Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé

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Anne Geneviève de Condé, Duchess of Longueville
Anne Geneviève de Condé, Duchess of Longueville

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé (born August 27, 1619 in Vincennes , † April 15, 1679 in Paris ) was the daughter of Henri II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé , and his wife Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency and was married to Henri II. D'Orléans-Longueville as Duchess of Longueville .

Life

Anne Geneviève was born in captivity (in the state prison in the Donjon of Vincennes ), where her parents had come to Concini because of opposition . As a young girl she was courted and involved in political affairs from an early age. Since 1642 she was married to Henry II Duke of Longueville and Prince of Neufchâtel (1595–1663) from the House of Orléans-Longueville , but fell in love with the Duke of La Rochefoucauld , whose intellect and artistic streak she valued. He used this relationship to influence Anne Geneviève's brother, the Great Condé .

She played a significant role in the first, but especially the second, Fronde . After disgrace and banishment from the court as well as the death of her beloved son Charles Paris, she turned to Jansenism .

Anne Geneviève was famous for her beauty.

She outlived her husband by 16 years. She died in Paris in 1679 at the age of 60 and was buried there in the Carmelite Convent called "Carmel de l'Incarnation" , where she had spent her final years (today No. 284 rue Saint-Jacques, 5th arrondissement ) . The monastery was closed during the French Revolution and the monastery grounds were parceled out.

Offspring and family

The sons of her marriage to the Duke of Longueville passed away

emerged. Charles Paris' actual father was La Rochefoucauld, but the child was recognized by the mother's husband.

After becoming Abbé d'Orléans Jesuit , Jean Louis, the older of the two brothers, who had succeeded his father as the ninth Duke of Longueville etc. in 1663, stepped back in 1668, making Anne Geneviève's illegitimate son Charles Paris the tenth Became a duke. Due to his death in a battle in 1673, however, the title fell back to his older brother Jean-Louis, with whose death in 1694 the house of Orléans-Longueville died out in the male line.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 300.
  2. ^ A b Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchess de Longueville. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bourbon-Condé, Anne Geneviève de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Longueville, Princess of Neufchatel
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH State prison in the donjon of Vincennes
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1679
Place of death Paris