Charles Paris's actual father was the duke and writer François de La Rochefoucauld ; Henri II recognized the son anyway.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madame de Sévigné: Letters (letter 25 ff), insel taschenbuch 395, p. 79 ff
personal data
SURNAME Henri II d'Orléans-Longueville
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henri II. De Valois-Longueville; Henri II d'Orléans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peer of France, Duke of Longueville, Estouteville and Coulommiers, Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1595
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1663